Researcher Profile

Dr Margot Strohminger

Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, School of Philosophy

Areas of expertise: epistemology; philosophy of mind; philosophical methodology; aesthetics.
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3774-0339
Phone: +61 3 9230 8507
Email: margot.strohminger@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

I joined the School of Philosophy in July 2020, where I am currently Senior Lecturer. I moved to ACU from the University of Oxford, where I was Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy and Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College (2018-20). Before that I held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp (2014-16), followed by the University of Salzburg (2016-17), and the Humboldt University of Berlin (2017-18). I obtained my PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews in 2014, as a member of the Arché Research Centre. I welcome proposals from HDR students relating to the imagination, modal knowledge, and various topics in epistemology and the philosophy of mind more generally.

Select publications:

• "Imaginative Hopes and Other Desires" (with Kyle Blumberg), Analysis 85 (2025) (SI: Imagination), 3-16
• The Epistemic Role of the Imagination", in The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3^rd ed.) (2025), edited by Kurt Sylvan, Jonathan Dancy, Matthias Steup, and Ernest Sosa, Vol. 2, 388-90, Wiley Blackwell
• Munro, D., & Strohminger, M. (2021). Are we free to imagine what we choose? Synthese 199, 11847–64.
• Strohminger, M. (2021). Two ways of imagining Galileo’s experiment. In C. Badura & A. Kind (Eds.), Epistemic Uses of Imagination, 202–17. London: Routledge.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2019). Knowledge of objective modality. Philosophical Studies 176 (5), 1155–1175.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2018). Moderate modal skepticism. In M.A. Benton, J. Hawthorne, & D. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology, 302321. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Strohminger, M., & Yli-Vakkuri, J. (2017). The epistemology of modality. Analysis 77 (4), 825–838.
• Strohminger, M. (2015). Perceptual knowledge of nonactual possibilities. Philosophical Perspectives, 29 (1), 363–375.

Projects:

• Co-Investigator, Discovery Grant on Virtual Reality and Knowing What It's Like, (with Yuri Cath [PI], Richard Skarbez, Mary Walker and Tim Bayne), Australian Research Council, 2026-28, $536 635
• 2018-2020, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission. Counterfactual knowledge from the imagination. 165 598.80 EUR
• 2017-2018, Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 75 600 EUR

Appointments:

• Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University, 2020-
• Marie Curie Fellow and Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy/St Cross College, University of Oxford, 2018-2020
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2017-2018
• Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy (KGW), University of Salzburg, 2016-2017
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, 2014-2016

International Journal review panel:

Journal reviewer (selection): American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Synthese

Public engagement:

• Knowing by Imagining a Hypothetical Scenario, The Junkyard Blog
• Commentary on Explaining Imagination, The Junkyard Blog