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Michael Geronimo Festl

Michael Geronimo Festl

Michael Geronimo Festl

Prof. Dr.

Senior Lecturer

SHSS-HSG
Fachbereich Philosophie
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St. Gallen
Main Focuses

Theory of Justice, Political Philosophy, Pragmatist Epistemology, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, John Dewey

Fields of research

Theory of Justice, Pragmatism, Political Philosophy

Further fields of research

Epistemology, Philosophy of Technology

Professional Career

Since Spring 2014 Permanent Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Gall.

Since Fall 2014 Director of the Dewey-Center Switzerland at the University of St. Gall.

February to April 2018 Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and Philosophy of the LaTrobe University Melbourne, Australia.

From Fall 2013 to April 2015 President of the Swiss Philosophical Society.

PhD-Studies "Organization and Culture" Philosophy. Dissertation supervised by Dieter Thomä at the University of St. Gall, Second Supervisor: Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/New York). Graduated (summa cum laude) in September 2013.

PhD-Visiting Student at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago; invited by Robert Pippin 09/2012 till 08/2013 based on a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Fund.

Research Scholar in June und July 2012 at the International Centre for social and ethical questions at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Master-Studies "The Modern Age in Europe: History and Literature" at the University of Hagen (graduated February 2014). 

Master Studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (graduated August 2009).

Master of Arts in Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gall (graduated October 2010).

Bachelor of Honors in Business at the University of Applied Sciences Landshut (graduated August 2006).

Projects

Liberalism: Past, Present, and Future (since Fall 2018), plan: handbook with Metzler Verlag; English Book Publication.

Justice, Knowledge, and Literature. A Collection of Essays (since Fall 2014).

Habilitation project: Political Philosophy in the Weimar Republic (started in 2013, finalized with the book publication of "Scheitern an Kontingenz. Politisches Denken in der Weimarer Republik" [Dashing against Contingency. Political Thought in the Weimar Republic], Campus: Frankfurt/M. and New York, 2019).

Dissertation-Project: Justice as Historic Experimentalism. Theory of Justice after the Pragmatic Turn in Epistemology (finalized in 2013).

Affiliations

Member of the Swiss Philosophical Society.

Director of the Dewey-Center Switzerland at the University of St. Gall.

Vice-President Philosophical Society of Eastern Switzerland.

 
Awards

February to April 2018 Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and Philosophy of the LaTrobe University Melbourne, Australia.

Scholar of the Swiss National Science Fund in the academic year 2012/13

Additional Information

For my publications please see my profile on "Alexandria"

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