Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy

Doctoral Researchers

BA MA

Boris Abramovic

Project: Ethics of Robotics and AI through the Lens of Art

Supervised by Mark Coeckelbergh and Friederike Eyssel

AoE: Art and Technolgy Ethics, Human-Robot Interaction, Anticipatory Technolgy Ethics

BA MA

Pedro Almeida Brandão

Project: Transdomain Occurrence of the Same Formal Objects in the Sciences

Supervised by Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers

AoE: Philosophy of Science, Mathematical Methods in the Sciences

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BA BA MA

Carolina Berrutti

Project: Ethics of Praise and Group Agents

Supervised by Niels de Haan and Hans Bernhard Schmid

AoE: Social Ontology, Philosophy of Action, Collective Ethics

Michael Boch

Project: Die transzendentale Logik des Wissens

Supervised by Kurt Appel und Alexander Schnell

AoE: Idealismus, Logikgeschichte, Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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PhD MA

Asmik Brutyan

Project: Commentator David: Philosophy and Logic

Supervised by George Karamanolis

AoE: History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy

BA MA

Cristina Chițu

Project: Toward a Unified Theory of Cyclic Time: A Typological Study based on Early Stoics and Early Hindu Philosophies

Supervised by Arno Böhler and George Karamanolis

AoE: History of the Philosophy of Time, Intercultural Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

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BA BA MA

Wolfgang Damoser

Project: Netflix Meets Nietzsche: On the Relationship Between Philosophy and Popular Culture

Supervised by Donata Romizi and Gerhard Donhauser

AoE: Public Philosophy, Popular Culture and Philosophy, Philosophy of Education

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BA MA

Felix Danowski

Project: Bureaucracy and Epistemic Injustice

Supervised by Hans Bernhard Schmid and Elisabeth Holzleithner

AoC: Political Philosophy, Political Epistemology

BA MA

Isis Daras

Project: The Shadows of Nihilism: Camus and Patočka on the Unreflective Life

Supervised by Sandra Lehmann and Michael Staudigl

AoE: Existentialism and Phenomenology

BA MA

Wolfgang Deutsch

Project: Die Armut unserer Technosozialen Freiheit. Versuch einer Re-Aktualisierung der Kritischen Theorie der Technik

Supervised by Mona Singer

AoE: Critical Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Science

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BA MA

Bishakha Dutta

Project: Honestum and Utile: Cicero's Guide to Ethical Choices in Economic Dilemmas

Supervised by George Karamanolis

AoE: Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Ethics, Hellenistic Philosophy

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BA MA

Emin Eke

Project: Grundriss einer Darlegung der Feindschaft: Prozesse der Verfeindung als zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand Kriegs- und Friedenstheoretischer Überlegungen

Supervised by Michael Staudigl

AoE: Philosophy of War, Phenomenology, Social Philosophy

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BA MA

Maria Fedorova

Project: Imagination in Psychedelic Theory

Supervised by Paulina Sliwa and Max Kölbel

AoE: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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BSc. MA

Arzu Formanek

Project: Robot Ethics for "Embodied AI": From Anthropomorphic Assumptions to Robotic Affordances in Description and Design

Supervised by Mark Coeckelbergh, Mark Bickhard and Sven Nyholm

AoE: Philosophy of Technology and Engineering, Ethics of AI and Robotics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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BA MA

Yaokun Fu

Project: Essence and Modality

Supervised by Benjamin Schnieder and Paulina Sliwa

AoE: Metaphysics, Modal Epistemology, Essence and Essentialism

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BA BA MA

Lukas Geizler

Project: Anthropozän, Kapitalozän, Chthuluzän – Technik- und Naturverständnisse in Zeiten des Klimawandels. Eine technikphilosophische Kritik

Supervised by Mona Singer

AoE: Philosophy of Technology, History and Philosophy of Science, Cartesianism and French Materialism

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Dott. Dott. Mag.

Christian Gemelli

Project: Mathematics and Cosmology in Proclus

Supervised by George Karamanolis

AoE: Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Plato and Aristotle, Late Antiquity

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BA MA

Alexander Gschwendtner

Project: Understanding Machine Understanding: Representation and Scientific Inference in Machine Learning

Supervised by Tarja Knuuttila

AoE: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Machine Learning

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Bakk.phil. BA MA

Ralf Gisinger

Project: Insistence of Ecology. Eco-Philosophical Assemblages in and after Deleuze/Guattari

Supervised by Arno Böhler

AoE: Philosophy of Nature and Ecology, Political and Social Philosophy, Poststructuralism and Critical Theory

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BA MSc.

Pia-Zoe Hahne

Project: Trust the Machine?: Conceptualising Trust in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Supervised by Mark Coeckelbergh

AoE: Philosophy of Technology, AI Ethics, Interdisciplinary Research

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Javad Hajialikhani

Project: Grounding Normativity

Supervised by Benjamin Schnieder

AoE: Metaethics, Metaphysics

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BA Mag.phil.

