Affiliated Fellow Prof. Dr. Sabine Döring

E-Mail: sabine.doering@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de

X: @sabinedoering

Research focus:
  • Theory of Ethics with a focus on the philosophy of emotions
  • Normative Ethics
  • Moral Psychology
  • Theory of Value
  • Theory of Rationality
  • Theory of Action
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • Philosophy and Literature

Sabine Döring is an honorary professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and serves as a senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the Center for Liberal Modernity. She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research.

From 2023 to 2024, she served as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). From 2008 to 2023, she held a W3 professorship in Practical Philosophy (Ethics) at the University of Tübingen and concurrently served as Principal Investigator and board member of the Cluster of Excellence “Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neurosciences.” She gained international research experience, among other things, as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne and in various positions in the United Kingdom, including at the University of Manchester, King’s College London, and the University of St Andrews. Previous positions also took her to the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Hamburg, and Göttingen, as well as to the University of California, Berkeley, for a research fellowship.

Sabine Döring received her Ph.D. in philosophy, linguistics, and literary studies from Georg-August University of Göttingen in 1997 and completed her habilitation at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2005. During her studies, she received funding from the German National Academic Foundation and was honored for outstanding academic achievement.Research Fellow der Royal Society of Edinburgh (European Research Award der Royal Society of Edinburgh und der Caledonian Research Foundation), Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Schottland.

Publications

Please find Prof. Döring’s list of publications linked here.

Qualifications

2005 Habilitation in Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen

1997 Dr. phil., Georg-August-University Göttingen (Philosophy; Linguistics; Literature)

Positions

since 2026 Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

since 2025 Senior Fellow, Zentrum Liberale Moderne

since 2025 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research

since 2023 Honorary professor, University of Tübingen

2023 – 2024 State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

2008 – 2023 Professor (W3) of Philosophy with a focus on Practical Philosophy (Ethics) at the University of Tübingen

2009 – 2019 Board Member and Principal Investigator of the Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) Cluster of Excellence

2013 Guest professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia

2011 – 2014 Head of the DFG-Project “Emotionen und Werte”, University of Tübingen

10/2006 – 03/2007 Interim Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg

09/2005 – 12/2007 Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester

10/2004 – 08/2005 Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

01/2004 – 09/2004 Assistant Professor (C 1) in Department 1, Philosophy, at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Research Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh (European Research Award Royal Society of Edinburgh and Caledonian Research Foundation), Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Schottland

03/1999 – 12/2001 Assistant Professor (C 1) in Department 1, Philosophy, at the University of Essen

1998 Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, Research Scholar

1997 Research Associate at SFB 529, “The Internationality of National Literatures,” at University of Göttingen

1994 – 1997 Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy at University of Göttingen