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Dr. Lucian Ionel

Dr. Lucian Ionel

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Practical Philosophy
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
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04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

Lucian Ionel has been a research fellow at the University of Leipzig since 2023. Previously, he was a fellow at the "Human Abilities" Centre for Advanced Studies in Berlin (2021-2022), a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh as a DFG Research Fellow (2019-2021), and a member of the DFG Cluster of Excellence "BrainLinks-BrainTools" in Freiburg (2017-2018). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in cotutelle with the University of Strasbourg and his dissertation was published under the title "Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger" (De Gruyter, 2020). His research interests include philosophy of mind, practical philosophy, anthropology and ontology. Historically, he has focused on Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and Heidegger.

Professional career

  • since 04/2023
    Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy of Leipzig University
  • 04/2022 - 09/2022
    Lectureship at the University of Freiburg
  • 10/2021 - 03/2022
    DFG Research Fellow at the Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Free University of Berlin
  • 06/2019 - 09/2021
    DFG Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
  • 01/2019 - 05/2019
    Research Assistant at the Chair for Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology, University of Freiburg
  • 05/2017 - 12/2018
    Research Fellow in the DFG Excellence Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools. Research Group Norms & Nature, University of Freiburg

Education

  • 10/2013 - 11/2017
    PhD (summa cum laude) at the University of Freiburg Joint Doctoral Degree from the University of Strasbourg
  • 09/2015 - 03/2016
    Doctoral Research at the University of Strasbourg
  • 10/2010 - 09/2012
    Master of Arts in Philosophy (summa), University of Freiburg
  • 10/2008 - 09/2009
    Erasmus Grant, University of Freiburg
  • 10/2007 - 09/2010
    Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (summa), University of Iasi

My research addresses systematic questions in the philosophy of mind and practical philosophy, particularly within the Kantian, Hegelian, and neo-Aristotelian traditions. I am currently developing a project that explores the source of conceptual capacities, asking how these capacities can be autonomous while being conditioned by natural dispositions and historical practices. The project aims to articulate virtue as knowledge of human activity and to draw distinctions between concepts of capacities, such as disposition, practice, power (or authority), and faculty, clarifying how these concepts figure into our self-knowledge.

  • The Nature of Human Capacities
    Ionel, Lucian
    Duration: 06/2019 – 03/2022
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Praktische Philosophie
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  • Elizabeth Anscombe's action theory

    Seminar, Summer Semester 2023

  • Aesthetic power of judgement

    Seminar, Winter Semester 2023/24

  • Hegel's concept of Geist

    Seminar, Winter Semester 2023/24

  • Being and Time

    Seminar, SoSe 2024. Together with Joris Spigt

  • Weakness of will

    Seminar, Winter Semester 2024/25