Doctoral Researchers
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
Cristina Chițu
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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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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Felix Danowski
Project: Bureaucracy and Epistemic Injustice
Supervised by Hans Bernhard Schmid and Elisabeth Holzleithner
AoC: Political Philosophy, Political Epistemology
Isis Daras
Project: The Shadows of Nihilism: Uncritical Submission to Meaning in Camus and Patočka
Supervised by Sandra Lehmann and Michael Staudigl
AoE: Existentialism and Phenomenology
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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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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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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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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Yaokun Fu
Project: Essence and Modality
Supervised by Benjamin Schnieder and Paulina Sliwa
AoE: Metaphysics, Modal Epistemology, Essence and Essentialism
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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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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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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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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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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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Anthony Hauninger
Project: Vom Wesen des Leidens und seiner Bewältigung
Supervised by Hisaki Hashi
AoE: Intercultural and Comparative Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology and Practical Philosophy
Eva Hijlkema
Project: The Concept of Benevolence in Neoliberal Capitalism
Supervised by Angela Kallhoff
AoE: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Economics
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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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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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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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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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Boda Liu
Project: Das Leib-Ich: Reflexionen aus der Perspektive der generativen Phänomenologie
Supervised by Michael Staudigl
AoE: Phenomenology
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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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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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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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Miriam Metze
Project: Unrequited Love. A Philosophical Consolation
Supervised by Kurt Appel
AoE: Social Epistemology, Phenomenology
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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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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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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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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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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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Patrick Pradler
The Synthetic View of Mathematics
Supervised by Georg Schiemer
AoE: Philosophy of Mathematics, Kant's Theoretical Philosophy
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Björn Puhr
Project: Die Zeit der Stille
Supervised by Michael Staudigl and Jocelyn Benoist
AoE: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy
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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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Mani Rashtipour
Project: A Non-Quantificational Account of Generic Generalizations
Supervised by Max Kölbel
AoE: Philosophy of Language, Formal Semantics
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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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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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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
Jie Shen
Supervised by Violetta Waibel
AoE: Philosophy of Art (Hegel), Practical Philosophy
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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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)
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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Emelia Stanley
Project: Logical Conventionalism as Coordinated Equilibrium
Supervised by Georg Schiemer
AoE: Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy of Science
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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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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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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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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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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Peihong Xie
Project: Conceptually Engineering Grounding
Supervised by Benjamin Schnieder and Max Kölbel
AoE: Metaphysics, Metaphilosophy, Applied Ontology
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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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Emils Zavelis
Project: Nonclassical Metatheories for Nonclassical Logics
Supervised by Georg Schiemer
AoE: Philosophy of Logic, Logic