Stefan Lukits, Sessional
Office Hours
2025W term 2: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:15-6:15pm, location by appt | Also available by appointmentResearch Area
Education
M.Sc. (mathematics), University of Graz
Ph.D. (philosophy), University of British Columbia
About
I am a sessional lecturer in philosophy at the University of British Columbia and on faculty in the mathematics department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. I do research in formal epistemology (quantitative partial belief representation) with an additional interest in Nietzsche studies and legal positivism. I primarily teach Philosophy and Literature (PHIL 375), pursuing topics such as hermeneutics and Central European writers; and Philosophy of Law (PHIL 338) mostly on legal positivism and Marxist approaches to law.
Teaching
Publications
“Apology and Forgiveness.” Dialogue (2026). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217325000125
“The Renunciation Paradox: an Analysis of Vulnerability and Intimacy in Nietzsche’s Anti-Humanism.” Philosophia (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00431-6
“Symmetry and Partial Belief Geometry.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11:79 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00398-x
“Subordinating Trust to Text: A Hermeneutic Reversal.” Teoria (Special Issue The Concept of Trust, edited by Adriano Fabris) 39:2 (2019) 133–146.
“Maximum Entropy and Probability Kinematics Constrained by Conditionals.” Entropy (Special Issue Maximum Entropy Applied to Inductive Logic and Reasoning, edited by Jürgen Landes and Jon Williamson) 17:4 (2015) 1690–1700. https://doi.org/10.3390/e17041690
“The Principle of Maximum Entropy and a Problem in Probability Kinematics.” Synthese 191:7 (2014) 1409–1431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0335-8
“Carnap’s Conventionalism in Geometry.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 88 (2013) 123–138. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210508_007
“Narrativity and the Symbolic Vacuum.” Philosophy and Theology 23:1 (2011) 167-183. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol20112318