The project’s principal investigator is C. Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum.
Her research interests span metaphysics, logic, philosophy of perception, and history of philosophy – all with a special focus on areas concerning language – and, of course, philosophy of language itself.
Naomi’s career as a philosopher began when she took a sabbatical from her professional life as a conference interpreter, translator and reviser from 2005 – 2007 to study PPE (Politics, Philosophy and – nominally – Economics) at Wadham College, Oxford. Graduating BA, she returned to Vienna for her PhD in philosophy. Before becoming a Hertha-Firnberg Fellow, she held positions as a lecturer at the University of Vienna and as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which she rejoined from October 2022 – July 2023 as a researcher on the Tichý project team, and from August – December 2023 as a researcher on the team of the Divine Names and Modality project.
The present project took her back to Oxford as an academic visitor from January – June 2023. During her first month in Oxford she participated in the European Union’s Erasmus+ staff mobility programme (grant application via the University of Vienna). She is currently a lecturer at the department of philosophy of the University of Vienna.
For her publications, see Philpapers; Academia.edu; and Google Scholar.
For some activities, see her profile at the University of Vienna.
As a Hertha-Firnberg Fellow, she had a mentor, Max Kölbel.