Philipp Berghofer

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Affiliation: Department for Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz,

Heinrichstraße 26
8010 Graz, Austria

Email: philipp.berghofer(at)uni-graz.at

AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Physics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science

AOC: Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

Since January 2026: Senior Postdoc researcher at the University of Graz. Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Project: “The Phenomenological Turn: From Epistemology to Quantum Mechanics”. PI: Philipp Berghofer
October 2023 – December 2025: Post-Doc researcher at the University of Graz. Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Project: “The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories” PI: Philipp Berghofer
October 2019 – September 2023: Post-Doc researcher at the University of Graz. Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Project: “Intentionality and Symbolic Construction: The Phenomenological Background of Hermann Weyl’s Philosophy of Physics.” PI: Harald Wiltsche
October 2018 – September 2019: Pre-Doc researcher at the University of Graz, Department of Philosophy (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
January 2016 – September 2018: Pre-Doc researcher at the University of Graz, Department of Philosophy (external funding: Austrian Academy of Sciences)

June 2019: PhD in Philosophy (with distinction)
Thesis: “On the Relevance of a Phenomenological Epistemology: Husserlian Approaches to Experiential Justification”
Advisor: Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl
March 2013: Master in Philosophy (with distinction)
Thesis: “Über den Versuch, Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Das cartesische Ideal und seine Wiederaufnahme durch Edmund Husserl im 20. Jahrhundert”
Advisor: Udo Thiel
January 2012: Bachelor in Physics
Thesis: “Ausgewählte zweidimensionale Ising-Modelle gelöst mithilfe von Grassmann-Variablen”
Advisor: Christof Gattringer
December 2010: Bachelor in Philosophy
Thesis: “Der Cartesische Zirkel”
Advisor: Harald Berger

June 2025: FWF ASTRA Award
January – April 2023: Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh (Spring Term 2023).
2021: Roland Atefie Award (for an outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of philosophy, theology, or indology awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
January 2016 – December 2018: DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
May – August 2017: Scholarship for a guest stay at the University of Cologne granted by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (3 months)
April 2017: Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching: Teaching stint at the University of Belgrade (5 days)
March 2017: Visiting Fellowship at the Spacetime after Quantum Gravity research group at the University of Geneva
August 2016: Full Scholarship European Forum Alpbach
April – September 2013: Erasmus scholarship at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Principal investigator of the five-year research project “The Phenomenological Turn: From Epistemology to Quantum Mechanics,” (awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), funding: € 1.000.000,00, started in January 2026).
Principal investigator of the four-year research project “The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories” (awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), funding: € 543.490,50, started in June 2023).
Principal investigator of the one-year research project “Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenology: Specifying the Philosophical Foundations of QBism” (awarded by the Styrian Research Council, funding: € 97.287,00, October 2022 – November 2023).

Since May 2026 Member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Since 2024 Member of the Philosophy of Physics Society
Since 2023 co-founder and co-organizer of the ongoing event series Gauge-Invariant Approaches to Physics
Since January 2021 Book Review Editor of Husserl Studies
Since 2021 co-founder and co-organizer of the ongoing event series Phenomenology Forum Graz
Since November 2020 President of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology
2016 – November 2020 Vice-General Secretary of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology
Since 2017 Member of the steering committee of Evidence and Imagination – Special Editions: International and Interdisciplinary event series for PhD students based at the University of Graz