Faculty & Staff
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Professors
Active professors

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Professor of Practical Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 02026, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-8601
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Fridays 14-16h and by appointment. Please register by email!
Key aspects of activity
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- PPE/PEP/P&E
Junior Professor
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12007
Tel: +49 40 42838-2686
Office hours
By arrangement by email
Key aspects of activity
- Philosophy of Social Sciences
- Political philosophy
- Political theory

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Professor of Philosophy of Science
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach 4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12013, VMP6
Tel: +49 40 42838-8370
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
By appointment

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Professor of Practical Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03025, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2683
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- 18. Jahrhundert (Immanuel Kant, Aufklärung) und neuere Moderne
- Ethik
- Ästhetik
- Kulturphilosophie
Professor of History of Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03021, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-7446
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
By appointment by email.
Key aspects of activity
- Later Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Professor for Ethics in Information Technology
Institute of Philosophy
Frau Prof. Simon
22527 Hamburg
Room: G-120, Informatik / EIT
Tel: +49 40 428 83-2020
Office hours
Arbeitsbereich: Ethics in Information Technologies at the University of Hamburg (EIT)
Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Judith Simon über Website EIT
Key aspects of activity
- Computer Ethics & Philosophy of Computing
- Critical Big Data Studies
- Philosophy of Technology & Philosophy of Science
- Socio-Technical Epistemology
- Science and Technology Studies & Technology Assessment
- Values in Design & Responsible Research and Innovation

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Professor of Practical Philosophy
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 02003, Überseering 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-4713
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
- Political Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Ethics
Junior professors

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deputy professorship
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03010, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2687
Office hours
By appointment zoom meetings
Key aspects of activity
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Metaphysics
Retired professors / with emeritus status

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Email: W.Bartuschat"AT"t-online.de
Key aspects of activity
- Geschichte der Philosophie von Descartes bis Hegel, vor allem Spinoza und Kant

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 2684
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 3983
Key aspects of activity
- Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Wissenschaftsgeschichte der frühen Neuzeit
- Marxismus
- Anarchismus
- Logik

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Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
- Antike Philosophie und Spätantike
- Vorsokratiker
- Platon
- Aristoteles
- Hellenismus

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Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Key aspects of activity
- Studies concerning the logical structure and dynamics of empirical theories
- Problems at the interface between epistemology and philosophy of science
- Holism of confirmation
- Comparisons concerning the structure of descriptive (empirical) and normative (ethical) theories
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
- Philosophie der Sprache und der Logik
- Metaphysik
- Geschichte der analytischen Philosophie

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Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03078, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2816
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Methodologische Probleme der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung
- Die Rezeption der Philosophie John Lockes
- Politischer Liberalismus und Libertarismus

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Ethik
- Politische Philosophie
- Metaphysik

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03091, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Dialektik
- Argumentationstheorie
- Wissenschaftstheorie
- Kulturtheorie
Research associates
Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03001, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2686
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Philosophie und Geschichte der Mathematik
- Mathematische Logik
- Philosophie und Geschichte der Logik

Research Associate (Postdoc, Project "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Knowledge Claims")
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: 03015, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-3078
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Sprachphilosophie
- Erkenntnistheorie
Marie Curie Fellow
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35 Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03017, Ü 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1739
Key aspects of activity
- political philosophy
- moral philosophy
- value theory

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Postdoctoral researcher: Funding program „Postdoctoral Fellowships“ within the Excellence Strategy (Universität Hamburg)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 2005, Überseering 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1730
Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03078, Überseering 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2816
Office hours
Sprechstunden nur nach Vereinbarung
Research Associate (Postdoc, Project "Entscheidungen und Wissen")
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03018, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-6551
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours

Research Associate (Postdoc, Logic and Metaphysics of Ground)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 9168
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Logik und Metaphyisk des Grundes
- Philosophische Logik
- Metaphysik
- Sprachphilosophie
- Geschichte der Analytischen Philosophie (Bolzano, Frege)
Research Associate (PhD Student, Prof. Schmid)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 1060, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2556
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Email: lukas.lang"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35 Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03020, Ü 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1765
Office hours
By appointment E-Mail or Zoom
Key aspects of activity
- Modal Epistemology
- Modal Metaphysics
- Counterfactuals
- Abduction
- Open Future
- Skepticism
- Philosophy of Death

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Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 02025, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1739
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
By appointment by email.
Key aspects of activity
- Politische Philosophie
- Angewandte Ethik
- PPE

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Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: 12th floor, Room B12013, Von-Melle-Park 6
Tel: +49 40 428 38 - 3526
Fax: +49 40 428 38 - 3983
Office hours
By appointment per email
Key aspects of activity
- Analytic action theory
- Philosophy of the 19th & 20th century
- Political philosophy
PhD Student
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
20146 Hamburg
Room: 03023, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1768
Office hours
per E-Mail
Research Associate (Postdoc, Relevance-Project)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03008, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-9167
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Bolzano

Research Associate (Postdoc)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Frege
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Language
Research Associate (Postdoc, Project "Ontology after Quine")
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03013, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-7565
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 3983
Office hours
Key aspects of activity
- Metaphysik
- Sprachphilosophie
- Philosophische Logik
- Geschichte der analytischen Philosophie

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Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03014, Ü 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-7972
Office hours
by appointment

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Research Associate (PhD Student, Dr. Dr. Marco Meyer)
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03020, Überseering 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1765
Email: lily.tappe"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Applied Epistemology
- Collective Epistemic Responsibility
- Agnosticism and Philosophy of Religion

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Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03011, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-3226
Email: caleb.ward"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Ethics
- Siehe -> https://www.calebward.xyz/

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Visiting Professor
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03017, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-6875
Office hours
by appointment
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers

Research Associate (Postdoc, Prof. Gähde)
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40428 38 - 2295
Fax: +49 40428 38 - 3983
Technical, administrative and library staff
Examinationmnagement
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03087, Überseering 35
Tel: +49 40 42838-4718
Office hours
Contact only email
Key aspects of activity
- Examinationmnagement

System Engineer
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 155, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-6095
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
- Mo. - Do. 08:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr
- Fr. 08:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr
Key aspects of activity
- IT-Service Design und Service Transition
- IT-Service Operation
- Unterstützung des IT-Koordinators
- Webmaster (und CMS-Admin) für das Philosophische Seminar
Coordination and Office Management
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03087, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-9255
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
- Contact only email
Key aspects of activity
- Coordination and Office Management
Studentische Angestellte
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03089, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
- Helpdesk
Other

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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Organizational Ethics
- Virtue and Vice Epistemology
- Political Philosophy
- Digital Humanities
- Ethics of Finance

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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35 Postfach #4/ 2. OG
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03018, Ü 35
Key aspects of activity
- Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social Philosophy
- Fichte's Practical Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Critical Theory
- Currently, I am mainly working on a project on "Fichte and Human Rights". You can find a short description of the project here: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/451551446?language=en