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 and related areas in philosophy, such as epistemology or meta ethics. There is work on foundational questions concerning natural language semantics, about the pragmatics-semantics interface, about relativism vs. contextualism in semantics, on non-truth-conditional aspects of meaning, on slurs and derivatives, on propositions and semantic content (structured vs unstructured) and on concepts and conceptual engineering.
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
3) moral theory, especially consequentialist ethics
4) republican political philosophy
More information can be found at:
felixpinkert.com
Department of Education
- Ass.-Prof. Dr Sabine Grenz (Privatdozentin)
Research Focus:
Gender Studies: postsecularity, sexualities, history of gendered knowledge, intersectionality, feminist methodologies
More information can be found at:
https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/gender-studies/personal/sabine-grenz/
- 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