Professor

E-Mail: raphael.vanriel@uni-due.de  

Room: R12 V04 D21

Raphael van Riel is interested in a variety of topics, mainly in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of language and in metaphysics. At the moment, he mainly works on questions in the philosophy of the social sciences and on scientific and non-scientific explanation.

Adjunct Professor

E-Mail: thorsten.sander@uni-due.de

Room: R12 V02 D94

Thorsten Sander specializes in philosophy of language. More recently, he has been working on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege and on various kinds of non-at-issue contents.

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: stefan.rinner@uni-due.de

Room: R12 V04 D89

Stefan Rinner's research focuses on the philosophy of language and related areas, such as philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics. He is currently working on the semantics and pragmatics of hate speech and political speeches, the philosophy of language of psychotherapy, propositional attitudes and their ascription, the semantics of referential expressions and skeptical arguments in connection with semantic externalism.

Research Associate

E-Mail: lars.daenzer@uni-due.de

Room: R12 V02 D94

Lars Dänzer is interested in a wide range of topics in both theoretical and practical philosophy. His areas of specialisation lie in and at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/psychology and epistemology.

Research Associate

E-Mail: eugenia.kulakova@charite.de

Eugenia Kulakova holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience and is currently doing research in early childhood traumatization as a clinical psychologist. In addition to her scientific activity, she works as a psychotherapist.

Humboldt Fellow

E-Mail: jrturner1711@gmail.com

James Turner has a general research interest in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, and the philosophy of psychiatry. In particular, he is interested in a number of philosophical questions surrounding low mood and depression, including questions regarding the evolution of the low mood system, the intentional content of low mood, and depression's status as a mood disorder. He also works in the philosophy of AI, where he takes a functional approach to understanding whether AI systems could have states with representational content.

Doctoral Student

E-Mail: marius.mumbeck@stud.uni-due.de

Marius Mumbeck is primarily interested in the philosophy of language, particularly in pragmatics. In his dissertation project, he is researching the interconnection between the social functions of expressions and their meaning.

Research Associate / Doctoral Student

E-Mail: kai.ploemacher@uni-due.de

Kai Ploemacher is interested in topics at the intersection of philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. He currently works on functional explanations in the philosophy of language.

Student Assistant

E-Mail: corinne.bastian@stud.uni-due.de

Student Assistant

E-Mail: maxima.fuhrmann@stud.uni-duisburg-essen.de

Student Assistant

E-Mail: emre.yueksel@stud.uni-due.de

Former Staff Members

Former Chair

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Spitzley, Prof. i.R.

Former Research Associates​

• Dr. Lukas Schwengerer (now University of Graz)

Former Student Assistants

• Lukas Baumgarten
• Kimberly Brett