Supervisory faculty
The following faculty members are eligible to supervise doctoral research.
Senior Research Fellow/ Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Continental Philosophy
- Social and Cultural Philosophy
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, 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, 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
Elisabeth Nemeth
Associate Professor, 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, Department of Philosophy
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Normativity and Practical Reasoning
- ERC Project: "The Normative and Moral foundations of Group Agency"
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
- History and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Early Analytic Philosophy
- History and Philosophy of Logic
- ERC Project: "Roots of Mathematical Structuralism"
Professor, Department of Philosophy
- Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality
- Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Social and Political Philosophy
Michael Schmitz
Independent Researcher
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language (esp. Speech Acts)
- Collective Intentionality and Social Ontology
- Practical Reasoning
Benjamin Schnieder
Professor, Department of Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Logic
- History of Analytic Philosophy
Associate Professor, 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, 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, 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