Researcher Profile

Dr Margot Strohminger

Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, School of Philosophy

Areas of expertise: epistemology; philosophy of mind; philosophical methodology; aesthetics.
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Provisional
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3774-0339
Phone: +61 3 9230 8507
Email: margot.strohminger@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Melbourne Campus
Margot Strohminger has been Lecturer in the School of Philosophy since July 2020. She moved to ACU from the University of Oxford, where she was Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy and Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College (2018-20). Before that she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp (2014-16), followed by the University of Salzburg (2016-17), and the Humboldt University of Berlin (2017-18). She obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews in 2014, where she was a member of the Arché Research Centre. Her research focuses on modal knowledge, the nature of the imagination, and thought experiments.

Select publications:

• Munro, D., & Strohminger, M. (2021). Are we free to imagine what we choose? Synthese 199, 11847–64.
• Strohminger, M. (2021). Two ways of imagining Galileo’s experiment. In C. Badura & A. Kind (Eds.), Epistemic Uses of Imagination, 202–17. London: Routledge.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2019). Knowledge of objective modality. Philosophical Studies 176 (5), 1155–1175.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2018). Moderate modal skepticism. In M.A. Benton, J. Hawthorne, & D. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology, 302321. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2017). The epistemology of modality. Analysis 77 (4), 825–838.
• Strohminger, M. (2015). Perceptual knowledge of nonactual possibilities. Philosophical Perspectives, 29 (1), 363–375.

Projects:

• 2018-2020, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission. Counterfactual knowledge from the imagination. 165 598.80 EUR
• 2017-2018, Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 75 600 EUR

Appointments:

• Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University, 2020-
• Marie Curie Fellow and Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy/St Cross College, University of Oxford, 2018-2020
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2017-2018
• Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy (KGW), University of Salzburg, 2016-2017
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, 2014-2016

International Journal review panel:

Journal reviewer (selection): American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Synthese

Public engagement:

• Knowing by Imagining a Hypothetical Scenario, The Junkyard Blog
• Commentary on Explaining Imagination, The Junkyard Blog