Archive of research projects and grants

The archive is home to the faculty's completed research projects and grants.

Relational Normativity and Morality: Persons, Groups, Collectives

Relational Normativity and Morality: Persons, Groups, Collectives (2023 - 2024)

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At the core of this research project are relational explanations of morality: in contrast with other theories which link morality with interpersonal mental objectives like the will and motivation, relational theories seem to be able to integrate larger structures like groups or organizations. The aim of the project lies in the investigation of the potential of relational theories, especially in regards to the question of individual and collective responsibility.

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The Logic and Ontology of Khūnajī and His Successors

Logic and Ontology in Khūnajī and His Successors (2021 - 2024)

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This research project is devoted to logic and ontology in the works of Afḍal al-dīn al-Khūnajī and his successors. The aim is to investigate Khūnajī's logic, its ontological implications and its influence on later Islamic logicians.

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ESAI: Ethically Safe AI

In view of the development and application of AI-based processes and decisions, concepts such as risk, responsibility and error must be re-evaluated. This research project will, first and foremost, create a vocabulary for ethical concepts which can be applied to AI systems. Furthermore, risk-ethical problems will be illustrated using case studies.

  • Funded by: Fraunhofer-Institut für Kognitive Systeme (IKS)
  • Project leader : 1.4.2023 - 31.3.2024
  • People: Antonio Bikić
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What's Love Got To Do With It?

What's Love Got To Do With It? (2022 - 2024)

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While everything seemingly revolves around personal goods in intimate relationships, this project attempts to produce a perspective on the "bads" of personal relationships. The project thus engages with the value and benefits of personal relationships as well as current difficulties faced by moral theories.

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The Weight of Numbers in Social Policy Making

The Weight of Numbers in Social Policy Making (2022 - 2024)

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This project focuses on the question of the role of numbers in social policy decisions. It examines the general view that the political decision-making process requires consequentialist approaches.

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Recognizing You - The Relational Nature of Morality

Recognizing You - The Relational Nature of Morality (2021 - 2024)

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This research project brings into focus the thesis that the interpersonal domain of morality can be understood as a relational domain: interpersonal morality consists of directed obligations between the demands of individual people, from which the obligations derive their normative force.

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Maria-Weber-Grant

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Realities of Logic?

Full title: Realities of Logic? Attempting a New Approach to Hegel's Science of Logic

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The Therapeutic Game

The Therapeutic Game: The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Explained within the Context of Philosophy of Language (2024 - 2026)

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In the research project The Therapeutic Game: The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Explained within the Context of Philosophy of Language, principal investigator Dr. Stefan Rinner investigates the effects of psychotherapeutic practice from the perspective of philosophy of language.

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Encounters with the Good: A Phenomenology of the Ideal

Encounters with the Good: A Phenomenology of the Ideal (2022 - 2023)

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  • Funded by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • Project duration: 1.3.2022 - 30.8.2023
  • People: Dr. Irene McMullin
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Bavarian Gender Equality Grant Habilitation Scholarship

Bavarian Gender Equality Grant Habilitation Scholarship (2022 - 2023)

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  • Funded by: the Free State of Bavaria
  • Project duration: 1.10.2022 - 30.9.2023
  • People:
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The Universe as an Open System

The Universe as an Open System (2021-2023)

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Logic: From Tolerance to Pluralism

Logic: From Tolerance to Pluralism (2019 - 2023)

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Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World

Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World (2018 - 2023)

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The Heirs of Avicenna

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System and Negation

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Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts

Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts (2020 - 2022)

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Full title: Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts in the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Argumentation: Tension or Productive Interplay?

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"Religion", the "Political" and "Judaism" in classical German philosophy

"Religion", the "Political" and "Judaism" in classical German philosophy (2017 - 2022)

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Schelling's Philosophy of Human Freedom

Schelling's Philosophy of Human Freedom (2015 - 2021)

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The Interplay of Speculation and Imagination in Hegel's Encyclopedic System

The Interplay of Speculation and Imagination in Hegel's Encyclopedic System (2011 - 2014)

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