VDP Alumni
Listed below are a some recent VDP alumni, with information about their doctoral projects and subsequent activities.
| Name | Thesis title | Supervision | Defense | Post-PhD placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hernan Bobadilla | Simulating Earthquakes: Explaining and Understanding Natural Phenomena with Highly Idealized Models | Martin Kusch | 2021 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie “Seal of Excellence” postdoc |
Niels de Haan | The Foundations of a Theory of Collective Ethics | Hans Bernhard Schmid | 2021 | 1) Post-doc in the ERC Project 'The Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency', University of Vienna 2) Post-doc at the chair for Social and Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna |
| Florian Schmidsberger | Zur Erfahrung affektiven Leidens. Phänomenologische Beiträge zur Emotions- und Vulnerabilitätstheorie | Georg Stenger | 2022 | Psychotherapist; Lecturer at the Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität. |
| Elisabeth Widmer | Die Enstehung des Marburger Linkskantianismus, Anfänge und Entwicklungen, 1865-1919 | Martin Kusch | 2022 | Post-doc in the Project ‘The Kantian Foundations of Democracy’, University of Oslo (funded by The Research Council of Norway) |
Franz Altner | Group Agency, Constitutivism and Responsibility | Herlinde Pauer-Studer; Hans Bernhard Schmid | 2022 | Post-doc for the chair of Practical Philosophy at the ETH in Zürich, working on the philosophy of action applied to group agents |
| Laura Caroline Crompton | Who (...or what) is to decide? What AI influence means for human decisions | Mark Coeckelbergh; Hans Bernhard Schmid | 2022 | Byte: Bayrische Agentur für Digitales |
| Henning Heller | Integrating History and Philosophy of Mathematics: The Case of Modern Algebra | Georg Schiemer | 2022 | Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Mathematics Education, University of Bonn |
Calling all VDP Alumni!
If you are not currently listed and would like to be, please get in touch at vd.philosophy@univie.ac.at. We would love to add your profile.