Anthony Hauninger

Project: Vom Wesen des Leidens und seiner Bewältigung

Supervised by Hisaki Hashi

AoE: Intercultural and Comparative Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology and Practical Philosophy

BSc. MA

Eva Hijlkema

Project: The Concept of Benevolence in Neoliberal Capitalism

Supervised by Angela Kallhoff

AoE: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Economics

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Dr. MSc.

Sebastian Horvat

Project: On Logic and its Autonomy from the Empirical

Supervised by Georg Schiemer

AoE: Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science

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BA MA

Wenzhen Jin

Project: On the art of persuasion in Aristotle and Han Fei

Supervised by George Karamanolis and Derong Pan

AoE: Rhetoric, Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Chinese Philosophy

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BA BA MA

Roman Jordan

Project: Logischer Empirismus und methodischer Konstruktivismus - zur Wissenschaftstheorie bei Wolfgang Stegmüller und Paul Lorenzen

Supervised by Christian Damböck

AoE: Philosophy of science

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Kanau Kobayashi

Project: Dogma und Mensch. Pierre Legendres “Dogmatische Anthropologie” als Philosophie der Institution im Ausgang von der Psychoanalyse

Supervised by Georg Stenger and Ulrike Kadi

AoE: Social Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Psychoanalytic Theory

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PhD MA

Aleksandra Kornienko

Project: Redefining Human Existence with Genome Editing and Digital Minds

Supervised by Tarja Knuuttila

AoE: Bioethics, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Science

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MSc. MSc.

Moritz Kriegleder

Project: Making Consciousness a Scientific Concept

Supervised by Tarja Knuuttila and Tomas Marvan

AoE: Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Neuroscience of Consciousness

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Ella Lazar

Project: Models of God's Alterity in the Kabbalistic Tradition and Their Implications for Continental Philosophy of Religion

Supervised by Michael Staudigl and Tzahi Weiss

AoE: Phenomenology, Jewish studies, Mysticism

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Boda Liu

Project: Das Leib-Ich: Reflexionen aus der Perspektive der generativen Phänomenologie

Supervised by Michael Staudigl

AoE: Phenomenology

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BA Bakk. phil. MA MA

Flora Löffelmann

Project: Expected to Explain - Philosophical Perspectives on Trans Person’s Access to Gender-affirming Healthcare in Austria

Supervised by Martin Kusch

AoE: Trans Philosophy, Social and Political Epistemology, Queer Phenomenology

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Mattia Mosconi

Project: Public Meaning and the Problem of Correctness: An Institutional Account

Supervised by Max Kölbel

AoE: Philosophy of Language

Caterina Mazziotti di Celso

Project: Kant on Welfare

Supervised by Felix Pinkert

AoE: History of Modern Philosophy, Kant, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

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BA MA

Sofia Abelha Meirelles

Project: On the Origins and Limits of Anti-exceptionalism about Logic

Supervised by Georg Schiemer

AoE: Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Science

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BA MA

Bogdan Mićić

Project: The Problem of Proper Names from a Pre-, Early-, and Middle-Byzantine Perspective

Supervised by Christophe Erismann

AoE: Platonism, Aristotelianism, Kant and German Idealism

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Leonie Möck

Project: Towards a Relational Hermeneutics of Technology with Donna Haraway

Supervised by Mark Coeckelbergh and Toni Loh

AoE: Philosophy of Technology, Hermeneutics, Feminist Philosophy

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Dr.iur BA MU

Madeleine Müler

Project: Charting Moral Frontiers: Individual Moral Duties and Societal Welfare at the Intersection of Moral and AI Enhancement

Supervised by Felix Pinkert

AoE: AI ethics, Moral Philosophy, Human Rights

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BA MA

Kasper Nowak

Project: Zeitlichkeiten in der Ära der Katastrophen

Supervised by Richard Heinrich and Michael Staudigl

AoE: Historical Epistemology, Philosophy of History, Social Philosophy

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BA MA

Jeanne Pang

Project: Gender non-conformity and Structural (Epistemic) Wrongs

Supervised by Paulina Sliwa and Aidan McGylnn

AoE: Feminist Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Ethics

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BA MA

Ralph Pöchtrager

Project: Historischer Materialismus. Grundlagentheoretische Re-Aktualisierungen im Lichte kontemporärer Probleme sozialer Reproduktion und historischer Transformation kapitalistischer Gesellschaften

Supervised by Erik Vogt

AoC: Critical theories (especiallly Marxism), Political and Social Philosophy, Social Ontology

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BA MA

Patrick Pradler

The Synthetic View of Mathematics

Supervised by Georg Schiemer

AoE: Philosophy of Mathematics, Kant's Theoretical Philosophy

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BA MA MA

Björn Puhr

Project: Die Zeit der Stille

Supervised by Michael Staudigl and Jocelyn Benoist

AoE: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy

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BA BS MA Mag.art.

