Martin Huth

Academic Career

• Since 03/2023: Post Doc at the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck
• 11/2021-10/2024: PI of the research project The Limits of Imagination: Animals, Empathy, Anthropomorphism (P 35137-G), funded by the FWF
• 2011-2023: Post Doc at the Messerli Research Institute (University of Vienna/Medical University, Vienna/University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna)
• 2008-2023: Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
• 2004-2007: Doctorate programme Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
• 31.1. 2007 Graduation with a dissertation thesis on biomedical ethics and medicine from a phenomenological perspective
• 1998-2004: Study of philosophy and history at the University of Vienna

Focus in Research and Teaching

• Ethics
• Applied ethics (biomedical ethics; ethics of human-animal interactions; environmental ethcis)
• Political theory
• Disability Studies
• Phenomenology and political phenomenology
• Theories of vulnerability
• Theories on empathy and imagination

Memberships

• Member of the National Commission for Animal Experimentation (according to the Austrian § 36 TVG 2012)

Publications (selection)

• Vulnerabilität, Solidarität und Gewalt. Zur Phänomenologie von Verletzlichkeit und Verantwortung. In: Michael Staudigl (eds.): Die Phänomenologie und das Politische. Freiburg: Alber (forthcoming; 2025).
• Zwischen Pathos und Spur. Phänomenologische Untersuchungen zur Erfahrung von Vulnerabilität. In: Claudia Peter, Marc Strotmann und Moritz von Stetten (eds.): Phänomenologische Perspektiven auf die Soziologie der Affekte (forthcoming; 2025).
• Soziale Mobilität als Einpassung. Zur institutionellen Herausforderung leiblicher Orientierung. In: Camilla Angeli, Michaela Bstieler und Stephanie Schmidt: Schauplätze der Verletzbarkeit. Berlin: de Gruyter (2024).
• Zwischen Pathos und Spur. Phänomenologische Untersuchungen zur Erfahrung von Vulnerabilität. In: Claudia Peter, Marc Strotmann und Moritz von Stetten (eds.): Phänomenologische Perspektiven auf die Soziologie der Affekte (2023).
• Menschenbilder in der Tier- und Naturethik. In: Michael Zichy (eds.): Handbuch Menschenbilder (mit Andreas Aigner und Herwig Grimm; 2023).
• Restricted by measures against the coronavirus? Difficulties at the transition from school to work in times of a pandemic. In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 42 (1), 83-99, 2023 (with Julian Möhring, Dennis Schäfer and Burkhard Brosig).
• Das Konzept des Empowerment und seine ethischen Implikationen. In: Andrea Riedel, Sonja Lehmeyer (eds.): Reference Ethik im Gesundheitswesen. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 125-141, 2023.
• Veterinary responsibility for antibiotic resistance. In: Anne Bruce und Donald Bruce (eds.): Transforming Food Systems: Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers: 334-339, 2022 (with Johanna Karg).
• Vulnerabel-sein und -werden: Die Corona-Pandemie im Lichte einer Phänomenologie der Vulnerabilität. In: Journal Phänomenologie 54: 8-27, 2021.
• The Dialectics of Vulnerability. Can we Produce Vulnerability by Emphasizing its Normative Significance? In: Philosophy Today 63 (2): 557-576, 2020. (peer reviewed)
• Introduction: Dimensions of Vulnerability. In: Philosophy Today 63 (2): 537-555, 2020. (with Gerhard Thonhauser)
• How to Recognize Animals’ Vulnerability. Questioning the Orthodoxies of Moral Individualism and Relationalism in Animal Ethics. In: Animals 10 (2): 235, 2020. Veterinarians between the frontlines?! The concept of One Health and three frames of health in veterinary medicine. In: Food Ethics. A Journal of the Societies for Agricultural and Food Ethics. (2), 91-108, 2019 (with Kerstin Weich and Herwig Grimm).

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