Mark Bowker is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at Bielefeld University. He is currently working on issues at the intersection of Philosophy and Psychology, particularly the relation between language, stereotypes, and prejudice. Other research interests include semantic underdetermination, context-sensitivity, generic generalisations, indexicals, fiction, and experimental philosophy.
His PhD in Philosophy was awarded in 2016 by the University of St Andrews, where he was supervised primarily by Patrick Greenough and Andy Egan. He was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellow at Lund University, Sweden, supervised by Martin Jönsson; an external researcher on the InFraMinds Project at University College Dublin; a Visiting Scholar at Andrei Cimpian's Cognitive Development Lab, NYU; a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Fellow at LOGOS, University of Barcelona, supervised by Manuel García-Carpintero; Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities, London; a Government of Ireland Fellow in the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, supervised by Maria Baghramian; and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, supervised by Kristina Liefke.