Welcome to the home page of Klaus Ladstaetter. I was born and raised in Sankt Veit/Glan, a small city in Austria's southern province of Carinthia that borders Italy and Slovenia. For my undergraduate studies I attended the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, the capital of Austria's province of Styria. I graduated with the Master of Arts degree with a major in philosophy and a minor in German philology. In 1997 I enrolled in the philosophy program of the State University of New York at Albany to pursue my graduate studies. Subsequently, I received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from SUNY at Albany. My primary area of interest is theories of truth and related questions, as they arise in the philosophy of language, in the philosophy of logic, and in metaphysics. I also have interests in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and the history of modern and 20th century Western philosophy. Additionally, topics in ethics have recently caught my attention. I have published articles on the correspondence theory and on the minimal theory of truth. The papers were presented at international congresses of philosophy in Europe. Before coming to Washburn as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, I held visiting faculty positions at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, and at Siena College in Loudonville, New York. My contact information at Washburn is: Web: www.washburn.edu/cas/philosophy/ |