Visiting Scholars
Nina Dohn Nina Bonderup Dohn is an Associate Professor in humanistic information science at the University of Southern Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophical learning theory and a Masters Degree in philosophy and physics. Her research bridges epistemology and learning theory based on a view inspired by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and Dreyfus, of the human being as always already situated in meaningful contexts of action. Her main field of research is knowledge and learning in education and at work with a special focus on concepts such as tacit knowledge, embodiment, understanding and reflection and the possible changing role of these concepts in learning situations mediated by ICT.
Rolf Geiger Rolf Geiger (Dr. phil., University of Tübingen. He is teaching philosophy at the University of Tübingen. His primary research interest is in ancient philosophy. In addition, he has research interests in early modern philosophy and the history of political thought. He has published a book on the idea of dialectical virtues in the platonic dialogues and is currently writing on “Forms of Rule in Aristotle’s Politics”.
Gustavo Ortiz-Millan Gustavo Ortiz-Millán (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a research professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he teaches ethics and philosophy of mind. His primary interests are in ethical theory, moral psychology and the philosophy of emotions; he has published several articles on these areas. He has also developed an interest on practical ethics; recently he published the book La moralidad del aborto, which provides philosophical arguments for the depenalization of abortion in Mexico.
Friederike Rese Friederike Rese, PhD in Philosophy from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Graduated in 2002 with a doctoral thesis on Aristotle’s practical philosophy, published with Mohr Siebeck in 2003. From 2002 until 2008, she has been an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin) at the University of Freiburg.
Aihua Wang Ph.D in philosophy of language from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. Currently, I am an associate professor in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. My main areas of interest include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and linguistics. Now I am a member of the Council of China Association of Philosophy of Language (CAPL).
Marcus Willaschek Marcus Willaschek is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main. His publications include: Praktische Vernunft. Handlungstheorie und Moralbegründung bei Kant, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 1992; Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft (ed. with G. Mohr), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1998; Der mentale Zugang zur Welt. Realismus, Skeptizismus und Intentionalität, Frankfurt: Klostermann 2003; a three-volume Kant-Lexikon (ed. with G. Mohr and J. Stolzenberg) will appear in 2010 (Berlin: de Gruyter); numerous articles on Kant, the philosophy of action, on free will, and epistemology. He is currently working on a book on Kant’s conception of pure reason.
Visiting Student Researchers
Anna-Maria Eder Anna-Maria A. Eder is Doctoral Research Fellow at the KU Leuven, Belgium where she works in the research group “Formal Epistemology” led by Igor Douven. Her PhD thesis is on the assessment of scientific theories linked to decision theory. Anna-Maria’s primary research areas are general philosophy of science, formal epistemology, and philosophical logic.
Benjamin Kiesewetter Benjamin Kiesewetter (M.A.) studied philosophy, german literature, and cultural studies at the Humboldt-University, Berlin (Germany) and the University of Nottingham (UK) from 2001–2007. He is a research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the philosophy department, Humboldt-University Berlin, working on a PhD on normativity, rationality, and deliberation. He is also interested in the history of ethics (esp. Aristotle and Kant), freedom and autonomy, the rights of children, and other issues in moral philosophy and metaethics.
Song Li Song Li is a doctoral student majoring in linguistics at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Her primary research interests are in philosophy of language and pragmatics.
B. Scot Rousse B. Scot Rousse received his B.A. in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley, will receive his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2010, and has studied in Paris and in Frankfurt. In his dissertation he provides a reconstructive interpretation of the hermeneutic conception of the self at work in Heidegger’s Being and Time and critically situates it among positions in contemporary philosophy, in particular the work of Harry Frankfurt and Christine Korsgaard. You can see his CV here: http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/students/svr299/
Bruno Vaz Master Degree (UFSM); Doctorate (Puc-Rio), now completing. Philosophy student since 2000. Master in Philosophy at the University of Santa Maria (Brasil) and soon will finish the doctorate level at Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro. Interested in Philosophy of mathematics, especially geometry. Is writing a thesis about the role of the diagrams in geometrical proofs. The aim is to present a defense of Euclidean Proofs in the face of the criticisms towards a supposed “lack of rigor” in his reasoning.