Isabelle Keßels
Tasks
- Advisor for didactics and e-learning at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
- Organisation of orientation tutorials at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics (with Dmitrij Schneider)
- Business Administration program coordination (with Verena Priller)
- Curriculum- and room-planning at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Work
| Since 10/2023 | Research Associate at the Dean of Studies’ Office, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 10/2017 – 10/2023 | Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
Education
| 10/2017 – 07/2025 | Doctoral Studies in Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Title of the dissertation: “Operationalising Theory-Construction: Groundwork for a Taxonomy of Thought Experiments on Knowledge” |
| 06/2019 – 05/2021 | Master of Business Administration in General Management, Düsseldorf Business School |
| 10/2014 – 04/2017 | Master of Arts in Philosophy, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster |
| 10/2009 – 07/2014 | “Akademiebrief der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf” (comparable to a Diploma), free Arts, Academy of Arts Düsseldorf |
| 10/2008 – 12/2013 | Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Art History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
Publications
2022 ‘Propriozeptive Kunst und Ready-mades.’ In Aufbruch der Kunst – Ende des Kunstbegriffs? Mythos Magazin (with Markus Schrenk)https://www.mythos-magazin.de/erklaerendehermeneutik/ik-ms_propriozeptive-kunst-und-ready-mades.pdf
2022 ‘Epistemic Frankfurt Cases against the Backdrop of the Original Frankfurt Case.’ In American Philosophical Quarterly (2022) 59 (3): 233-245.
2021 ‘Bonus Systems as Tools for ‘Managing’ Managers – the Behavioural Effects of Performance-Based Financial Rewards’ In: Philosophy of Management 21, 1-13.
2018 ‘The Place of Justification in the Fabric of Testimonial Knowledge’ In: Müller-Salo, Johannes; Reichardt, Jan-Ole (Hg.): Robert Audi – Critical Engagements. Springer Verlag, 71-97 (with David Lambert and Christian Quast).
Talks
09/2025 ‘We should typologise our thought experiments.’ GAP.12, Universität Düsseldorf.
04/2024 ‘The Safety Dilemma Put to the Test’ (with Paul Hasselkuß and Daian Bica) Online, XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series.
06/2023 ‘Strategies for Measuring the Epistemic Weight of our Intuitions on Hypothetical Cases’, The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy, Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, Universität Köln.
06/2023 ‘Thought Experiments in the Post-Gettier Era: Which Intuitions Should Have Epistemic Weight?’ Rhine-Ruhr Epistemology Meeting 2023, Universität Bonn.
06/2022 ‘The Need for a Taxonomy of Epistemological Thought Experiments.’ European Epistemology Network Meeting, University of Glasgow.
04/2019 ‘A Virtue Reliabilist Account of Epistemic Frankfurt Cases.’ Epistemology Workshop for Female PhD Students, HU and FU Berlin.
09/2018 ‘A Virtue Reliabilist Account of Epistemic Frankfurt Cases.’ GAP.10, Universität Köln.
09/2018 ‘Epistemic Frankfurt Cases against the Backdrop of the Original Frankfurt Case.’ SOPhiA 2018, Universität Salzburg.
11/2016 ‘The Place of Justification in the Fabric of Testimonial Knowledge.’ (with David Lambert and Christian Quast). Münster Lecture in Philosophy, Universität Münster.