Priorities, Projects, Cooperations

The department of philosophy conducts research across the range of philosophy while choosing our own emphasis. We are involved in long-term projects in discipline specific and interdisciplinary cooperation. Current projects will be updated here.

Our research areas are: Philosophical theory formation from 18th to 21st century with systematic recourse to Latin and Greek sources. We are interested in the history and representations of knowledge, in phenomenology as well as social and legal philosophy, in questions related to institutions and power, in the philosophy of technology, technoscience and new technologies as well as in the philosophy of music and aesthetics. Our teaching links philosophical classics with current issues in philosophy.

The department maintains national and international connections.

Visiting Researchers at the Institute of Philosophy since 2018

BioDivKultur

Philosophical subproject of the Interdisciplinary Project "Biodiversity Cultures in Town and Country – Integrative Research to Promote Insect Diversity on Green Spaces (BioDivKultur)" within the framework of the BMBF- Research Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation (FEdA).

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MISRIK

The joint project "Memes, Ideas, Strategies of Right-Wing Extremist Internet Communication" is funded by the BMBF within the announcement "Civil Security – Societies in Transition".

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Hybrid systems, bionics, and the circulation of morphological knowledge

What is the epistemology and ontology of bionics based on? What are hybrid bio-technical systems? The project is funded by the DFG.

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Centre Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI)

The Centre Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI) is a research network which actively reaches out into politics, society and the economy. It combines the scientific expertise of researchers based at Hessian universities in order to analyse the ethical and legal dimensions of digital transformation, thus contributing to shaping this transformation.

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History of bioethics in Germany 1970-2010

The project was funded by the DFG until July 1, 2022.

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Personal Identity at the Crossroads: Phenomenological, Genealogical, and Hegelian Perspectives

Funding by the Czech Science Fund (GAČR), funded until 2021, PI: Assoz.-Prof. Jakub Čapek (Charles University Prague).

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Research Training Group KRITIS

KRITIS is an interdisciplinary research training group dedicated to the study of critical infrastructures in cities. It has been in existence since October 2016 and is currently in its second funding phase, which will last until 2025. Until 2022, Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann was the PI; from 2022, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaminski will be the PI.

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