Maximilian Tegtmeyer Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Profile

Department of Philosopy 

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794

(631) 632-7570

Email: maximilian.tegtmeyer@stonybrook.edu

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, September 2025-present
Lecturer, NUS College, National University of Singapore; Courtesy appointment, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore,
December 2022-August 2025

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. in Philosophy, August 2022
Leipzig University, Research Centre for Analytic German Idealism (FAGI), Visiting Doctoral Fellow, May-July 2020 (remote) & December 2021-May 2022 (in person)
King’s College London, M.Phil.Stud. in Philosophy, January 2015
Heidelberg University, B.A. in Philosophy, Political Science & Economics, December 2011
National University of Singapore, Visiting Student, August 2010-May 2011

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Philosophy of Mind

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Epistemology

PUBLICATIONS

“What Self?” Analysis (forthcoming). (https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf093; Critical Notice of Anil  Gomes’s The Practical Self) 

“Kant’s Idealism as Radicalization of Empiricism” Studi Lockiani. Ricerche Sull’Età Moderna Vol 6.  (2025). (https://doi.org/10.4454/sl.6-1265) 

“Distinguishing Failed from Incomplete Knowledge” Empirical Reason and Sensory Experience, eds.  O. Beck & M. Vuletić, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer (2024). (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031- 52231-4; Comment on Andrea Kern’s “The Knowledge View of Perception”) 

“Sensibility, Understanding, and Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: From Epistemic  Compositionalism to Epistemic Hylomorphism” Review of Metaphysics Vol. 77, No. 1 (2023).  (https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a906812; Winner of Review of Metaphysics 2022 Dissertation  Essay Contest) 

“Overcoming Epistemic Compositionalism by Appreciating Kant’s Insight: Skepticism, Givenness,  and Mind-Independence in the Transcendental Deduction” Synthese Vol. 200, No. 44 (2022).  (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03557-6)
 

DISSERTATION

Knowledge, Objectivity, and Self-Consciousness: A Kantian Articulation of Our Capacity to Know Committee: Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago), Stephen Engstrom, John McDowell (chair),  Michael Thompson, Jennifer Whiting

AWARDS & HONORS 

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2023/24 (Winner), NUS College, National University of  Singapore, 2024 

The Review of Metaphysics 2022 Dissertation Essay Contest (Winner), Philosophy Education  Society, 2023 

Office of Graduate Studies, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Deans  Tuition Scholarship, 2022 

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-Term Research Grant, 2021-22 European Studies Centre, University of Pittsburgh, Klinzing Dissertation Grant, 2020 Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award (Nominee), University of Pittsburgh 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 University of Pittsburgh Graduate Fellowship, 2014-15 & 2017-19 

Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg conference funding, 2018 Humanities Centre, University of Pittsburgh conference funding, 2017  

Excellence Initiative (ZUK 63), University of Tübingen workshop funding, 2017 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship, 2013-14 

Department of Philosophy, King’s College London Graduate Bursary, 2012-13 

Baden-Württemberg Foundation Scholarship, 2010-11 

PRESENTATIONS (* indicates refereed presentations) 

“A Kantian Dissolution of the Dilemma of Inference” 

Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, The University of Tokyo, Japan, July 2024 Research Colloquium, Leipzig University, Germany, June 2024 

Research Seminar, Northeaster University London, UK, April 2024  

Research Colloquium, National University of Cordoba, Argentina, September 2023 (remote) “The Sui Generis Form of our Capacity to Know” 

Research Colloquium, Leipzig University, Germany, April 2022 

Workshop “Our Animal Capacities,” Human Abilities Centre, Berlin, Germany, March 2022 “Self-Consciousness and Causation in Descartes’ Meditations” 

Research Colloquium, American University in Cairo, Egypt, March 2022 

Commentary on Andrea Kern’s “The Knowledge View of Perception” 

Conference “Perceptual Experience and Empirical Reason (PEER),” University of Pittsburgh,  USA, December 2021 (remote) 

“On the Systematic and Historical Relation of Conant’s Two Varieties of Skepticism” Conference “The varieties of anti-skepticism, from past to present,” University of Navarra,  Pamplona, Spain, September 2021 (remote) * 

“Cassam and Kant on Berkeley’s Puzzle” 

Workshop “Vice Epistemology. Recent Contributions by Quassim Cassam,” Autonomous  University of Madrid, Spain, April 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic) * “Givenness, Perception, and Self-Consciousness” 

Conference “Demystifying the Given”, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing,  China, October 2019 *

