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