Research
Research
Main areas of research and teaching
- Moral philosophy (especially normative ethics and metaethics)
- Political philosophy (esp. theories of democracy and justice)
- Social philosophy (esp. theories of common property, indifference research)
- Philosophy of law (theories of property and the rights of nature)
- Philosophical anthropology in the broad sense (esp. theories of the good life and time)
- German idealism (especially Kant and Hegel)
- Critical theory (esp. Adorno, Habermas)
Research projects
DFG Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio "Structural Change of Property" (SFB 294)
1) TP A06: The normative foundations of property: freedom, communal and sustainable property
Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2024
Status: completed
Together with: Prof. Dr Andrea Esser
Collaborator: Dr Jacob Blumenfeld
Link: sfb294-eigentum.de/en/
2) TP A.06: The normative foundations of property: digital property
Duration: 01/2025-12/2028
Status: ongoing
Staff member: Dr Simon Gurisch
Link: sfb294-eigentum.de/en/
DFG Research Unit "Voluntariness" (FOR 2983)
1) SP 01: Antinomies of Voluntariness. Socio-philosophical studies on the basis of political participation
Duration: 2020 - 2024
Status: completed
Staff member: Dr Philipp Schink
Link: www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/freiwilligkeit
Here you can find the blog of the research group: www.voluntariness.org
2) SP 01: Voluntariness, democracy and climate policy. A socio-philosophical reconstruction
Duration: 2024 - 2027
Congestion: ongoing
Together with: Dr Philipp Schink
Link: www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/freiwilligkeit
Doctoral programme "Shaping the future. Transforming the present through scenarios of digitalisation"
Funded by: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture
Duration: 10/2019 - 09/2024
Status: completed