Dr. Nadja-Mira Yolcu

Nadja-Mira Yolcu is working at Heidelberg University since February 2026 (LS for Theoretical Philosophy, Prof. Dr. Jochen Briesen).

Prior to that, until January 2026, she has been an academic staff member at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Language. From July 2018 until June 2022 she was a member and doctoral student in the research project “Mind the Meaning: The Philosophy of Psychological Expressivism”. After her undergraduate studies in philosophy (minor: psychology) at the University of Heidelberg, she earned a BPhil in Philosophy (master’s degree) from the University of Oxford in the summer of 2017. During her studies in Heidelberg and Oxford, she received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Ms Yolcu’s research interests focus mainly on philosophy of language and epistemology. In her dissertation project, Ms Yolcu aims to give an (expressivist) analysis of utterances of negative self-ascriptions of mental states. The dissertation was submitted in December 2022 and successfully defended in April 2024. Her teaching focuses on theoretical philosophy, mainly philosophy of language and epistemology. 

accepted:  “Expressing the Absence of Emotion” (for special issue “Expressive Acts” of Review of Philosophy and Psychology).

2026:  “Negative Avowals and Expressing Absence”, Synthese. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05357-0

2025:  “Moores Paradox”. WSK Semantik & Pragmatik, Dictionary, in German (with W. Freitag). https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/wsk/entry/wsk_id3d491af0-a869–42ad-bed9–6a60e6edf33a/html

2024: "Expression and Negation: An Expressivist Account of Disavowals”. Dissertation, University of Mannheim Library.

2022: “Vindicating Avowal Expressivism: A Note on Rosenthal's Performance-Conditional Equivalence Thesis”. Phenomenology and Mind, https://journals.openedition.org/phenomenology/1107

2021: “An expressivist solution to Moorean paradoxes”, gemeinsam mit Wolfgang Freitag. Synthese, Januar 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-03012-4

2019: Edmund Gettier. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? / Ist gerechtfertigte, wahre Überzeugung Wissen? Herausgabe und Übersetzung gemeinsam mit Marc Andree Weber. Reclam. 

2015: „Eine kurze Einleitung in die Freiburger Philosophie”, gemeinsam mit Katharina Kraus. Chinesische Übersetzung in: Huang Yusheng (ed.), Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy vol. 1 no. 2, Tsinghua University, China.