Short Bio
Nora Hangel (Leibniz Center for Science and Society, LCSS) serves as a substitute/visiting professor (2026-27) for Prof. Dr. Dunja Šešelja, Instiute for Philosophy II “Social Epistemology and Reasoning in Science” at Ruhr University Bochum. She is the principal investigator of the DFG project: “The role of scientific judgment in generating knowledge: A qualitative study about interpersonal, collective and collaborative belief and judgment formation in scientific practice” (DFG, 2022-2025) at the Leibniz Research Centre for Science and Society (LCSS) at Leibniz University Hannover. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Immanuel Kant and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2025). Her articles have appeared in, a.o.: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and EJPS. Her ORCID number is: 0000-0001-6809-4603
Recent Activities with our Group
Teaching
Winter Term 2026/27
- Epistemic Injustice (Thursday)
- Scientific Uncertainty - Challenges from Practice (Thursday)
- Verantwortung in der Forschung - Responsibility in Research (Friday)
- Science in a Political World (Block-Seminar)
- Feminist Philosophy of Science (Block-Seminar)
Summer Term 2026
- The social in social epistemology (Wednesday)
- Philosophy after the practice turn (Thursday)
- Philosophy in the Field, Qualitative Methods in Philosophy of Science in Practice (Thursday)
- Decision-Making in Science and Society (Friday)