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Johanna Seibt

Associate Professor, Ph. D., Dr. phil. habil.

 

Tel: +45 8942 1976
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Office:  bldg. 1467  room 617

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Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
DK - 8000 Århus C
Denmark

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Research areas

Education, teaching and philosophy

Metaphysics and Ontology

Education:

Dr. phil. habil., University of Konstanz, Germany
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, USA
MA University of Pittsburgh, USA
MA University of Munich, Germany (Philosophy, Linguistics, Logic and Philosophy of Science)
BA Hochschule für Philosophie, S.J., Munich, Germany

Research Areas: 

Ontology and Metaphysics
  • Systematic issues in analytical ontology
  • identity of objects and persons
  • nominalism
  • mereology
  • formal process ontology
  •  methodology of ontology
  • ontological category theory
  • axiomatic reconstruction of substance ontology
  • metaphysical neutrality
  • History of ontology
  • expositions and transpositions of substance metaphysics

History of philosophy

  • programs of metaphilosophical revision (Hegel, Whitehead, Carnap, Heidegger)
  • the philosophy of Leibniz
  • contemporary American philosophy
  • the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars

New research interests:

  • Applications of ontology in computer science
  • Implications of linguistic typology for ontological category theory
  • ethical orientation
  • conflict
  • philosophy of technology 
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