Students

Olivier Bonianga Liama
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:Olivier.Bonianga-Liama@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Social Philosophy, Sociology, African Philosophy

Thesis: Über soziale Fakten: Searle versus Durkheim (On social facts: Searle vs. Durkheim)

First supervisor: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Quitterer

Co-Supervisor: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Hans Kraml

Maria Xavier Gnanadhas Joseph Raj, lic. theol.
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:jmxgnanadhas@gmail.com

Research area(s): Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Political Philosophy

Thesis: Epistemic Injustice and the Indian Caste System

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katherine Dormandy

Co-Supervisor: Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bruno Niederbacher SJ

Clement Mayambala, M.phil.
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:clement.mayambala@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Epistemology, Ethics, Feminism and Critical Race Theories

Thesis: Humane Epistemology: An Inquiry Concerning Social-Epistemic Structured Ignorance

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katherine Dormandy

Co-Supervisor: Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bruno Niederbacher SJ

Karl Heinz Sager, Mag.
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:karl.sager@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science

Thesis: A Theory of Understanding Theories

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christoph Jäger

Georg Sauerwein, Msc., Dipl.-Theol.
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

Fellow of the Project ANALYTIC THEOLOGY: THE NATURE OF GOD

E-Mail:Georg.Sauerwein@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Science and Religion, Philosophy of Religion (esp. divine action, nature of God, God-world relation), Philosophy of Physics, Fundamental Theology, Social Ethics (climate change)

Thesis: Beauty as a Criterion of Theory Evaluation in Physics and its Implications for the Doctrine of God

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Roman Siebenrock

Jonathan Sieberg, Mag. theol., MA
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:Jonathan.Sieberg@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Anthropology

Thesis: Thomas Bradwardine

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christoph Jäger

Jonas Wittwer, MA
Universität Bern

E-Mail:jonas.wittwer@students.unibe.ch

Research area(s): Social Epistemology, Feminist Epistemology, Ethics of Belief and Philosophy of Science

Thesis: Novices: Which One Should You Trust? - A New Perspective on the Philosophy of Expertise

First supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. Claus Beisbart

Co-Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katherine Dormandy

Alumni

Vincent Attukaran Esthappan, Mag.
Department of Christian Philosophy, LFU

E-Mail:Vincent.Attukaran-Esthappan@student.uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Religion.

Thesis:Introspecting Human Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of William James’s Introspective Method in the Principles of Psychology.

First supervisor: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Quitterer

Fatima Cavis, Mag.^a PhD
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

MA Islamic Studies, Jewish-Christian Studies, Pedagogy (Frankfurt am Main)
PhD Islamic Religious Education (Innsbruck)

E-Mail:fatima.cavis@uibk.ac.at

Research area(s): Qurʾān Hermeneutics, Qurʾān Didactics, Philosophy of Religious Education on the Basis of Scripture, Interfaith Dialog (Scriptural Reasoning)

Thesis: Learning to Understand the Qurʾān. The Hermeneutical and Theological Foundations of a Subject- and Context-Oriented Qurʾān Didactics

First supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Zekirija Sejdini