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Welcome to the website of the Department of Philosophy. 

With over 1000 students, philosophy is one of the largest disciplines in the College of Arts and Humanities.  Two thirds of our students study to become teachers and for that reason form the focus of our department.

Prof. Dr. Vanessa Albus holds the chair of didactics of philosophy. 

Prof. Dr. Suzana Alpsancar is professor of applied ethics with a focus on technology ethics in the digital world. She is co-head of the research project “B06 Ethics and Normativity of Explainable AI” in TRR 318. She is also head of the department.

Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber is professor of practical philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of economics and computer science. She heads the research project Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft is professor of theoretical philosophy.

 

Events

15.05.2025

Talk: Dr. Gab­ri­ele Schim­menti (Uni­versitá Roma Tre, Italy), (His­tory of) Philo­sophy, Polit­ics, and Art in Louise Dittmar (1807–1884): A…

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19.05.2025

Talk: Dr. An­drea Reichen­ber­ger, Grete Her­mann: From Quantum Phys­ics to Polit­ics and Eth­ics.

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29.05.2025 - 29.05.2025

On­line Talk: Mar­tina Guzz­etti - Preg­nant Wo­men’s Well­being in Jane Sharp’s “The Mid­wives’ Book” (1671)

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02.06.2025

Talk: Fe­lix Grewe (Pader­born Uni­ver­sity), In­nov­at­ing Know­ledge for the Fu­ture: Har­away’s Storytelling from Cy­borg to Com­pan­ion Spe­cies

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05.06.2025 - 06.06.2025

On­line-Work­shop: The Liv­ing Forces De­bate across Europe (1686?-1743?)

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12.06.2025 - 13.06.2025

Con­fer­ence: Meta­phys­ics and Meth­od in Mod­ern Philo­sophy and Phe­nomen­o­logy

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16.06.2025

Talk: Dr. Dr. Luka Boršić (In­sti­tute for Philo­sophy Zagreb, Croa­tia), The Proto-Rad­ic­al Fem­in­ism in 16th Cen­tury Dubrovnik: The Strange Case…

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18.06.2025 - 16.06.2025

Hy­brid Work­shop: Wo­men in the His­tory of Medi­cine and Philo­sophy

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30.06.2025

Talk: Dr. Jil Muller (Pader­born Uni­ver­sity), Hol­ist­ic Philo­soph­ic­al An­thro­po­logy

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10.10.2025

Hy­brid-Work­shop: Rules, Func­tions & Cat­egor­ies — A Work­shop on Wil­frid Sel­lars

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News

15.04.2025

Call for Ab­stracts – Planned Volume on Call for In­ter­fer­ences: Sci­ence, Medi­cine and Tech­no­logy

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12.03.2025

Ruth Edith Ha­gen­gruber elec­ted Pres­id­ent of the Ger­man So­ci­ety for Philo­sophy

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13.12.2024

Stel­lenaus­s­chreibung am Cen­ter for the His­tory of Wo­men Philo­soph­ers and Sci­ent­ists

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15.11.2024

CfP - Call for In­ter­fer­ences - Act up/Build­ing up: Eco­Tech­Gender Ac­tion Group

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07.11.2024

KI und Ethik: Wer trägt die Ver­ant­wor­tung? | Prof. Du­mitres­cu Tech Talk mit Jun.-Prof. Su­z­ana Alpsan­car

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06.11.2024

Neue Ver­öf­fent­lichung: Gestreamt, gelikt, flüchtig – schöne neue Kul­tur­welt? - mit einem Beitrag der AG

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30.09.2024

Neue Ver­öf­fent­lichung: Philo­soph­is­che Di­git­al­is­ier­ungs­forschung. Ver­ant­wor­tung, Ver­ständi­gung, Ver­nun­ft, Macht

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10.04.2024

SPEG Series

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19.10.2023

Vor­le­sungs­verzeich­nis WiSe 2023-2024

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21.08.2023

Call for Pa­pers In­ter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence "RORTY AND THE GER­MAN TRA­DI­TION"

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07.03.2023

Vor­le­sungs­verzeich­nis SoSe 2023

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02.11.2022

Vor­le­sungs­verzeich­nis WiSe 2022-2023

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Pader­born Col­loqui­um on Philo­sophy

The colloquium on philosophy serves to present and discuss ongoing research work on philosophy by students, lecturers and guests. The lectures take place at 4 pm c.t. in room O2 at Paderborn University.

Head of de­part­ment

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Prof. Dr. Suzana Alpsancar

Philosophy and Ethics of techno-scientific Cultures

Applied Ethics, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, particularly of digital worlds, Technology Assessment

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Team

Our team  is made up of people who work together intensively to research and find solutions.

Fields of work and pro­fess­or­ships

Di­dactics of Philo­sophy - Prof Dr Vanessa Al­bus

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Ap­plied Eth­ics - Jun. Prof. Dr Su­z­ana Alpsan­car

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Prac­tic­al Philo­sophy - Prof Dr Ruth Ha­gen­gruber

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The­or­et­ic­al Philo­sophy - Prof Dr Se­basti­an Luft

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Secretariats

Petra Große Holling

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