Projects

Ongoing and completed research projects

Schriftzug »Philosophie« am UHG

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Schriftzug »Philosophie« am UHG
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  • Digital Database on Exile Philosophy (2026-2029)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Project management: Prof. Dr Christoph Demmerling
    Collaborators: Dr Nicholas Coomann
    Dr Max Beck

  • Innovation Pool Framework Agreement V: Judgement formation and teaching advice as cross-cutting topics in teacher training (2022-2025)
    Project management: Dr Mario Ziegler
    Collaborator: Peter Starke
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link

  • Koselleck project: How to deal with racism, anti-Semitism and sexism in works of classical German Philosophy? (2022-2027)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head of the sub-project: Prof Dr Andrea Marlen Esser (Jena)
    Collaboration: Dr Hannah Peaceman, Dr Sebastian Bandelin, Maximilian Huschke, Karolin Stüber, Maria Merz (research assistant)
    Joël Ben-Yehoshua (Assoc.), Peggy H. Breitenstein (Assoc.)
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link

  • Collaborative Research Centre/Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 294 "Structural Change of Property" (2020-2024)
    Subproject A06: The Normative Foundations of Property. Freedom, communal and sustainable property.
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head of the sub-project: Prof Dr Andrea Marlen Esser (Jena), Prof Dr Tilo Wesche (Oldenburg)
    Collaboration in the sub-project: Yann Schosser, Jacob Blumenfeld, Niklas Angebauer
    Further information: MessageExternal link

  • In-service certification programme "Trainer of Trainers 2 (AuAu)"(sub-project of "PROFJL² Professionalisation from the beginning in the Jena Model of Teacher Education") (2019-2023)
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the "Quality Initiative forTeacher Education"External link
    Head: Dr Mario Ziegler
    Collaboration: Prof. Dr Anke John, Prof. Dr Michael May, Priv.-Doz. Dr Karin Kleinespel, Prof. Dr Alexander Gröschner, Florian Hesse, Peter Starke
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link

  • Scientific network "Argumentation at school" (2019-2023)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Dr David Löwenstein
    Collaboration (institute): Dr Peggy H. Breitenstein, Dr Mario Ziegler, Dr Falk Bornmüller
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link
  • "Reception and Continuation of Philosophy in the School of Nisibis. Commenting on and analysing Barhadbeschabba's cause for the establishment of the schools' teaching period (c. 600)" (2018-2019)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Prof Dr Matthias Perkams
    Collaboration: Priv.-Doz. Dr Alexander M. Schilling

  • "Political judgement" (2018-2019)
    Funding: Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
    Head: Prof Dr Andrea Marlen Esser
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link

  • Teaching innovation project "Integrative argumentation didactics" (2018-2019)
    Funding: Academy for Teaching Development at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
    Head: Dr David Löwenstein and Dr Peggy H. Breitenstein
    Collaboration: Alexandra Gebauer and Natalie Pfaff
  • "Philosophy of Colours" (2017-2020)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Prof. Dr Lambert Wiesing
    Collaboration: Dr Thomas Jahn
  • "Hegel and Italy" (2016-2017)
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, Villa Vigoni
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "Understanding, Meaningfulness and Practical Concepts" (2014-2017)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Prof Dr Christoph Demmerling
    Collaboration: Dirk Schröder, M.A.
  • "Classics, Popularity, Crisis" (2014-2017)
    Funding: Thuringian Ministry of Education Science and Culture
    Head: Prof. Dr Lambert Wiesing
    Collaboration: Dr Silke Müller
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link
  • "Augustine and the Freedom from Death, Platonic Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul in Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae and De quantitate animae" (2013-2018)
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) (in DFG-PAK 759 "Metamorphoses of Death")
    Head: Prof Dr Matthias Perkams
    Collaboration: Maria Herzog
  • "Commentary on Wittgenstein - Logical-Philosophical Treatise/Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (2013-2016)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Priv.-Doz. Dr Wolfgang Kienzler
    Further information: Project description
  • "The 'End of Art'" (2013-2014)
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service ("German-Italian Dialogues")
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "Reinhold, Schulze and the post-Kantian scepticism debate" (2013-2014)
    Funding: Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Swiss National Science Foundation
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • ProExcellence project "Education for freedom - diagnosis of time and theory following Hegel" (2009-2012)
    Funding: ProExcellence project of the state of Thuringia
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "The Topicality of Romanticism" (2009-2011)
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, Monash University Melbourne
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "From the Philosophy of Language to the Image of Man. The 'productive hermeneutics' and activity theory of Georg Misch, Josef König and Michail Bachtin." (2007-2010)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Prof. Dr Andrea Marlen Esser, Professor Dr Dr Mathias Gutmann (KIT Karlsruhe)
    Collaboration: Dr Dr habil. Maja Soboleva, Dr Michael Weingarten
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link

  • "Hegel's Theory of Free Will" (2007-2009)
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, Universities of Padua and Rome
    Director: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "Concept and Metaphor - Hegel and Nietzsche" (2005-2008)
    Sponsorship: TransCoop project of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the University of Washington Seattle
    Director: Prof. Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "Kant's 'Critique of the Power of Judgement'" (since 2005)
    Editing project as part of the new edition of Kant's Academy Edition, published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Critical edition of the text and factual annotations.
    Funding: RWTH Aachen, Philipps-Universität Marburg, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
    Editor: Prof. Dr Andrea Marlen Esser
    Further information: Project websiteExternal link
  • "Friedrich Schlegel and Hegel on Scepticism" (1996-1998)
    Funding: German Academic Exchange Service, University of Washington Seattle
    Director: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg

  • "Hegel's Jena Philosophy of Nature" (1994-1997)
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Head: Prof Dr Klaus Vieweg