Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gäb

Professor

Professorship of Philosophy of Religion

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Schellingstr. 5

Room 008

80799 Munich

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Mondays 12:00 - 13:00
Schellingstr. 5. room 008
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Postal address:

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

80539 Munich

Personal Information

Sebastian Gäb is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and a member of the Center for Buddhism Studies at LMU Munich. He works in the tradition of analytic philosophy of religion, where his focus is on questions of mystical experience and religious language, secular spirituality, the philosophy of death and immortality, as well as Chinese and Buddhist philosophy.

Curriculum Vitae

2020: Staatsexamen examiner for the subject of Philosophy/Ethics at Bavarian universities
2019: Member of the Center for Buddhist Studies, LMU Munich
2019: Professor (W2) of Philosophy of Religion, LMU Munich
2012 - 2017: Coordinator of course organisation in the subject of Philosophy, Trier University

2012 - 2019: Director of the Philosophical Research Institute for Media and Culture, Trier University
2012: Doctorate in Philosophy, summa cum laude
2011 - 2013: Member of the research cluster "Evidence for Religious Convictions" of the Templeton Foundation's Analytic Theology project
2008 - 2019: Research Associate in Philosophy, Professorship of Theoretical Philosophy, Trier University

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Selected Publications

Sebastian Gäb: Die Philosophie des Buddha. Tübingen: Narr, 2024.
Sebastian Gäb: Religionsphilosophie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022.
Gäb, Sebastian; Gasser, Georg (eds.): Philosophie der Unsterblichkeit. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2023.
Sebastian Gäb: Was ist atheistische Spiritualität? Eine Analyse. Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie 145 (2023), 431-452.
Sebastian Gäb: Why you should be a religious skeptic. Philosophical Forum 54 (2023), 303-314.
Sebastian Gäb: Divine Minds. Idealism as panentheism in Berkeley and Vasubandhu. In: Göcke, Benedikt; Swami Medhananda (eds.): Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought: Cosmopolitan Interventions. London: Routledge, 2023, 118-137.
Sebastian Gäb: Nonpersonal immortality. Religious Studies 59 (2023), Online First.
Sebastian Gäb: Mysticism without concepts. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 90 (2021), 233-246.
Sebastian Gäb: Ineffability: the very concept. Philosophia 48 (2020), 1825-1836.
Sebastian Gäb: Why do we suffer? Buddhism and the Problem of Evil. Philosophy Compass 10 (2015), 345-353.

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Research Projects

DFG research network: The Future of Philosophy of Religion (2022 - 2025)

Teaching

Prof. Gäb's current courses can be found on LSF.

Prof. Gäb teaches regularly on the following subjects:

Introductions to philosophy of religion, classical Chinese philosophy and Buddhist philosophy.
The philosophy of death and immortality.
Arguments for and against the existence of God, contemporary debates in philosophy of religion.
Persons and personal identity, the philosophy of Thomas Nagel and analytic epistemology.