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- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- PPE/PEP/P&E

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By appointment via email.
- Philosophy of Social Sciences
- Political philosophy
- Political theory

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By appointment via email.
- Philosophy of science
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of the mind

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By appointment via email.
- Ancient philosophy
- Aristoteles' and Platons Ethics, Moral Psychology and Epistemology

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- Kant
- Bentham
- Theory of democracy
- Constitutional power
- Cosmopolitanism
- Animal politics

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- 18th century (Immanuel Kant, Enlightenment) and Early Modern Philosophy
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of culture
By appointment via email.
- Later Medieval
- Early Modern Philosophy

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Working area: Ethics in Information Technologies at the University of Hamburg (EIT)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Judith Simon Website EIT
- 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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- Political Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Ethics

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- Ancient philosophy
- esp. epistemology
- Ethics
- Hellenistic philosophy
By appointment via email.
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
Retired professors / with emeritus status

- History of philosophy from Descartes to Hegel, especially Spinoza and Kant

- Philosophy of science
- History of science in the early modern period
- Marxism
- Anarchism
- Logic

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- Ancient philosophy and late antiquity
- Pre-Socratics
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Hellenism

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- 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
- Philosophy of language and logic
- Metaphysics
- History of analytic philosophy

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- Methodological problems of the historiography of philosophy
- The reception of John Locke's philosophy
- Political liberalism and libertarianism

- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Metaphysics

- Dialectics
- Argumentation theory
- Philosophy of science
- Theory of culture
Research associates
By appointment via email.
- Philosophy of speech
- History of analytical philosophy

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- Political Theory
- Democratic Theory

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- Metaethics
- Normativity
- Social norms

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By appointment via email.
- Political Philosophy of Migration
- Normative Ethics
- Meta-Ethics

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By appointment via email.
- Political philosophy
- Ethics
By appointment via email.

By appointment via email.
- Logic and metaphysics of grounding
- Philosophical logic
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of language
- History of analytic philosophy (Bolzano, Frege)

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- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Science
- Ethics and Normativity

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- Organizational Ethics
- Virtue and Vice Epistemology
- Political Philosophy
- Digital Humanities
- Ethics of Finance

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By appointment via email.
- Analytic action theory
- Philosophy of the 19th & 20th century
- Political philosophy
By appointment via email.
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of science
per E-Mail

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- Applied Epistemology
- Collective Epistemic Responsibility
- Agnosticism and Philosophy of Religion

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- Social and Political Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Ethics
- -> https://www.calebward.xyz/

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- Political and social philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Decolonial theory
- Environmental ethics
- Affect theory
Visiting scholars

By appointment via email.
- Late medieval philosophy
- History of logic
Please schedule appointments via email.
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
Technical, administrative and library staff
- Absent from July 7th to July 18th, 2025
- Tuesday 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
- Thursday 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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- Office hours: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM
- Examinationmanagement
- Mo. - Thu. 08:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Fr. 08:00 am - 02:00 pm
- IT Service Design and Service Transition
- IT service operation
- Support for the IT Coordinator
- Webmaster (and CMS-Admin) for the Philosophy Department
- Tuesday 09:30-11:00 AM
- Thursday 09:30 AM-12:00 PM
- or by appointment
- Office hours: Mon-Fri, 08:30 AM-2:00 PM
- Coordination
- Management

- Tuesday 09:30-11:00 AM
- Thursday 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- or by appointment
- Office hours: Mon - Fri: 08:00 AM - 3:30 PM
- Management for Liberal Arts & Science (B.A)
- Deputy head of the academic office of the department of philosophy
Dienstag 09:30-11:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 09:30-12:00 Uhr
oder nach Vereinbarung
Bürozeiten: Mo–Do, 09–14 Uhr
- Course management Philosophy (B.A, M.A.)
- Examinations management Liberal Arts & Sciences (B.A.)
- You can reach me on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
- Monday - Thursday: 9:00 AM - 13:00 PM
- Office management
Student assistants

- In the summer semester 2025: Tuesdays (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM), Wednesdays (12:00 PM - 3:00 PM), and Thursdays (9:00 AM - 2:00 PM).
- During the semester break: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
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