Dr. Thomas Oehl

On paternity leave in the 2024/25 academic year

Chair of Theoretical Philosophy

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Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

Room A 223

80539 München

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In the lecture-free period, summer 2024: holiday office hours on 30 August, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. via Zoom (prior arrangement by e-mail is compulsory)

Personal information

Thomas Oehl is a Research Associate and, in the 2023/24 academic year, Interim Professor at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy. He teaches and researches on the central subject areas of theoretical philosophy, especially epistemology and metaphysics. His specialisms here are philosophy of perception, theories of self-consciousness, conceptions of love and corporeality, as well as questions on the border between philosophy and theology. Thomas Oehl develops systematic work on these issues mainly by engaging with two currents of philosophical history, which he brings together with a systematic intention: classical German philosophy (primarily Kant and Hegel as well as their reception) and early analytic philosophy (primarily Wittgenstein and his reception).

Curriculum vitae

2023 - 2024: Interim Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, LMU Munich
2020: Doctorate in Philosophy (summa cum laude), LMU Munich
2019 -: Research Associate (100%), Chair of Theoretical Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Axel Hutter); coordinator of the special Master program in Theoretical Philosophy (on leave 2023/24 to become Interim Professor).
2018: Visiting Scholar, University of Pittsburgh (host: John McDowell)

2014 - 2016: Research Associate (50%), Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, LMU Munich
2012: Visiting Student, Queen's College, University of Oxford (host: Peter Hacker)
2010 - 2014: MA in Philosophy, Evangelical Theology and Greek Philology, LMU Munich
2009 - 2012: BA in Philosophy, LMU Munich

Complete CV including lectures and teaching (PDF, 186 KB)

Selected publications

Oehl, T.: Hegel über die logische Form geteilter Überzeugungen. In: Kluck, S. & Wunsch, M. (eds.): Geistige Allmende und objektiver Geist. Überindividuelle Phänomene menschlicher Lebenswelten (forthcoming 2024)
Oehl, T.: Wittgenstein on the pictorial roots of referentialism. Inquiry 66(6): 1069–1093 (2023).
Oehl, T.: Lässt sich der Geist kommentieren? Zu neuen kommentarischen Werken zu Hegel und Adorno. Philosophische Rundschau 70(3): 267–325 (2023).
Oehl, T.: Freie Charakterbildung in oder jenseits der Zeit? Schellings Konzept der intelligiblen Tat im Spiegel gegenwärtiger Debatten. In: Buchheim, T. & Frisch, T. & Wachsmann, N. (eds.): Schellings Freiheitsschrift – Methode, System, Kritik. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021: 385–404.
Oehl, T.: Die Aktivität der Wahrnehmung und die Metaphysik des Geistes. Eine aktualisierende Lektüre von Hegels Philosophie des Geistes. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Oehl, T.: Drei Bedeutungen von ‚Identität‘ bei Kant, Fichte und Hegel. Kant-Studien 111(3): 470–502 (2020).
Oehl, T.: Spirit’s Self-Knowledge, History, and the Absolute. Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos 15(25): 100–134 (2018).
Oehl, T.: Selbstbewusstsein und absoluter Geist. In: Oehl, T. & Kok, A. (eds.): Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel. Kunst, Religion und Philosophie innerhalb und außerhalb von Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018: 353–388.
Oehl, T. & Kok, A. (eds.): Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel. Kunst, Religion und Philosophie innerhalb und außerhalb von Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018.
Oehl, T.: „Als ob“. Entry in: Willaschek, M. & Stolzenberg, J. & Mohr, G. & Bacin, S. (eds.): Kant-Lexikon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015: 50–54.

Complete list of publications (PDF, 122 KB)

Academic distinctions

2024 - 2027 Habilitation scholarship, Agnes-Ament-Stiftung
2023 Project funding, Postdoc Support Fund, LMU Munich
2022 Teaching Excellency Award, Fachschaft Philosophie, LMU Munich
2021 Teaching Excellency Award, Fachschaft Philosophie, LMU Munich
2020 Doctoral fund prize, Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft
2016 - 2020 Doctoral scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Research projects

2020 - Liebe: Metaphysik und Metaphysikkritik, funded by the Agnes-Ament-Stiftung (2024 - 2027)
2022 - 2023 Wirklichkeiten der Logik?, funded by the Postdoc Support Fund, LMU Munich (2023)
2016 - 2020 Die Aktivität der Wahrnehmung und die Metaphysik des Geistes, funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Teaching

Dr. Oehl's current courses can be found on LSF.

In the 2023/24 academic year, Dr. Oehl will lead the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy's Absolventen- und Masterkolloquium (Graduand and Master Colloquium), in which final dissertations and research works in the field of theoretical philosophy will be presented, in addition to selected guest lectures.

Other activities

2021 - co-organizer, ThPhil|Workshop, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, LMU
2019 - board member, Hilke und Wolfhart Pannenberg-Stiftung
2016 co-organizer, Project UniTag (event for gifted school pupils), LMU Munich
2015 - 2016 member of an AG company aimed at improving teaching in the subject of Philosophy (on the initiative of the Fachschaft Philosophie), LMU Munich