Dr. Katharina Anna Sodoma

Personal information

Katharina Anna Sodoma is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at LMU Munich. Before coming to Munich, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Duisburg-Essen. She completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Vienna in April 2020.

DFG-Projekt Just Empathy – Emotionally Engaged Perspective-Taking under Conditions of Oppression

Research interests

Katharina’s research focuses on topics at the intersection of ethics and political philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. She is currently working on the role of affective empathy under conditions of social inequality. In addition, she is interested in feminist philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of early analytic philosophy.

Selected publications

1. Sodoma, K.A.: What is the object of an empathetic emotion? Philosophical Studies 183 (1), 337-355 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02447-0.

2. Sodoma, K.A.: Why Severe Moral Transgressions are Often Difficult to Understand. Philosophical Explorations 27 (2), 144–156 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2024.2344974.

3. Sodoma, K.A.: Testimony of Oppression and the Limits of Empathy. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 27, 185–202 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-023-10430-z.

4. Sodoma, K.A. & Sharp, D.: Democratic Empathy and Affective Polarization. Social Philosophy Today 39: 71–87 (2023). https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday202368101.

5. Sodoma, K.A. (2022): Emotional Gaslighting and Affective Empathy. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (3): 320–38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2022.2121894.