Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of Philosophy - Philosophy, Science and the Sciences

Faculty of the Research Training Group

Second Funding Period (April 2019 - September 2023)

-> see first funding period (October 2014 - March 2019) below

Primary Researchers

Prof. Dr. Markus Asper
Professor of Classics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Beere
Professor for Ancient Philosophy and History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk
Alexander von Humboldt-Professor of Classics and History of Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gerd Graßhoff
Professor of History of Ancient Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Lukas Mühlethaler
Junior Professor for Jewish Philosophy and Aesthetics (Research area: Arabic and Islamicate Studies), Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Karl-Georg Niebergall
Professor for Logic and Philosophy of Language, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Bernd Roling
Professor for Latin Philology, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Tobias Rosefeldt
Professor for Classical German Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Barbara Vetter
Professor for Theoretical Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. James Wilberding
Professor for Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Mercator Fellow

Prof. Dr. Dr. Stephen Menn
Professor of Philosophy, McGill University (Montreal, CA); Honorary Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Additional Faculty

First Funding Period (October 2014 - March 2019)

Primary Researchers

  • Markus Asper (Professor of Classics, Humboldt-Universität)
  • Jonathan Beere (RTG spokesperson, Professor for Ancient Philosophy and History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität)
  • Gerd Graßhoff (Professor of History of ancient Science, Humboldt-Universität)
  • Christoph Markschies (Professor of Ancient Christianity, Humboldt-Universität)
  • Stephen Menn (Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität; Professor of Philosophy, McGill University)
  • Lukas Mühlethaler (Junior Professor for Jewish Philosophy and Aesthetics, Freie Universität)
  • Jürgen Renn (Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
  • Bernd Roling (Professor for Latin Philology, Freie Universität)
  • Philip van der Eijk (Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science, Humboldt-Universität)
  • Barbara Vetter (Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin)

Additional Faculty

Associated Researchers

  • Peter Adamson (Professor for Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  • Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Studies; Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton)
  • Liba Taub (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)