Inga Bones has been a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2018 and works primarily on topics of applied philosophy of language and philosophical methodology. Since 2020, Inga has also been working as a trainer for the Forum für Streitkultur (Forum for Dispute Culture). Since 2022, she has been completing further training as a philosophical practitioner at the University of Vienna. After studying philosophy, German and linguistics in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, Inga completed her doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation project on vagueness and the Sorites Paradox. Her book “How To Swim in Sinking Sands: The Sorites Paradox and the Nature and Logic of Vague Language” was published by Brill|mentis in 2021. A book review was published in 2021 in Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (Nr. 75, Heft 3). As part of her research project on hate speech, Inga organised a conference funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in 2021, the contributions of which were published in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy in 2023. In her teaching, Inga is responsible for the Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy. Her other courses include topics from the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology.