Department of Christian Philosophy

To study Philosophy in Innsbruck:

Institutum Philosophicum Oenipontanum

Karl-Rahner-Platz 1
A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel.: +43(0)512-507/8521
Fax: +43(0)512-507/2736
e-mail:christliche-philosophie@uibk.ac.at

Head of Department:
Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Bruno Niederbacher
Secretaries:
Monika Datterl, Ksenia Scharr

Welcome to the Homepage of the Department of Philosophy at the Theological Faculty Innsbruck!

We are a lively group of philosophers engaged in a number of fascinating reseach projects. The Department offers competitive graduate and undergraduate programs covering a wide range of fields in core areas of philosophy. Among the special strengths of the Department are classical and modern metaphysics, scholastic philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of persons and ethics. Additionally, we are among the leading Central European institutions in analytic philosophy of religion.

Learn more about us: Why study philosophy? Information for students

NEWS:

July 31 - August 2, 2013: International Conference "The Ontological Commitments of Dispositionalism", Hotel Grauer Bär (Universitätsstraße 5-7).

June 5, 2013: Guest lecture: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma, USA): Omnisubjectivity, 18:00, Seminarraum VI (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3).

June 4, 2013: Workshop on Epistemic Authority with Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Claudia Paganini wins the 2. Innsbruck Science Slam on 18.04. with her marvellous presentation!

Documentation on "Vergänglicher Leib - ewige Seele?" with extensive interviews with Prof. H. Goller and Prof. C. Kanzian, aired on Bayern Alpha.

New article: Niederbacher, Bruno, Emotion und Entscheidung - Erkenntnistheoretische Bemerkungen zur kognitiven Funktion affektiver Zustände in den Geistlichen Übungen des Ignatius von Loyola. In: Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 135, 2013, 212-229.

New article: Johannes Grössl, "Gott als Liebe denken - Anliegen und Optionen des Offenen Theismus", Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 54 (4), 469-488.
Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, 16.1.13, page N4.

New article: Anne Sophie Spann, „Dualität im Horizont des Physischen. Thomas Buchheims ‚horizontaler Dualismus‘ als Antwort auf das Problem mentaler Verursachung“, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 120 (1), 2013, 142-151.

New article: Georg Gasser, Worldviews, the Problem of Evil, and Rational Discourse: Thoghts on the Framework of Stump's Defence. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4/3 (Autumn 2012), 137-153.

New book: Georg Gasser und Matthias Stefan (Hrsg.): Personal Identity. Complex or Simple? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

New book: Bruno Niederbacher, Erkenntnistheorie moralischer Überzeugungen. Ein Entwurf. (Philosophische Analyse, Band 45) Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag 2012.

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