“Objective Experience and Self-Consciousness,” 

MindGrad Conference “Perception and Perceptual Knowledge”, University of Warwick, UK,  December 2018 * 

Conference “Grounding the Space of Reasons: The Question of First Principles in German  Idealism and Today,” University of Freiburg, Germany, June 2018 

“Two Paths into Nihilism: On Schopenhauer’s and Early Heidegger’s Appropriations of Kant” Tilburg Philosophy Summer School, Tilburg University, Netherlands, August 2015 * “The Principle Thought of German Idealism and the Myth of the Given” 

Conference “Hegel and McDowell”, Federal University of Minas Gerais & Federal University of  Ouro Preto, Brazil, May 2015 * 

Commentary on Ethan Jerzak’s “Evolving Realism” 

London-Berkeley Graduate Conference, Institute of Philosophy, London, UK, May 2014 * “What Mood Tells that Assertion can Fail to Communicate: Interpreting Intentionality in Heidegger’s  Being und Time” 

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, University of  Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2013 * 

Commentary on Martijn Wallage’s “Two Conceptions of Experience and Autonomy” Graduate Workshop “Natürliche Zwecke und gute Gründe,” University of Potsdam, Germany, July  2013 

TEACHING 

As Instructor of Record 

Philosophy of Mind, Stony Brook University, Spring 2026 (42 students) 

Historical Introduction to Western Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Spring 2026 (54  students) 

19th Century Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Fall 2025 (37 students) 

Concepts of the Person, Stony Brook University, Fall 2025 (99 students) 

Making Connections: What Can I Know?, National University of Singapore, Fall 2024 (10 students) & Spring 2024 (4 students) 

Thinking with Writing: Conceptions of Human Nature, National University of Singapore, Spring  2025 (22 Students), Fall 2024 (10 students), Spring 2024 (12 students), Fall 2023 (23 Students) & Spring 2023 (23 students) 

Reading Group, National University of Singapore: An Anthology, Simone Weil, Fall 2024 (10  Students) & The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, Fall 2023 (10 Students) 

History of Modern Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2018 (11 students)

As Teaching Assistant (* indicates writing intensive courses) 

Concepts of Human Nature, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2021 (26 students)*, Spring 2021 (60  students), Fall 2020 (27 students)* & Fall 2016 (59 students) 

Introduction to Philosophical Problems, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2020 (59 students) History of Ancient Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2019 (31 students)* Political Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2017 (59 students) 

History of Modern Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016 (61 students) Introduction to Ethics, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2015 (61 students)

Kant’s Moral Philosophy, King’s College London, Spring 2014 (8 students) 

Introduction to Epistemology, King’s College London, Fall 2013 (3 students) 

Undergraduate Advising 

Honors Thesis Co-Advisor: Tan Ying Hui, Valerie (National University of Singapore) 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 

Conference “Grounding the Space of Reasons: The Question of First Principles in German Idealism  and Today,” Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany, June 2018  (co-organizer) 

Conference “Reconsidering Hegel’s Logic,” University of Pittsburgh, April 2017 (co-organizer) Workshop “Models of Human and Divine Intellect in Kant and Hegel: Intersections between  Transcendental Philosophy and Rational Theology,” University of Tübingen, Germany, February 2017 (co-organizer) 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & SERVICE 

Graduate Placement Director, Stony Brook University, 2025 

Research Mentor Training, Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, Stony  Brook University, 2025 

Principal Investigator, “Exploring the Effect of NUS College’s Thinking with Writing Course on  Student’s Critical Thinking Abilities: A Mixed Methods Study”, 2023 

Referee for teaching peer-review, National University of Singapore, 2023 

Course Design Institute, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of  Singapore, 2023 

Referee for Topoi, 2022; Hegel Bulletin, 2024 

Referee for Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, 2017, 2019, 2020 Achievement in Pedagogy Badge, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2020 Co-organizer, Hegel’s Science of Logic reading group, University of Pittsburgh, 2015-19 Organizer, Outside speaker colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 2017-19 

Co-editor, Special issue Revista Electronica Estudios Hegelianos on “Hegel and the Philosophy of  John McDowell,” published December 2018 

Member, Modern Philosophy search committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2018 

Organizer, Student-Faculty Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 2015-17 

Student representative, Student-Faculty Liaison Committee, King’s College London, 2013-14 Organizer, Pragmatism reading group, King’s College London, 2012-14 

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

German: Native English: Fluent Spanish: Very good 

French: Good Ancient Greek: Good Latin: Basic