Supervisory faculty

The following faculty members are eligible to supervise doctoral research.


Professor, Department for Systematic Theology and Ethics/ Speaker, Research Center Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

  • Philosophy of History, Eschatology, Utopia and the Question of God
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Hegel and German Idealism
  • Postmodern Structuralism and Critique of Knowledge

Permanent Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

  • Indian Philosophy
  • European History of Philosophy (esp. Deconstruction, Poststructuralism)
  • Aesthetics 

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Developments in Robotics
  • Developments in Artificial Intelligence
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Project Director, Institute Vienna Circle

  • Philosophy of Science and the Humanities
  • Descriptive Psychology
  • Moral Non-Cogntivism
  • Philosophy of Logic

Professor of Psychotherapy Research,  Head of the Division Psychodynamics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences/ Professor, Department of Philosophy/ Full Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Methodologies of Empirical Research (esp. First-Person Methodologies in Health Sciences, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis)
  • Applied Ethics

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Applied Animal Ethics, Ethics of Farm Animal Welfare, Veterinary Ethics
  • Pragmatism in Applied Ethics
  • Orientation Towards Practice in Ethics
  • Methods of Problem-Oriented and Applied Moral Philosophy

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Power
  • Communication and Discourse
  • Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Didactics and Methodology of Philosophy and Ethics

Associate Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy

  • History of Philosophy (esp. Kant, Wittgenstein)
  • Aesthetics
  • Theoretical Philosophy

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Mathematics & Logic
  • Symbol Theory
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • History of Analytic Philosophy (esp. Wittgenstein, Peirce)

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Applied Ethics
  • Climate Ethics

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Plato & Aristotle
  • Hellenistic philosophy, philosophy of late antiquity and Byzantine philosophy

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Modelling and Representation
  • ERC Project "Possible Life: The Philosophical Significance of Extending Biology"

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Meta-Ethics

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy, History & Sociology of Science
  • Philosophy of Psychology & Social Science
  • Epistemology & Social Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language (esp. Davidson, Kripke, Wittgenstein)

Andrea Loettgers

Senior Researcher, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Modelling Practices in Biology and Physics
  • Philosophy of Biology

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Didactics and Methodology of Teaching Ethics and Philosophy
  • History of Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Research associate, Department of Philosophy

  • History of Modern Philosophy
  • Transcendental Philosophy
  • Aesthetics
  • Kantian Ethics and Political Theory

Elisabeth Nemeth

Associate Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Logical Empiricism (esp. Otto Neurath, Edgar Zilsel, Philipp Frank)
  • Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Culture
  • Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Science and Education

Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy


Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Innovation & Knowledge Creation
  • Cognitive Science
  • Organisational Theory
  • Enabling Spaces

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Social Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Economics

Permanent Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

  • Continental Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Political & Social Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Rhetoric

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • History of Early Modern Philosophy

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • History of Philosophy of Science
  • Didactics of Philosophy
  • Philosophical Practice

Professor, Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion

  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Intercultural Philosophy (esp. Latin American Philosophy)
  • Ethics & Political Philosophy
  • Theories of Modernity

Professor, Department of Philosophy


Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality
  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • Social and Political Philosophy

Benjamin Schnieder

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Metaphysics
  • Ontology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Logic
  • History of Analytic Philosophy

Associate Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy & Cultural Studies of Science & Technology
  • Feminist Theory and Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Culture as Political Philosophy
  • Postcolonial and Race Critical Theories

Paulina Sliwa

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Moral philosophy
  • Moral psychology
  • Meta ethics
  • Feminist philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of mind

Friedrich Stadler

Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Intellectual History and Exile Studies
  • History, Theory, and Methods of Cultural Studies
  • Founder of the Institute Vienna Circle

Permanent Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Phenomenology
  • Religion, Violence & Fundamentalism
  • Ethics & Political Philosophy

Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • 20th Century and Contemporary Philosophy
  • Cultural and Intercultural Philosophy and Anthropology
  • Poststrucutralism
  • Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Language

Professor, i.R., Department of Philosophy

  • Theoretical Philosophy (esp. Metaphysics, Knowledge, Subjectivity, Space & Time)
  • European & Continental Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy (esp. Kant & German Idealism)
  • Aesthetics

Kurt Walter Zeidler

Honorary Professor, Department of Philosophy

  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Transcendental Philosophy
  • Theory of Dialectics and Semiotics