Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl is Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz. She is the head of the working unit Classical Phenomenology and co-speaker of the interdisciplinary core research area Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics. From 2008-2020 she acted as co-editor of Husserl Studies, together with Steven G. Crowell (Rice University). Since 2006 she has been a member of the Ethical Committee of the University Hospital Graz. Since March 2021 she has been acting as vice-dean (research agenda) of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Graz.
Her research work focuses on the contributions of a Husserlian phenomenology to recent debates in (meta)ethics, theory of action, theory of value, theory of emotions, philosophy of mind, and (social)epistemology. She published two monographs (Husserl. Zeitlichkeit und Intentionalität, Freiburg/München 2000; Mediane Phänomenologie: Subjektivität im Spannungsfeld von Naturalität und Kulturalität, Würzburg2003) and co-edited several volumes, for instance, with John J. Drummond, Emotional experiences: Ethical and social significance (London and New York, 2018), with Sebastian Luft and Niels Weidtmann, Phenomenology and Pragmatism (Hamburg 2019), and with Harald A. Wiltsche, Karl Jaspers’ ‚Allgemeine Psychopathologie’ zwischen Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Praxis (Würzburg 2008). Her numerous articles among others tackle with critique of psychologism and relativism, naturalizing subjectivity, first-person perspective, fact/value dichotomy, moral supervenience, autonomy, epistemic authority and manipulation, self-deception, and self-care. Recently, she has been working on a phenomenology of intentional feelings and emotions (e. g., shame, guilt, envy, hate, pride and arrogance, forgiveness, grief, gratitude), especially with a view to their ethical and axiological significance and the connection with a theory of self or person, respectively. Key to this conception is the problem of value realization. The connection between values and virtues also plays a crucial role.
Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl is Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz. She is the head of the working unit Classical Phenomenology and co-speaker of the interdisciplinary core research area Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics. From 2008-2020 she acted as co-editor of Husserl Studies, together with Steven G. Crowell (Rice University). Since 2006 she has been a member of the Ethical Committee of the University Hospital Graz. Since March 2021 she has been acting as vice-dean (research agenda) of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Graz.
Her research work focuses on the contributions of a Husserlian phenomenology to recent debates in (meta)ethics, theory of action, theory of value, theory of emotions, philosophy of mind, and (social)epistemology. She published two monographs (Husserl. Zeitlichkeit und Intentionalität, Freiburg/München 2000; Mediane Phänomenologie: Subjektivität im Spannungsfeld von Naturalität und Kulturalität, Würzburg2003) and co-edited several volumes, for instance, with John J. Drummond, Emotional experiences: Ethical and social significance (London and New York, 2018), with Sebastian Luft and Niels Weidtmann, Phenomenology and Pragmatism (Hamburg 2019), and with Harald A. Wiltsche, Karl Jaspers’ ‚Allgemeine Psychopathologie’ zwischen Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Praxis (Würzburg 2008). Her numerous articles among others tackle with critique of psychologism and relativism, naturalizing subjectivity, first-person perspective, fact/value dichotomy, moral supervenience, autonomy, epistemic authority and manipulation, self-deception, and self-care. Recently, she has been working on a phenomenology of intentional feelings and emotions (e. g., shame, guilt, envy, hate, pride and arrogance, forgiveness, grief, gratitude), especially with a view to their ethical and axiological significance and the connection with a theory of self or person, respectively. Key to this conception is the problem of value realization. The connection between values and virtues also plays a crucial role.
Habilitation, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
PhD Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria