Research
Research
Key areas of research and teaching
- Moral philosophy (in particular, normative ethics and meta-ethics)
- Political philosophy (in particular, theories of democracy and justice)
- Social philosophy (in particular, theories of communal property and research into indifference)
- Philosophy of Law (theories of property and the rights of nature)
- Philosophical anthropology in the broad sense (in particular, theories of the good life and of time)
- German Idealism (in particular Kant and Hegel)
- Critical Theory (in particular Adorno, Habermas)
Research projects
DFG Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio ‘Structural Change in Property’ (SFB 294)
1) TP A06: The normative foundations of property: freedom, communal and sustainable property
Duration: 01/2021 – 12/2024
Status: completed
In collaboration with: Prof. Dr Andrea Esser
Researcher: Dr Jacob Blumenfeld
Link: sfb294-eigentum.de/de/
2) TP A.06: The normative foundations of property: Digital property
Duration: 01/2025–12/2028
Status: ongoing
Researcher: Dr Simon Gurisch
Link: sfb294-eigentum.de/de/
DFG Research Group ‘Voluntariness’ (FOR 2983)
1) WP 01: Antinomies of Voluntariness. Social-philosophical investigations into the foundations of political participation
Duration: 2020 – 2024
Status: completed
Researcher: Dr Philipp Schink
Link: www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/freiwilligkeit
You can find the research group’s blog here: www.voluntariness.org
2) WP 01: Voluntarism, Democracy and Climate Policy. A socio-philosophical reconstruction
Duration: 2024 – 2027
Status: ongoing
In collaboration with: Dr Philipp Schink
Link: www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/freiwilligkeit
Doctoral programme ‘Shaping the Future: Transforming the Present through Digitalisation Scenarios’
Funded by: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture
Duration: October 2019 – September 2024
Status: completed