Anne Siegetsleitner
University Professor
Academic Career

- 10/2013 Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Innsbruck
- 2012 Habilitation and authorisation to teach philosophy, University of Salzburg (Habilitation thesis: Ethik und Moral im Wiener Kreis. Zur Geschichte eines engagierten Humanismus, Böhlau 2014)
- 2011 Visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna
- 2007–2011 FWF-Elise-Richter position at the University of Salzburg
- 2001–2005 DFG project on Schlick's ethics and head of the BMBF junior research group on dignity in genetic engineering at the Ethics Centre of the University of Jena
- 1999–2001 FWF project on the Internet and privacy at the University of Salzburg
- 1999–2001 1st degree (with honours) in law, University of Salzburg
- 04/1999 Doctorate in Philosophy (with honours), University of Salzburg (Dissertation: Rechte auf Privathiet: Begriff, Begründung und Relevanz für E-Mail im Internet)
- 01–06/1998 Teaching Assistant at the Philosophy Department of the University of California at Irvine, USA
- 07/1997 Degree in Philosophy (with honours), University of Salzburg
- 1996/1997 Federal scholarship holder at the Ethics Research Centre, University of Zurich
- 04–06/1993 Exchange student at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Fribourg
- 1987–03/1993 Mag. phil. in Philosophy, Psychology, Education and German Philology (LA) (with honours), University of Salzburg Thesis: Wissenschaftsfreiheit und die Singer-Debatte
Functions and memberships
- Head of the Department of Philosophy (2021–2025)
- Member of the University of Innsbruck's Senate (2022–2025), substitute member (2014–2016)
- Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice (2021–2023)
- Substitute member of the Gene Technology Commission of the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (2020–2024)
- Substitute member of the Advisory Board for Quality Agreements at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty (2020–2024)
- President of the Austrian Society of Philosophy (2017–2021), since 2021 member of the presiding committee
- Deputy Chair of the Curriculum Commission of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2016–2022)
- Member of the FWF-Kuratorium (Subject officer for philosophy/theology and cultural studies, term of office 2017–2020)
- Co-editor of the Series Angewandte Ethik of the Karl Alber publishing company
- Further memberships: FSP Kulturelle Begegnungen - Kulturelle Konflikte, FZ Medical Humanities, DK Medizinrecht und Gesundheitswesen
Focuses in Research and Teaching
- General ethics, metaethics, history of ethics (ethics and morality in the Vienna Circle), possibilities of normative ethics, concept of norms
- Applied ethics: Information and media ethics (including protection of privacy), bioethics (genetic and reproductive technology, pregnancy, euthanasia, concept of dignity), ethics committees, feminist ethics, theoretical foundations of applied ethics
- Cultural and social philosophy: Gender relations, family forms, social philosophy of Bernard Bolzano and Karl R. Popper
- Philosophical anthropology: Philosophy of age(ing), transhumanism
- Philosophy of politics and law: Hannah Arendt, concept of honour, democracy and religion, legal positivism, natural law, responsibility, Kant's law of marriage
- History of philosophy: Logical empiricism, women philosophers
Recent and Selected Publications
- Siegetsleitner, Anne (interviewed) 2024: Güteklasse (eco.nova). 02.09.2024
- Siegetsleitner, Anne (interviewed) 2024: „Trotz allen Fortschritts ist es nicht die KI, die Verantwortung trägt. Universitätsprofessorin Anne Siegetsleitner zu Fragen der Ethik in der Forschung", in: Haymon Verlag Magazin. 23.02.2024.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2023: "Review Essay: Carnap and the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 and 2", in: Cantù, Paola; Schiemer, Georg (eds.): Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories – From Peano to the Vienna Circle. Cham: Springer Nature (= Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 29), pp. 311–316.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2023: "Die Bedeutung der Ethik in einer zunehmend technisierten Medizin", in: Journal für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie/Österreich, vol. 33, pp. 142–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41974-023-00288-5.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2023: "Die Reichen, die Gerechtigkeit und das Erben", in: Die Furche. September 21, 2023, p. 8.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2022: “Noncognitivism”, in: Uebel, Thomas/Limbeck-Lilienau, Christoph (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism. Routledge, pp. 168–175.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2022: “Die Covid-19-Pandemie und Anerkennung”, in: Vieweg, K./ Kodalle, K.-M/ Knoepffler, N. (eds.): Hegel, Krise und Corona – Hegels Aktualität für heutige Konflikte. Series Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie 22, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 33–44.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2022: “Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle”, in: Damböck C., Tuboly A.T. (eds.): The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge. Cham: Springer Nature (= Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 26), pp. 17–31.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80363-6_2 - Siegetsleitner, Anne/Oberprantacher, Andreas/Frick, Marie-Luisa/Metschl, Ulrich (eds.) 2021: Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events. Proceedings of the 42nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium. DeGruyter.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2020: "Who Bears Moral Responsibility in the Case of Autonomous Artifical Intelligence?", in: Hengstschläger, Markus/Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development (eds.): Digital Transformation and Ethics. Ecowin Publisher, pp. 118–133.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2020: “Jodl, Friedrich (1849–1914)”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/home
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2020: "Notizen einer Philosophin im Ausnahmezustand. Hannah Arendt zum Gedenken". 26.04.2020. Beitrag zum Projekt “Das Triakontameron”: http://triakontameron.de/31-tag/
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2019: “Carnaps Autobiographie als Autobiographie”, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 236–250.
- Siegetsleitner, Anne 2017: “Philipp Frank on Relativity in Science and Morality”, in: Studies in East European Thought, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 215–225.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-017-9290-0
Further publications, lectures etc. since 2013 (Forschungsleistungsdokumentation)
- Telefon: +43 512 507 40204
- Telefax: +43 512 507 2891
- E-mail: anne.siegetsleitner@uibk.ac.at