Faculty & Staff
Professors
Active professors
![Prof. Dr. Matthew Braham](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/13092236/braham-216fb9218476cd44e67a1bc4d454a49873873ee2.jpg)
Photo: UHH/Dingler
Fridays 14-16h and by appointment. Please register by email!
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- PPE/PEP/P&E
By arrangement by email
- Philosophy of Social Sciences
- Political philosophy
- Political theory
![Thomas Kroedel](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/13098500/kroedel-180x240-6521e24f3e4dd6964bee190146a3406b9aac5741.jpg)
Photo: Martin Lukas Kim
By appointment
![Porträt von Jozef Müller](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23669086/230816-mueller-jozef-esfandiari-5638-180x240-be8d289ea50b9489506c864084b64ea0e5a2fee3.jpg)
Photo: Jozef Müller
By appointment
- Ancient philosophy
- Aristoteles' and Platons Ethics, Moral Psychology and Epistemology
![peter-niesen-180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23669142/peter-niesen-180x240-cf79804638595d7667930e15de1c6ec05c2c6e9f.jpg)
Photo: UHH/Mendt
- Kant
- Bentham
- Theory of democracy
- Constitutional power
- Cosmopolitanism
- Animal politics
![Bild von Birgit Recki 135x180](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/4680143/recki-135x180-697602069e44549acd9bf040f6290881d96c41ae.jpg)
Photo: Volker Gerhardt
- 18th century (Immanuel Kant, Enlightenment) and Early Modern Philosophy
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of culture
![schmalzried-180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23669464/schmalzried-180x240-88cecc0e47ea34c337c62bf830bf33de64aa3692.jpg)
By appointment via e-mail
By appointment by email.
- Later Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
![judith-simon-180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21642248/judith-simon-180x240-82956badbda83c6197b404161a96b53318ae5c01.gif)
Photo: UHH/Nicolai
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
![Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/15807932/straehle180x240-01c4c7dcfd26a6f007754ed671e1a91d8766f6e9.jpg)
Photo: UHH/privat
- Political Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Ethics
By appointment via e-mail
Retired professors / with emeritus status
![picture of Wolfgang Bartuschat](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/4682445/bartuschat-120x135-7680aa2909d63e3433778464f723911deb8465bb.png)
- History of philosophy from Descartes to Hegel, especially Spinoza and Kant
![Bild von Werner Diederich](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/4682569/diederich-135x180-8655bc42da96a773ce0600da813d4c192884c99f.jpg)
- Philosophy of science
- History of science in the early modern period
- Marxism
- Anarchism
- Logic
![Dorothea Frede](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/13094692/frede-180x240-34bad3c2e596af1512e88cadf0169c7fde387304.jpg)
Photo: UHH/Frede
- Ancient philosophy and late antiquity
- Pre-Socratics
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Hellenism
![Ulrich Gähde](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/6935733/gaehde-180x240-e90258303bccc3c2590be4e894a548dc853dc757.jpg)
Photo: UHH
- 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
![Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14637182/puster-04052017-180x240-164a70f16bc1ee76297f8c52022f6f8e44b37c0a.jpg)
Photo: UHH/Puster
- Methodological problems of the historiography of philosophy
- The reception of John Locke's philosophy
- Political liberalism and libertarianism
![steinvorth-ulrich-180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21656768/steinvorth-ulrich-180x240-2aac2296492633df6dbe5642d5784b37fa6bd071.png)
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Metaphysics
![Bild von Harald Wohlrapp](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/4683097/wohlrapp-135x180-5871f42389323d167407f3db7009909c36ac9bd5.jpg)
- Dialektik
- Argumentationstheorie
- Wissenschaftstheorie
- Kulturtheorie
Research associates
by appointment
- Philosophy of speech
- History of analytical philosophy
![Laura Engel](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23668645/fotoengel-4ffe1b74a7a5e37e662b45271cb1255b4e135800.jpg)
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
![Dr. Eline Gerritsen](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/20067926/gerritsen-eline-180x240-a0a57f5cb0597157ddee381156f2bddc5c627631.jpg)
Photo: Gerritsen/Uni Hamburg
By appointment
![stephan-kraemer-180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21656748/stephan-kraemer-180x240-eff4fc56a7064a8a0d1721892a9c3295bbc70d1e.png)
- Logic and metaphysics of grounding
- Philosophical logic
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of language
- History of analytic philosophy (Bolzano, Frege)
By appointment E-Mail or Zoom
- Modal Epistemology
- Modal Metaphysics
- Counterfactuals
- Abduction
- Open Future
- Skepticism
- Philosophy of Death
![Dr. Michael Oliva Córdoba](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14635148/occhile-180x240-d29c61eb95ee907eab3eb30005d9015363ff72f3.jpg)
Photo: UHH/privat
By appointment per email
- Analytic action theory
- Philosophy of the 19th & 20th century
- Political philosophy
per E-Mail
![Photo von Filippo Riscica Lizzio](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23669335/riscica-lizzio-180x240-2a8e05895692f7b138fa7114f4198b2650bce36e.jpg)
Photo: Privat/Riscica Lizzio
By appointment via e-mail
- Epistemology of groups
- Agent-based models of opinion dynamics
- Social Epistemology
- Formal Epistemology
- Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Bolzano
![Dr. Nils Henning Stear](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/18367334/stear-180x240-7a82bd7540a35a770d61d40141726e42ed697b07.jpg)
Photo: Stear Uni Hamburg
by appointment
![Lily Tappe](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/20454383/lily-tappe-180x240-20880a0b92b93f22529108a7ded9f20c5d52678d.jpg)
Photo: Tappe/Uni HH
- Applied Epistemology
- Collective Epistemic Responsibility
- Agnosticism and Philosophy of Religion
![Caleb Ward](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/16212428/ward-180x240-81109dc0e387ed84f2895d2746e36e8b2e745b81.jpeg)
Photo: Ward/Uni Hamburg
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Ethics
- Siehe -> https://www.calebward.xyz/
![mariewuth](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23669969/mariewuth-afd8730e341898803eaed41d6f47e183a65acaeb.jpeg)
Photo: UHH/mariewuth
- Political and social philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Decolonial theory
- Environmental ethics
- Affect theory
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers
![Bild von Dr. Martin Hoffmann](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/4718410/hoffmann-59747a23cebce4a5fdb9e0e5a90af766e76b8aac.jpg)
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- Examinationmnagement
- 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
- Contact only email
- Coordination and Office Management
![bjoern-hanssen--180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23668873/bjoern-hanssen--180x240-c0df625e4289511f0a8064a66f0e719f30613a55.jpg)
- Dienstag 09:30-11:00 Uhr
- Donnerstag 09:30-12:00 Uhr
- oder nach Vereinbarung
- Bürozeiten: Mo - Fr: 08:00-15:30 Uhr
- Studienmanagement Liberal Arts & Sciences (B.A.)
- Stellv. Leitung Studienbüro
![AMartz](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/23668997/as-f7b23461ed0063fdaec776fb58fd6d280a3a9c38.png)
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Donnerstag 09:30-12:00 Uhr
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- Lehrveranstaltungsmanagement Philosophie (B.A., M.A.)
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![Marco Meyer](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/15893418/marco-meyer-180x240-334d1e5502077657500ab37f4e36ff14883b4f4a.jpg)
Photo: Uni Hamburg/Meyer
- Organizational Ethics
- Virtue and Vice Epistemology
- Political Philosophy
- Digital Humanities
- Ethics of Finance