Team

Hamid Taieb is the leader of the DFG Emmy-Noether research group “A Sensible World”. He received his PhD from the University of Lausanne and École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has held research or teaching positions at the Universities of Geneva, Hamburg, Lausanne, and Salzburg, and has made research stays at the École normale supérieure at Paris, HU Berlin, King’s College London, and the University of Gothenburg. He has written several works in the history of philosophy: first, on the Austro-German tradition, from the School of Brentano to early phenomenology; and second, on the Aristotelian tradition, especially medieval scholastic authors. From a systematic point of view, he specializes in the philosophy of mind and ontology, but has also explored issues in epistemology and philosophy of language. In addition, he is interested in philosophy of law (before devoting himself to philosophy, he studied law at the University of Geneva).

Lina de Boer studied philosophy and history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate student.  She did a Master’s degree at Freie Universität Berlin on philosophy of perception in general and the phenomenology of the lived body in particular, while working as a research assistant at the chair of social philosophy (held by Prof. Matthias Schloßberger) at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Her research is about the notion of spatiality and its relation to haptic sensory qualities in Husserl and early phenomenology.

Twan Stiekel has two Bachelor degrees in Literary Studies and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s in Philosophy from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During his Master’s, he spent one year at Sorbonne Université where he studied the work of Edmund Husserl. He wrote his Master’s thesis on Husserl and Wittgenstein with supervisors at both the Humboldt and the Sorbonne. His research typically combines analytic and continental philosophy and currently focuses on phenomenological approaches to metaphysics and the metametaphysics of early phenomenology.