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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
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12006, Philturm
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
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Prof. Dr. Ilaria Cozzaglio

Junior Professor
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12007, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-2686
Office hours

By appointment via 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, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12013, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-8370
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of science
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of the mind
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Prof. Dr. Jozef Müller

Professor of History of Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12022, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838 6875
Office hours

By appointment via email. 

Key aspects of activity
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Aristoteles' and Platons Ethics, Moral Psychology and Epistemology
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Prof. Dr. Peter Niesen

Professorship for Political Theory
Allende-Platz 1
21046 Hamburg
Room: 408b, AP1
Tel: +49 40 42828 9612
Key aspects of activity
  • Kant
  • Bentham
  • Theory of democracy
  • Constitutional power
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Animal politics
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Prof. Dr. Birgit Recki

Professor of Practical Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2683
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • 18th century (Immanuel Kant, Enlightenment) and Early Modern Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of culture

Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid

Professor of History of Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12010, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-7446
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Later Medieval
  • Early Modern Philosophy
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Prof. Dr. Judith Simon

Professor for Ethics in Information Technology
Institute of Philosophy
C/O Poststelle Dr. Simon
20141 Hamburg
Office hours

Working area: Ethics in Information Technologies at the University of Hamburg (EIT)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Judith Simon 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
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-4713
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Political Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Ethics
Máté Veres

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Dr. Máté Veres, PhD

Substitute professorship
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12022, Philturm
Key aspects of activity
  • Ancient philosophy
  • esp. epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Hellenistic philosophy

Prof. Dr. Emanuel Viebahn

Professor of Philosophy of Language
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12012, Philosophenturm
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics

Retired professors / with emeritus status

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Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Bartuschat

Died at 10. August 2022
Institute of Philosophy
Key aspects of activity
  • History of philosophy from Descartes to Hegel, especially Spinoza and Kant
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Prof. em. Dr. Werner Diederich

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 2684
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of science
  • History of science in the early modern period
  • Marxism
  • Anarchism
  • Logic
Dorothea Frede

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Prof. em. Dr. Dorothea Frede

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Ancient philosophy and late antiquity
  • Pre-Socratics
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Hellenism
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
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of language and logic
  • Metaphysics
  • History of analytic philosophy
Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster

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Prof. em. Dr. Rolf W. Puster

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2816
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Methodological problems of the historiography of philosophy
  • The reception of John Locke's philosophy
  • Political liberalism and libertarianism
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Prof. em. Dr. Ulrich Steinvorth

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Metaphysics
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Prof. em. Dr. Harald Wohlrapp

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Dialectics
  • Argumentation theory
  • Philosophy of science
  • Theory of culture

Research associates

Dr. Jan Claas

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12022, Philturm
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of speech
  • History of analytical philosophy
Bahadir Eker

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Dr. Bahadir Eker

Postdoc
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12011, Philturm

Dr. Vittorio Gerosa

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12024, Philturm
Key aspects of activity
  • Political Theory
  • Democratic 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
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12008, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-1730
Key aspects of activity
  • Metaethics
  • Normativity
  • Social norms
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Daniel Häuser

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12024, Philturm
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Political Philosophy of Migration
  • Normative Ethics
  • Meta-Ethics
Luchino Hagemeier

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Luchino Hagemeier

Research associate (Doctoral candidate)
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12005, Philturm
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Political philosophy
  • Ethics

PD Dr. Pieter Sjoerd Hasper

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12012, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-2816
Office hours

By appointment via email.

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PD Dr. Stephan Krämer

Head of the Emmy Noether Group 'Relevance'
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12010, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 9168
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 3983
Office hours

By appointment via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Logic and metaphysics of grounding
  • Philosophical logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of language
  • History of analytic philosophy (Bolzano, Frege)
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Samuel Lee, Ph.D.

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12014, Philturm
Key aspects of activity
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Ethics and Normativity
Marco Meyer

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Dr. Dr. Marco Meyer

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12023, Philturm
Key aspects of activity
  • Organizational Ethics
  • Virtue and Vice Epistemology
  • Political Philosophy
  • Digital Humanities
  • Ethics of Finance
Dr. Michael Oliva Córdoba

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Dr. Michael Oliva Córdoba

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12013, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 428 38 - 3526
Fax: +49 40 428 38 - 3983
Office hours

By appointment via email. 

Key aspects of activity
  • Analytic action theory
  • Philosophy of the 19th & 20th century
  • Political philosophy

Brian Ortmann

Research associate
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12014, Philturm
Office hours

By appointment via email. 

Key aspects of activity
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of science

Mary K. Peterson

Doctoral researcher
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6, Post #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12011, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-1768
Office hours

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Lily Tappe

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Lily Tappe

Research associate and doctoral researcher
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12023, Philturm
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
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12024, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-3226
Key aspects of activity
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Ethics
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Dr. Marie Wuth

Research associate
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12008, Philosophenturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-4713
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Key aspects of activity
  • Political and social philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Decolonial theory
  • Environmental ethics
  • Affect theory

Visiting scholars

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Dr. Guido Alt

Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12024, Philturm
Office hours

By appointment via email. 

Key aspects of activity
  • Late medieval philosophy
  • History of logic

Daniel Bella

Doctoral researcher
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12011, Philosopenturm

Manuel Englert

Doctoral researcher
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12011, Philturm
Office hours

Please schedule appointments via email.

Key aspects of activity
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics

Technical, administrative and library staff

Tammo Baumgart

Examinationmanagement
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
22297 Hamburg
Room: C12003, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-4718
Office hours
  • Absent from July 7th to July 18th, 2025
  • Tuesday 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Thursday 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • or by appointment
  • Office hours: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM
Key aspects of activity
  • Examinationmanagement

Christian Corleis

System Engineer
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C9014, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-6095
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
  • Mo. - Thu. 08:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Fr. 08:00 am - 02:00 pm
Key aspects of activity
  • IT Service Design and Service Transition
  • IT service operation
  • Support for the IT Coordinator
  • Webmaster (and CMS-Admin) for the Philosophy Department

Susann Fügner, M.A.

Head of the academic office
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12001, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-9255
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
  • 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
Key aspects of activity
  • Coordination
  • Management
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Björn Hanssen, M.A.

Manager for the degree program Liberal Arts & Sciences
Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12023, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-7565
Office hours
  • 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
Key aspects of activity
  • Management for Liberal Arts & Science (B.A)
  • Deputy head of the academic office of the department of philosophy

Astrid Martz

Course and examinationsmanagement
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12004, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-4716
Office hours

Dienstag 09:30-11:00 Uhr
Donnerstag 09:30-12:00 Uhr
oder nach Vereinbarung

Bürozeiten: Mo–Do, 09–14 Uhr

Key aspects of activity
  • Course management Philosophy (B.A, M.A.)
  • Examinations management Liberal Arts & Sciences (B.A.)

Sinje Schuck

Department advisor
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: B12022, VMP6 / Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-2295
Fax: +49 40 42838-3983
Office hours
  • You can reach me on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Lea von Prondzinski

Business Office of the Department of Philosophy
Philosophisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12002, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838-2684, +49 171 9135 358
Office hours
  • Monday - Thursday: 9:00 AM - 13:00 PM
Key aspects of activity
  • Office management

Student assistants

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Marie Kandt

Student employee
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #4
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12002, Philturm
Tel: +49 40 42838 4714
Office hours
  • 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.
Key aspects of activity
  • FB website
  • Help desk
  • Email distribution list
  • Mail
  • Transponder orders

Inari Lampinen

Research Assistant
Institute of Philosophy
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: C12014, Philosophenturm

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