Team

Thomas is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam. His research concerns issues in social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, and aesthetics; it draws on various traditions of post-Kantian European philosophy (especially German Idealism, Critical Theory, 20th century continental thought). Currently, Thomas works on a critical theory of second nature, a rearticulation of the sociality of the human life-form and develops the philosophical implications of the “Anthropocene”.

khurana@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.04, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Lucilla Guidi

Lucilla Guidi is Assistant Professor in Ethics and Aesthetics at the University of Potsdam. Her research areas are practical philosophy, philosophy of language, ethics, and aesthetics. She systematically focuses on the transformative dimension of philosophy as a way of life and on the performative constitution of everyday life-practices. For this purpose, she draws on post-Kantian philosophical traditions, particularly phenomenology, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, and the paradigm of performativity.

lucilla.guidi@uni-potsdam.de

Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 11, Raum 2.13, 14469 Potsdam

Logi Gunnarsson is Professor of Ethics and Aesthetics and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Potsdam. His research interests concern the relation of reason and philosophy, practical philosophy and morality, personal identity, self-relation, William James, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

erxleben@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.14, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Johannes Haag is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His systematic interests in theoretical philosophy concern the philosophy of language, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and in particular the theory of intentionality. Historically, he works mainly on issues in early modern philosophy, the philosophy of enlightenment, the philosophy of Kant and German Idealism. In addition to Kant and Descartes he is especially interested in Spinoza, Berkeley and Fichte.

johannes.haag@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.01, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Hilkje C. Hänel works as Assistant Professor in Political Theory at Potsdam University. From September 2022 till May 2023 she will be Helene-Lange Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg. Since October 2021, she is also the Principal Investigator of a DFG-research network on “The Relation between Theories of Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory”. From 2018—2020, she was Assistant Professor in Practical Philosophy at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She has published three books and several articles in feminist, social, and political philosophy and is co-editor of the book series Transforming Political Philosophy (de Gruyter).

hilkje.charlotte.haenel@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Professur für Politische Theorie, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Thomas Hilgers is research associate at the Department of Philosophy at Potsdam University. His main fields of research are philosophy of time, philosophy of technology, ontology, ethics, and aesthetics. His work is deeply influenced by the Kantian and post-Kantian tradition (including philosophers such as Schiller and Schopenhauer) as well as by the phenomenological tradition (in particular Heidegger). Currently, Thomas is working on a theory of „good temporality,“ which he aims to arrive at in the context of introducing a broader ontological as well as ethical account of the relationship between technology and time.

thilgers@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.13, 14469 Pot

Anton Kabeshkin is assistant professor at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. In his research he is focusing mainly on classical German philosophy, early modern philosophy and philosophy of science. In his dissertation and in a series of subsequent articles, Anton has interpreted Hegel’s philosophy of nature as an anti-reductionist project. Currently, he is working on Hegelian and early modern metaphysics as well as on issues in Kant’s, Schelling’s and Hegel’s philosophy of nature.

kabeshkin@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.26, 14469 Potsdam

Lena is an assistant professor at the Chair for Ethics and Aesthetics at Potsdam University. Her main interests lie at the intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind, in feminist philosophy, philosophy of emotion as well as in the field of social ontology. Currently, Lena is working on publishing her dissertation on the topic of self-knowledge and on a philosophical definition of the concept of intersectionality.

ljucovic@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 11, Raum 2.13, 14469 Potsdam

Fabian Schuppert is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Potsdam. His research areas are republicanism, social egalitarianism, social inequality, climate justice, risk ethics, territorial rights and natural resources, alternative models of political economy, post-capitalism, structural injustice, decolonialism, political and economic institutions, history of ideas, especially of the 18th century.

fabian.schuppert@uni-potsdam.de

Universität Potsdam, Professur Politische Theorie, August-Bebel-Straße 89, House 1, Room 1.36, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Isabel is a research associate at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam. Her main research interests are in the field of post-Kantian philosophy, especially German Idealism and Hegel, philosophy of mind, social philosophy, and Critical Theory. In her dissertation she is working on the question of the form of spiritual life.

sickenberger@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.05, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Thomas Jussuf Spiegel is an assistant professor at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. He earned his PhD in 2017 with the dissertation entitled Naturalism, Quietism, and the Threat to Philosophy. His main research areas are social ontology and social epistemology, Wittgenstein and metaphysics (especially critical perspectives on naturalism). His research commonly focuses on themes at the intersection of theoretical and practical philosophy and aims to combine insights from both the analytic and “continental” tradition.

thomas.j.spiegel@gmail.com

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.26, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Alexey is a research associate at the Chair for Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam. His main research interests include Philosophy of Spirit, Logic and Aesthetics with a historical focus on Critical Theory and German Idealism. In his PhD project he is developing an extended conception of spontaneity in Kant and Hegel.

weissmueller@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.05, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Felicitas is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Applied Ethics at the University of Potsdam. With relation to the CPKP, she is interested in questions of time-dimensions of human responsibility, and in the emotional and motivational underpinnings of sustainable behavior. Currently, she is working on conceptual and normative issues around biodiversity, food security, and A.I. in the “Anthropocene.” She has a background in German Idealism and in American (Neo-) Pragmatism and its European roots.

felicitas.kraemer@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.11, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

Jonathan Dési

Jonathan Dési is studying Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. Since April 2021 he is a student assistant at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind.

desi@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.05, 14469 Potsdam

Emilie Maes

Emilie Maes studies Philosophy and German Studies at the University of Potsdam and is a student assistant at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind since April 2021.

emaes@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.05, 14469 Potsdam

Moses Ruge

Moses Ruge studies philosophy in a master’s program at the University of Potsdam and has been a student assistant at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind since April 2023.

moruge@uni-potsdam.de

University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, House 11, Room 2.05, 14469 Potsdam