Genia Schönbaumsfeld holds a personal chair in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her areas of research specialism include Wittgenstein, Epistemology, Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Religion. She has published widely in all of them.
Before coming to Southampton, Genia studied Philosophy at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Vienna. She was a Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and from 2003-06 held a prestigious ‘Hertha Firnberg’ research fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund.
In March 2023, Genia was awarded a high…
Genia Schönbaumsfeld holds a personal chair in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her areas of research specialism include Wittgenstein, Epistemology, Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Religion. She has published widely in all of them.
Before coming to Southampton, Genia studied Philosophy at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Vienna. She was a Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and from 2003-06 held a prestigious ‘Hertha Firnberg’ research fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund.
In March 2023, Genia was awarded a high-profile 2.5m ERC Advanced Grant for her 5-year project entitled ‘The Ethics of Doubt – Kierkegaard, Scepticism and Conspiracy Theory’. She is now leading a team that includes three post-docs and two PhD students. For more information about the project, see the project website www.ethicsofdoubt.org or follow us on X: @Ethics _ of _ Doubt.
Genia is the author of A Confusion of the Spheres – Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2007), The Illusion of Doubt (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Wittgenstein on Religious Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
She is Associate Editor of the journal Philosophical Investigations, Advisory Board member of The Nordic Wittgenstein Review and Editorial Board Member of Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein. In 2020 she was elected to Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
For more information about Genia, including full list of publications, please see her staff page https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5wy8sl/professor-genia-schonbaumsfeld and her personal website: https://geniaschonbaumsfeld.academia.edu/.
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