Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft

Theoretical Philosophy

E-Mail:

lufts@mail.uni-paderborn.de

Phone:

+49 5251 60-2411

ORCID:

0009-0004-0507-492X

Office Address:

Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn

Room:

N2.110

Office hours:

During the Summer Term 2024: Wednesdays 12-2 pm and by appointment (via email).

About Sebastian Luft

Professor for Theoretical Philosophy since Oct. 1, 2023.

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Academic Career

Since 01.01.2002: CV Sebastian Luft

Since 2023 Professor für Theoretical Philosophy, Paderborn University

2004-2023 Professor for Philosophy, Marquette University (2004-2007 assistant professor, 2007-2015 associate professor, 2015 professor)

2002-2004 Visiting Professor (& Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow), Emory University

1998-2002 Research & Editorial, Husserl-Archiv, KULeuven (Belgium)

Guest professor at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria); Universidad de Puerto Rico en San Juan (Río Piedras), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universität Paderborn (DAAD-Gastprofessor).

Studied Philosophy, German Studies and Classics at Universities of Freiburg i.Br., Heidelberg, Wuppertal, SUNY Stony Brook.

Habilitation 2013 in Würzburg

Dissertation 1998 in Wuppertal (summa cum laude)

Magister Artium 1994 in Heidelberg

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. (Wilfrid Sellars)

Research

Research Interests

Theoretical Philosophy (transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of culture, pragmatism).

European and American philosophie of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries (special authors: Kant, Hegel, Neo-Kantians, Husserl, Walther, Cassirer, James, Rorty, McDowell, Brandom).

Teaching philosophy in higher ed.

Publications

Selected Publications

Wilhelm Windelband. Präludien

S. Luft, J. Bohr, eds., Wilhelm Windelband. Präludien, Felix Meiner Verlag, 2021.

Philosophie Lehren

S. Luft, Philosophie Lehren, Meiner, Hamburg, 2019.

Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology

S. Luft, R. Hagengruber, eds., Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018.

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Teaching

Teaching Areas

Theoretical Philosophy, historically oriented (Ancient, Early Modern, Modern).

Current Courses