Archive of research projects and grants
The archive is home to the faculty's completed research projects and grants.
Free Logic: Variants, Unification, and Some Applications
The task of this project is the systematisation of free logics. The key difference from classical logic lies especially in alternative forms of modality, identity and quantification. The project focuses on neutral free logic, which has been less well studied up to this point.
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2024
- People: Dr. Norbert Gratzl, Dr. Edi Pavlović
- Chair: Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language, MCMP
The Bayesian Approach to Robust Argumentation Machines
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 2021 - 2024
- People: Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
Climate Models and Climate Scientific Understanding
- Funded by: DAAD
- Project duration: 01.10.2023 - 30.09.2024
- People: Dr. Gabriel Tarziu
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
The Future of Philosophy of Religion
This project aims to renew the philosophy of religion, by introducing approaches from the German-speaking tradition of philosophy of religion into the international debate. The goal is to initiate a process of reflection within philosophy of religion and to enable a fruitful re-orientation of research.
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024
- People: Prof. Georg Gasser (Uni Augsburg)
- Chair: Professorship of Philosophy of Religion
Black Holes and Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime
- Funded by: Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership
- Project duration: 2022 - 2024
- People: Dr. John Dougherty und Dr. Aron Wall (Cambridge)
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
Artificial Intelligence and Distributive Justice
It is the aim of this research project to investigate questions of distributive justice in connection with artifical intelligence, especially in regards to the central concepts of human well-being, equality and freedom. Certain functions of AI applications will be evaluated morally and made appropriate for the future realization of distributive justice.
- Funded by: BIDT
- Project duration: 01.12.2022 - 30.11.2024
- People: Dr. Korbinian Rüger
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Aesthetic Testimony in Science
- Funded by: Bavarian Gender Equality Grant (BGF)
- Project duration: 2023 - 2024
- People: Dr. Alice Murphy (Project leader)
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
Relational Normativity and Morality: Persons, Groups, Collectives
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.
- Funded by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Project duration: 1.11.2023 - 31.7.2024
- People: Prof. Dr. Herlinde Pauer-Studer
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
The Logic and Ontology of Khūnajī and His Successors
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.
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 1.10.2021 - 30.9.2024
- People: Dr. Behnam Zolghadrshojaei
- Chair: Chair of Late Ancient and Islamic Philosophy
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
- Chair:
What's Love Got To Do With It?
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.
- Funded by: Minerva-Stiftung
- Project duration: 1.4.2022 - 30.4.2024
- People: Dr. Danielle Levitan
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
The Weight of Numbers in Social Policy Making
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.
- Funded by: Leverhulme Trust, UK
- Project duration: 1.9.2022 - 31.8.2024
- People: Dr. Jessica Fischer
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Recognizing You - The Relational Nature of Morality
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.
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 1.9.2021 - 31.8.2024
- People: Dr. Jonas Vandieken
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Maria-Weber-Grant
- Funded by: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
- Project duration: 1.10.2023 - 30.9.2024
- People: Dr. Anna Wehofsits
- Chair: Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Realities of Logic?
Full title: Realities of Logic? Attempting a New Approach to Hegel's Science of Logic
- Funded by: Postdoc Support Fund
- Project duration: 1.4.2023 - 30.9.2023
- People: Dr. Thomas Oehl
- Chair: Chair of Theoretical Philosophy
The Therapeutic Game
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.
- Funded by: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
- Project duration: 1.10.2024 - 30.9.2026
- People: Dr. Stefan Rinner (principal investigator)
- Chair: Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Encounters with the Good: A Phenomenology of the Ideal
- Funded by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Project duration: 1.3.2022 - 30.8.2023
- People: Dr. Irene McMullin
- Chair:
Bavarian Gender Equality Grant Habilitation Scholarship
- Funded by: the Free State of Bavaria
- Project duration: 1.10.2022 - 30.9.2023
- People:
- Chair:
The Universe as an Open System
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 2021 - 2023
- People: Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
Logic: From Tolerance to Pluralism
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 17.9.2019 - 31.10.2023
- People: PD Dr. Martin Fischer
- Char: Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language, MCMP
Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World
- Funded by: ERC
- Project duration: 1.10.2018 - 30.9.2023
- People: Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson, Dr. Rotraud Hansberger, Dr. Tommaso Alpina, Dr. Jens Ole Schmitt, Dr. Michael Payne, Nicolas Payen MA, Dr. Hanif Aminbeidokhti
- Chair: Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
The Heirs of Avicenna
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 1.10.2016 - 30.9.2023
- People: Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson, Fedor Benevich, Sarah Virgi, Dustin Klinger, Michael Noble, Andreas Lammer
- Chair: Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts
Full title: Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts in the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Argumentation: Tension or Productive Interplay?
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 2020 - 2022
- People: Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann
- Chair: Chair of Philosophy of Science
"Religion", the "Political" and "Judaism" in classical German philosophy
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 2017 - 2022
- People: Dr. Amit Kravitz
- Chair: Chair of Metaphysics
Schelling's Philosophy of Human Freedom
- Funded by: DFG
- Project duration: 2014 - 2021
- People: Prof. Dr. Thomas Buchheim, Thomas Frisch M.A., Nora Wachsmann M.A.
- Chair: Chair of Metaphysics