I am a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. My main research interests are in philosophy of language, in particular, implicatures and presuppositions, the debate on relativism and contextualism, indexicality and context sensitivity, and the semantic-pragmatic divide in general. I also have research interests in epistemology, especially knowledge and belief ascriptions and introspection principles.

Starting October 2024, I will be Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship.

I took up my position in Düsseldorf in October 2023. Before that, I was Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) at Bielefeld University, substitute professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) at University of Cologne, lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, postdoctoral researcher at Universität Hamburg and doctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. I've also spent some time at various other universities around Europe, including LOGOS in Barcelona, Arché in St Andrews, NIP in Aberdeen, the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, and Universität Wien.

I am a Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Human Abilities and a member of the InFraMinds Project on the Insincerity for Fragmented Minds. I am also a coordinator of the DFG research network The Semantics and Metasemantics of Context-Sensitive Language and a (co-)organizer of the following workshops.

News

LEAVE Starting October 2024, I will be Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship.
PROJECT Katharina Felka (Graz, Austria) and I have been awarded a grant by the German Research Foundation for the project In a Roundabout Way. Theory and Practice of Indirect Communication.
PROJECT Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld) and I are Principal Investigators of the DFG funded project Open Texture As a Source of Semantic Creativity, which is part of the DFG funded CRC Linguistic Creativity in Communication.
HUMBOLDT HOST Junhyo Lee has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship and will join my team at HHU Düsseldorf for two years. I look forward to working with Junhyo!
PAPER My paper On Proper Presupposition is out now in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
PAPER Alexander's and my paper On Deniability is now out in Mind.
PAPER Annina's and my paper Agentive Duality Reconsidered is out now in Philosophical Studies.

Contact

Julia Zakkou
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Philosophie
Universitätsstrasse 1
40225 Duesseldorf
Germany