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


    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

    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