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Faculty & Staff

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Professors

Active professors

Prof. Dr. Matthew Braham

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Prof. Dr. Matthew Braham

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

Prof. Dr. Ilaria Cozzaglio

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
Thomas Kroedel

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Kroedel

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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Prof. Dr. Birgit Recki

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • 18. Jahrhundert (Immanuel Kant, Aufklärung) und neuere Moderne
  • Ethik
  • Ästhetik
  • Kulturphilosophie

Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid

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

Prof. Dr. Judith Simon

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
Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle

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Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle

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

Stefan Rinner

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Vertr. Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinner

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

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Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Bartuschat

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
  • Geschichte der Philosophie von Descartes bis Hegel, vor allem Spinoza und Kant
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Prof. em. Dr. Werner Diederich

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
Dorothea Frede

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Prof. em. Dr. Dorothea Frede

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
Ulrich Gähde

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Prof. em. Dr. Ulrich Gähde

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

Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Künne

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
Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster

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Prof. em. Dr. Rolf W. Puster

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Methodologische Probleme der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung
  • Die Rezeption der Philosophie John Lockes
  • Politischer Liberalismus und Libertarismus
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Prof. em. Dr. Ulrich Steinvorth

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Ethik
  • Politische Philosophie
  • Metaphysik
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Prof. em. Dr. Harald Wohlrapp

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Dialektik
  • Argumentationstheorie
  • Wissenschaftstheorie
  • Kulturtheorie

Research associates

Dr. Ali Behboud

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

Overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophie und Geschichte der Mathematik
  • Mathematische Logik
  • Philosophie und Geschichte der Logik
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Dr. Alexander Dinges

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Sprachphilosophie
  • Erkenntnistheorie

Dr. Giacomo Floris

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
Dr. Eline Gerritsen

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Dr. Eline Gerritsen

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

PD Dr. Pieter Sjoerd Hasper

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

Dr. Jakob Koscholke

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

overview of office hours

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Dr. Stephan Krämer

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Logik und Metaphyisk des Grundes
  • Philosophische Logik
  • Metaphysik
  • Sprachphilosophie
  • Geschichte der Analytischen Philosophie (Bolzano, Frege)

Lukas Lang, M.A.

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

Jasper Lohmar

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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Dr. Julian Müller

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
Dr. Michael Oliva Córdoba

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Dr. Michael Oliva Córdoba

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

Mary K. Peterson

PhD Student
Philosophisches Seminar
Überseering 35, #4 Postfach
20146 Hamburg
Room: 03023, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-1768
Office hours

per E-Mail

Dr. Stefan Roski

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Bolzano
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Dr. Robert Schwartzkopff

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

Dr. Lukas Skiba

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

overview of office hours

Key aspects of activity
  • Metaphysik
  • Sprachphilosophie
  • Philosophische Logik
  • Geschichte der analytischen Philosophie
Dr. Nils Henning Stear

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Dr. Nils-Hennes Stear

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

by appointment

Lily Tappe

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Lily Tappe

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
Key aspects of activity
  • Applied Epistemology
  • Collective Epistemic Responsibility
  • Agnosticism and Philosophy of Religion
Caleb Ward

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Dr. Caleb Ward

Research Associate
Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35, Postfach #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: 03011, Ü35
Tel: +49 40 42838-3226
Key aspects of activity
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Siehe -> https://www.calebward.xyz/
Marc Andree Weber

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Dr. Marc Andree Weber

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

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Dr. Martin Hoffmann

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

Tammo Baumgart

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
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Christian Corleis

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

Susann Fügner, M.A.

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

Martina Wozniok

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

Marco Meyer

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Dr. Dr. Marco Meyer

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
Esther Neuhann

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Dr. Esther Neuhann

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

Contact

Institute of Philosophy
Überseering 35 #4
3. OG, R. 03089
22297 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-4714
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
E-Mail: philosophie"AT"uni-hamburg.de

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