Evgenia Sonnabend
Evgenia Sonnabend works on a PhD project aimed at disentangling the relationship between Hegel’s Science of Logic and his Realphilosophie, departing from his concepts of identity and recognition. Her supervisors are Philipp Schwab (Freiburg) and Dina Emundts (Berlin). Her research interests encompass: 1) post-Kantian philosophy from a historical perspective and 2) from a systematic perspective, foundations of epistemology, metaphysics and critique of metaphysics, debates concerning the systematic vs. process philosophy, as well as social philosophy and philosophy of right.
Panagiotis-Alexandros Duskos
works on a PhD project on the power of imagination in Fichte’s theoretical philosophy at University of Potsdam, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy (advisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Haag). His interests are in the field of Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy, especially Fichte and Hegel, Intentionality, and Philosophy of Mind.
Myriam Stihl
is a doctoral researcher at the ,Human Abilities. Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ and PhD-Candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (supervisor: Tobias Rosefeldt). Myriam works on the intersection of Kant’s views on time, mereology, and cognitive capacities.
Emanuel Kapfinger
works on a PhD project which connects Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary culture critique (supervisor: Frieder Otto Wolf). He also works on theory of fascism, 1968, materialist dialectics, Critical Theory, and Marxism.
Patrycja Pendrakowska
works on a PhD project with the working title „The Chinese speaking appropriation of Hegel. The case studies of He Lin’s introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Lesser Logic”.
Rodrigo Maruy van den Broek
works on a PhD with the title “Recht und sozialer Wandel: Zur immanenten Kritik eines modernen Widerspruchs” (advisors: Rahel Jaeggi, Christoph Möllers). He is also interested in the reception of Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Right in the Frankfurt School tradition of Critical Theory.
Marharyta Rouba
works on a PhD project with the title ‘The concept of the ‘transcendental subject’ in Kant’s philosophy: a systematic and historical investigation’ (advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt). Her interests are also in the field of the early reception of the Critique of Pure Reason and contemporary metaphysics.
Friederike Allner
works on a PhD project with the title ‘Critique of Abstraction — Ways of Concretion. Elements of Concrete Normativity with Hegel, Gadamer and Derrida”. Advisors: Georg Bertram (philosophy), Bertram Lomfeld (law studies). She is also interested in Early Modern Philosophy, especially Leibniz and Spinoza.
Christoph Honold
works on a PhD project with the title »The living measure. On the immanent normativity of labor according to Hegel and Marx« (advisors: Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig), Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)). The aim of the project is to clarify the normative foundations of critical theory on the basis of an analysis of the human form of life. Christoph Honold’s research focuses on German idealism and critical theory.
Isabel Sickenberger
is a research associate at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam. Her main research interests are in the field of post-Kantian philosophy, especially German Idealism and Hegel, philosophy of mind, social philosophy, and Critical Theory. In her dissertation (advisor: Thomas Khurana) she is working on the question of the form of spiritual life.