Pia Schneider — PhD in Philosophy

Contact

Email: 
pia_schneider[at]berkeley[dot]edu


About

I am a philosopher located in the Bay Area. I have recently completed my PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Before the PhD, I did an MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, and a BA in German Studies and Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. My dissertation is on Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy, but I am also working on topics in Aesthetics, Feminism, and Technology.



Brief CV

Education
- PhD in Philosophy , University of California, Berkeley, May 2026
- MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, 2016
- BA in German Studies, minor in Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 2013

Stipends, Fellowships, and Awards
Travel Stipend for International Simone de Beauvoir Conference, May 2026
Travel Stipend (covering registration fees), American Philosophy Association Pacific Division, April 2026
Travel Stipend for NAKS Biennial, October 2025
Berkeley Connect Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2025-26
Summer Dissertation Writing Grant, UC Berkeley, Summer 2023
Summer Stipend, Freie Universität, Summer 2023
Travel Stipend for Summer School on the History of Space, Max Planck Institute, Summer 2023
Travel Stipend, American Philosophy Association, Spring 2023
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, Spring 2021
Summer Stipend, UC Berkeley, Summer 2020
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2019–2020
Travel Stipend for Summer School on Kant, Mainz, Summer 2019
Travel Stipend for Conference on Matter Theory on the Enlightenment, Duke, November 2018
Travel Stipend for Summer School on Logic, Stockholm, November 2018
Summer Stipend, University of Haifa, Summer 2018
Summer Stipend, UC Berkeley, Summer 2017
Ralph W. Church Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2016–2017
Teaching

As Primary Instructor at UC Berkeley:

Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Kant on Reason, Summer 2026
Aesthetics, Summer 2025
Individual Morality and Social Justice,
Summer 2022
Individual Morality and Social Justice,  
Summer 2021

As Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley:

Modern Philosophy (with Kristin Primus), Spring 2025
Ancient Philosophy (with John MacFarlane), Fall 2024
Phenomenology (with Joseph Kassman-Tod), Summer 2024
Metaphysics
(with Geoff Lee), Spring 2024
Philosophical Methods (with Geoff Lee), Fall 2023
Modern Philosophy (with Kristin Primus), Spring 2023
Heidegger (with Katharina Kaiser), Fall 2022
Hegel (with Andreja Novakovic), Spring 2022
Feminism and Philosophy
(with Olivia Bailey), Fall 2021
Kant (with Daniel Warren), Spring 2021
Aesthetics (with Alva Noë), Fall 2020
Introduction to Logic (with Wes Holliday), Summer 2019
Leibniz (with Tim Crockett), Spring 2019
Ancient Philosophy (with Tim Clarke), Fall 2018
Introduction to Logic (with Wes Holliday), Summer 2018
Knowledge and its Limits (with Wes Holliday), Spring 2018
Individual Morality and Social Justice (with Hans Sluga), Fall 2017
Introduction to Logic (with Richard Lawrence), Summer 2018
Talks

Upcoming:

• How Sensibile Form Matters, PhilForum, UC Berkeley, September 2026
• Grasping Incongruence, 1st Munich Wokshop in Early Modern Philosophy, November 2026

Past:

• Grasping Incongruence, Graduate Conference “Classical German and Early Analytic Philosophy,” Stuttgart, July 2026
• Repetition, Reproduction, International Simone de Beauvoir Conference, Klagenfurt/ Celovec, May 2026
• How Sensibility’s Form Matters, Pacific APA, Online, April 2026
• Constructing A Counterpart, NAKS Biennial, Montreal, October 2025
Kant’s Conception of Form in the Inaugural Dissertation, Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Workshop on Kant’s Philosophy, UC Berkeley, May 2025
How Sensibility’s Form Matters, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, UMichigan, Ann Arbor, April 2025
Kant’s Conception of Form in the Inaugural Dissertation, Berkeley History of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, April 2025
Repetition, Reproduction, Working Group with Alva Noë, UC Berkeley, March 2025

How Sensibility’s Form Matters, Graduate Student Colloquium, UC Berkeley, December 2024
How Sensibility’s Form Matters, Workshop on Kant and Hegel, Stanford, November 2024 (invited)
How Sensibility’s Form Matters, PhilForum, UC Berkeley, October 2024  (invited)
• Constructing a Counterpart, Working Group with Alva Noë, UC Berkeley, October 2024
Comments on I. Romero’s Do Inaccuracies Matter in Fiction, Berkeley-London Graduate Conference, UCL, May 2024
Kant’s Criticism of Leibniz in the Amphiboly, Dissertation Seminar, UC Berkeley, Spring 2024
Kant’s Criticism of Leibniz in the Amphiboly, PhilGem, UC Berkeley, November 2023
Kant’s Criticism of Leibniz in the Amphiboly, Central APA, Denver, Symposium, February 2023
Constructing a Counterpart, Dissertation Seminar, UC Berkeley, Fall 2022
Reproduction One and Two, Working Group with Alva Noë, UC Berkeley, Fall 2022
Conscience in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Guest Lecture for A. Novakovic’s course on Hegel, UC Berkeley,  Spring 2022
Kant’s Conception of Space, PhilForum, UC Berkeley, Fall 2021 (invited)
Kant’s Account of Beauty and Contemporary Art,  PhilForum, UC Berkeley, Spring 2021 (invited)
Kant’s Account of Beauty and Contemporary Art,  Wollheim Society, UC Berkeley, Spring 2021
Carnap’s Problem for the Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus, Haifa Logic Group, University of Haifa, Summer 2018
Quantifying Epistemic Value, 2nd Munich Graduate Workshop, LMU Munich, Summer 2016