Faculty of Philosophy and Education

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  • Department of Philosophy
    • Univ.-Prof. Max Kölbel, MA MPhil PhD

      Research Focus:
      There are research activities in a wide range of areas within the philosophy department. Max Kölbel’s group is active in the philosophy of language, epistemology, meta ethics, metaphilosophy (especially foundational questions concerning natural language semantics, the pragmatics-semantics interface, relativism vs. contextualism, non-truth-conditional aspects of meaning, slurs and derogatives, propositions and semantic content, conceptual engineering, philosophical method).

      More information can be found at:
      https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/
    • Ass.-Prof. Felix Pinkert   

      Research Focus:
      I am interested in supervising projects in the following subject areas. 
      1) topics at the intersection between philosophy and economics, esp. in relation to ethics and political Philosophy   
      2) climate ethics and environmental ethics   
      3) family and reproductive ethics   
      4) moral theory, especially consequentialist ethics

      More information can be found at:
      felixpinkert.com
    • Ass.-Prof. Dr. Donata Romizi, M.A.

      Research Focus
      Didactics of Philosophy and Ethics. Philosophical  Practice.

      More information can be found at
      univie.academia.edu/DonataRomizi
    • Univ.-Prof. Paulina Sliwa, PhD

      Research Focus
      Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy
  • Department of Education
    • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Schulte

      Research Focus:
      Our research unit of Comparative & International Education looks at the diffusion and adoption of educational concepts, ideologies, reforms, models, technologies, and practices across societies, with particular focus on how various actors navigate processes of cultural and political translation, appropriation, hybridization, contestation, and resistance; as well as on the multiple tensions and contradictions that arise from these processes. We work both on contemporary and historical developments, and have been conducting research primarily in and on Northern, Southern, and Western Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, East Asia, South Asia, and North and Latin America. We are specifically interested in questions such as:
      • How do processes of globalization and indigenization affect families, students, schools, teachers, universities, and academic fields? How do different groups within a society – elite, middle class, and marginalized actors – deal with these challenges?
      • In which ways, and for what reasons, do certain international educational ideas, policies, and practices gain traction locally, while others are ignored or rejected?
      • How does the different positioning in the hierarchies of the world system give rise to different challenges and pressures for educational actors at the national and regional levels?
      • How is the educational sector intertwined with other sectors, in particular those of the economy and politics, and how does that affect cross-sectional borrowing and lending?

      More information can be found at:
      https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/comparative-and-international-education/#c110527
    • Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Veronika Wöhrer

      Research Focus
      Intersectional approaches towards education and inequality;
      gendered aspects of education;
      school drop out;
      transition from school to work;
      participatory action research

      More information can be found at
      https://ufind.univie.ac.at/en/person.html?id=19443