Karen Koch

is currently a Fritz-Thyssen fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin working on a project on the relation between mechanism and inner purposiveness in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. Her research focus is on Kant and German Idealism. She has also interests in contemporary philosophy of biology and feministic issues. Her thesis “Denken in Zwecken. Bedeutung und Status der Teleologie in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants und Hegels“ will be published next year in the Hegel-Studien Beihefte.