- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- J5-39
- bauer@esphil.eur.nl
Profile
Katharina Bauer is assistant professor of practical philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy.
She obtained a doctorate in philosophy (summa cum laude) for a dissertation about the phenomenon of the gift: Einander zu erkennen geben (Karl Alber Verlag 2012). In 2016 she has completed her habilitation thesis about theories of practical necessity at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum as a research scholar of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”. As Visiting Researcher at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M., she has investigated the topic of self-optimization from a Kantian perspective (Feodor-Lynen Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation).
Her areas of specilization are moral philosophy, self-optimization and enhancement, theories of practical necessity, theories of personal identity and character, theories of the gift and contemporary French philosophy.
Areas of PhD Supervision:
- Moral Philosophy
- Theories of personal practical identity
- Ethics of human enhancement
- French phenomenology
- Philosophy and literature
- Katharina Bauer & Maren Wehrle (2021) - Brief aus den Niederlanden - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie, 69 (3), 452-464 - doi: 10.1515/dzph-2021-0038 - [link]
- Katharina Bauer (2020) - Will the Corona Crisis Make Us Better? Activating (Fragile) Hope for Justice - Law, Culture and the Humanities, 1-17
- Katharina Bauer (2020) - Interexplikationen – Entfaltungen einer Phänomenologie der interdonation. - [link]
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Keeping it real. Is it possible to be truly authentic? - RSA Journal, 3 - [link]
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Selbst-Authentifizierung. Ein verantwortliches Selbstverhaeltnis - [link]
- Katharina Bauer (2018) - Cognitive Self-Enhancement as a Duty to Oneself: A Kantian Perspective - Southern Journal of Philosophy, 56 (1), 36-58 - doi: 10.1111/sjp.12267 - [link]
- Katharina Bauer (2018) - Über die Brückenfunktion der Kunst bei Ernst Cassirer
- Katharina Bauer (2018) - „Wer sich aber zum Wurm macht …“ – Würde als Selbstverpflichtung - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie, 66, 607-625 - doi: 10.1515/dzph-2018-0043 - [link]
- Katharina Bauer, S Varga & C Mieth (2017) - Dimensions of Practical Necessity. An Introduction
- Katharina Bauer, S Varga & C Mieth (2017) - Dimensions of Practical Necessity. "Here I stand. I can do no other"
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Human dignity in bioethical debates. In defence of a contentious concept
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Do not make yourself worm. A duty to oneself to respect one's own dignity
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Self-authentication. An elaborated ideal of authenticity
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - The gift, situatedness, and freedom
- Katharina Bauer (2019) - Make yourself better! Education and enhancement
- Katharina Bauer (2018) - Personal Necessities in Human-Machine-Interaction
- Katharina Bauer (2018) - Meaning what we say? - A comment on Sabina Lovibond's feminist ethics
- Katharina Bauer (2017) - “Wer sich aber zum Wurm macht… – Über das Phänomen der Selbstentwürdigung”
- Katharina Bauer (2016) - Imperatives of Self-Optimization
- Katharina Bauer (2015) - Personal Authenticity – Challenge for or Condition of Responsibility?
PhD Seminar
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FW-MA0050
Transhumanism
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FW-MA0012
Bachelor Thesis Philosophy
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Course Code
- FW-DD3196
Essential Contemporary Challenges
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Bachelor 1, Bachelor 1, Bachelor 3
- Course Code
- FW-WB3925
MA Central
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FW-MA000
Academic Skills 1
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FW-MA0001