Philipp Quell

Project: Experience and Space: Founding the Transcendental Bodily

Supervised by Arno Böhler and Michael Staudigl

AoE: (French) Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, 20th/21th Century Continental Philosophy (New Materialism, Queer Theory

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BA MA

Apinya Radike

Project: Understanding and Promoting Refugee Autonomy

Supervised by Daniel Sharp

AoE: Migration Ethics, Autonomy, Refugee Ethics

BS MA MA

Mani Rashtipour

Project: A Non-Quantificational Account of Generic Generalizations

Supervised by Max Kölbel

AoE: Philosophy of Language, Formal Semantics

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BA MA

Miguel de la Riva

Project: Style of Reasoning: On the History of a Concept between Science, Art, and
World View

Supervised by Martin Kusch

AoE: History of Philosophy of Science, Public Philosophy

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BA MA

Andres Rodriguez Rojas

Project: Evidence one ought to have: the nature and the formulation of the epistemic norms of evidence gathering

Supervised by Max Kölbel

AoE: Epistemology, Zetetic Epistemology, Philosophy of Language

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Irene Salzmann

Project: Walter Benjamins "politische Charakterologie" als kritische Lesart der Konservativen Revolution

Supervise by Martin Kusch and Dietlind Hüchtker

AoE: Political and Social Philosophy, Critical Theory, History of Philosophy

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BA MA

Manu Sharma

Project: Dancing in Ashes: Coloniality, Capture, and the Making of Modern Nostalgic

Supervised by Martin Kusch and Michael Staudigl

AoE: Colonialism Studies, Phenomenology, Memory Studies

BA MA MA

Jie Shen

Project: Das Unendliche in der Zeit: Die sinnliche Dimension und die Konstitution geschichtlicher Welt in Hegels Ästhetik

Supervised by Violetta Waibel and Jure Zovko

AoE: Philosophy of Art (Hegel), Practical Philosophy

Mag.phil. MA

Mira Magdalena Sickinger

Project: The Pragmatics of Deep Jokes

Supervised by Richard Heinrich

AoE: Philosophy of Language, Analytic Aesthetics, Philosophy of Humour

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BA MA

Stefan Simma

Project: Der Weg Plotins zum Einen – Genese und Gestalt der Prinzipienlehre in der platonisch-mittelplatonischen Tradition

Supervised by George Karamanolis

AoE: Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Plotinus), Neoplatonism and Henology, German Idealism (Schelling)

BA MA MA

Daniel Reid Smith

Project: Phenomenology of Tiredness, Task-Induced Fatigue, and Exhaustion

Supervised by Sandra Lehmann and Hans Bernhard Schmid

AoE: Phenomenology, Social Theory, Philosophy of Sport

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BA MA

Emelia Stanley

Project: Logical Conventionalism as Coordinated Equilibrium

Supervised by Georg Schiemer

AoE: Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy of Science

BA MA

Luca Steinkrauss

Project: A Non-propositional Approach to Mental Representation

Supervised by Max Kölbel

AoE: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

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BA MA

Alexander Strupp

Project: The Role of Fantasy in the Anthropology and Cultural Philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset

Supervised by Johann Schelkshorn and Ralf Becker

AoE: Philosophy of Culture and History, Philosophical Anthropology and Conceptions of the Human Being, Social and Political Philosophy

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BA BA MA

Lisa Tragbar

Project: Francisco de Vitoria's Ius post bellum

Supervised by Angela Kallhoff

AoE: Just War Theory, History of Philosophy, Peace Ethics

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BA MA

Nianzu Tu

Project: Mineness and Individualization: Temporality, Authenticity, and Phenomenality in Being and Time

Supervised by Hans Bernhard Schmid

AoE: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Social Ontology

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BSc. MSc. MA

Alicia Maria Wach

Project: Ethic of Blaming Group Agents

Supervised by Niels de Haan and Hans Bernhard Schmid

AoE: Climate Ethics, Collective Ethics, Interdisciplinarity, Social Ontology

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MA MLitt.

Eric Wallace

Project: What is the Role of Semantics in Ontology

Supervised by Max Kölbel and Julien Murzi

AoE: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics

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BA MA MA

Peihong Xie

Project: Conceptually Engineering Grounding

Supervised by Benjamin Schnieder and Max Kölbel

AoE: Metaphysics, Metaphilosophy, Applied Ontology

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BA MLitt.

Yue Yang

Project: The hidden dialogue between Porphyry and Iamblichus in Proclus’ commentary on Plato’s Timaeus

Supervised by George Karamanolis

AoE: Ancient Philosophy, Neoplatonism, Late Antiquity

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M.Phil.

Bojin Zhu

Project: Conceptual Engineering Reimagined

Supervised by Paulina Sliwa and Max Kölbel

AoE: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind

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BA MA

Emils Zavelis

Project: Nonclassical Metatheories for Nonclassical Logics

Supervised by Georg Schiemer

AoE: Philosophy of Logic, Logic

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