Universität Münster
Philosophisches Seminar
Domplatz 23
D-48143 Münster
Tel.: ++49 (0)251 83- 2 43 83
thein@uni-muenster.de
Raum: 333
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Aufgrund eines Forschungssemester keine reguläre Sprechstunde im WiSe 2026/27 (Anfragen per Mail)
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The professorship conducts research on the philosophical aspects and foundations of teaching and learning as well as education. One focus is on the theoretical, meta-philosophical and empirical research of processes of understanding and judgment-formation in philosophical learning- and teaching-settings. The professorship also focuses on questions of political, ethical and philosophical Democracy Education from both interdisciplinary and subject-specific perspectives. In this context, it analyses the interactions between public and school discourses on questions of the political, cultural, and social that are characterized by fundamental normative dissent and conflict. Accordingly, the educational research is embedded in the broad context of social and political philosophy and theory. Here, the professorship focuses on the application of concepts from Critical Theory (in the broadest sense) and applied philosophy to questions of educational practice.
In the field of philosophical research, the professorship works on current systematic questions of Social and Political Philosophy, Theory of Society, Philosophy of Language, and Ethics. With regard to the historical perspectives of research, it concentrates on modern philosophy, with an emphasis on Classical German Philosophy and its reception history. Furthermore, a meta-theoretical interest concerns the various methodological approaches to the history of philosophy, especially reconstructive and genealogical ones.