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Curriculum Vitae 1 

JOHANNA SEIBT 

March 2012 

1 

Vita Seibt 

Citizenship German 

Marital status Married, one daughter. 

Address Institute for Society and Culture, Aarhus University, Nobelparken, 

Building 1465, Jens Chr. Skousvej 5, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark 

Home address Skoleparken 129, 8330 Beder, Denmark. Tel. +45 86 93 8556 

e-mail filseibt@hum.au.dk 

Danish CPR: 2411592602 

Areas of Research Specialization 

Systematic: analytical ontology and metaphysics (in particular: 

process ontology), meta-philosophy, philosophical logic 

(mereology), philosophy of technology, identity theories and 

interdisciplinary conflict research, philosophy of social 

robotics 

Historical: Historical ex- and transpositions of substance 

metaphysics (focus: Leibniz), historical programs of 

metaphilosophical revision (Hegel, Carnap, Heidegger), 

contemporary American metaphysics (focus: W. Sellars, 

Whitehead, Goodman, Quine, Rescher) 

General presentation of research profile in non-technical terms* 

JS is internationally known for her work in analytical ontology, an area in contemporary 

philosophy that is technically demanding. While much current work in analytical 

ontology is narrowly focused on the discussion of single aspects of extant ontological 

theories, JS has pursued a larger, integrated project. Over the course of two decades she 

has systematically worked out the foundations of a new process ontology which has 

been regarded as “far and away the most significant contribution to process-ontological 

thought and theorizing since the publication of Whitehead’s ground-breaking Process 

and Reality seventy-five years ago” (Jay Rosenberg, in his official evaluation of JS’s 

Habilitationsschrift). She has shown that the current ontological discussion is largely 

1 Annotated for the specific purpose of this application. Sections with ‘*’ are added to 

increase transparency relative to the evaluation criteria of European grant proposals.

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driven by basic assumptions about the structure of reality that stem from the historical 

tradition in metaphysics. These presuppositions (the “myth of substance”)—which 

center on the claim that the world consists of static and discrete objects standing in 

relations—generate unnecessary theoretical difficulties, especially for an ontological 

interpretation of the structure of reality that wishes to stay in contact with the 

development in the natural sciences. However, as JS has shown (in selected studies), 

once these presuppositions are abandoned it is possible to draft an ontology that can be 

used for the interpretation of basic concepts of current science. In addition, as she has 

argued more recently, the new process-based ontology she proposes (General Process 

Theory) is of particular interest to information technology since this ontology does not 

incorporate the cognitive dispositions of speakers of a certain language group (Indo- 

European languages). A side-line in JS’s research on the development and application 

of General Process Theory concerns the role of substance-metaphysical presuppositions in 

practical regards, e.g, in the theoretical construct of a person’s or group’s (ethnic, 

religious etc.) ‘identity’ and the dynamics of ‘identity-driven’ conflicts. 

JS is also known for her interpretations of the naturalist philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, a 

20 th century American philosopher. At the age of 28 JS wrote a monograph offering the 

first systematic interpretation of Sellars in English. Later she wrote the first and so far 

only systematic interpretation of Sellars in German. Sellars’ philosophy is the only 

consistent and comprehensive system of a naturalist philosophy hitherto developed. 

Education 

2005 Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.) at the University of Konstanz. 

2004 Full-Professor-Qualification (“Professorkvalifikation” 1 ) in 

connection with application for a “Professorship in the 

Humanities”, sponsored by the Statens Humanistiske 

Forskningsråd, Denmark 

2002 Full-Professor-Qualification (“Professorkvalifikation”), in 

connection with application for a Chair at Odense, Denmark. 

1990 Ph. D. in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: 

Towards Process Ontology. A Critical Study in Substance-Ontological 

Premises. Dissertation committee: Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher 

(first readers), Nuel Belnap (second reader), Joseph Camp, Richard 

Gale, Mary-Louise Gill. The degree was awarded in July 1990. 

1 The “Professorkvalifikation” is a Danish predicate of academic distinction. It is awarded in connection with an 

application for a Danish position as professor, based on the assessment by an international evaluation committee, and 

indicates that the candidate has the qualifications for a ‘professorat’ (full professorship with endowment) in Denmark.

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1986-90 Ph. D. Study in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. 

1984-86 Ph. D. Study in Philosophy at the LMU München. 

1984 M. A. (LMU München), in Philosophy, Logic, Theoretical 

Linguistics. Thesis: Wilfrid Sellars' naturalistisch-nominalistische 

Theorie derEigen-schaften. Grade: summa cum laude. 

1982-86 Study of Computer Science at the Technische Universität München 

and the Fernuniversität Hagen. 

1981-82 B.A. at the Hochschule für Philosophie, S.J. München. 

1981 Graecum (LMU München). 

1979-81 B.A. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, in 

Philosophy, Logic, and Theoretical Linguistics. 

Positions Held 

2008-current Associate professor at the University of Aarhus, Philosophy 

Department, permanent position 1 

2007-2008 Associate professor at the University of Aarhus, Philosophy 

Department 

2002-2004 Post-doc Research Fellow of the Danish Research Council in the 

Humanities 

2001-2006 Short-time employment as Associate Prof. (replacement positions) 

or Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Aarhus, Philosophy 

Department 

1990-2000 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of 

Philosophy 2 

1989-90 Teaching Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of 

Pittsburgh 

1988-89 Research Assistant at the Center for Parallel, Distributed, and 

Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh, Department of 

Computer Science. 

1986-87 Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy 

Department 

1984-86 Teaching Assistant, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, 

Institut für Philosophie 

1 Directly recruited as a researcher with special qualifications (‘kaldelse’) ; this includes not a national but also an 

international evaluation of the candidate. 

2 Frequent leaves of absence effect a delay in the tenure decision; due to two research leaves at the University of 

Konstanz and one sick leave my tenure decision was delayed to the year 2002. I moved to Denmark in 1999 for personal 

reasons and quit my position in 2000.

Job Offers Declined 

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1. University of Washington (1990), tenure track position. 

2. University of Georgia (1990), tenure track position. 

3. University of Washington (1991), tenure track position. 

4. University of Oslo (2002), tenured position as associate professor. 

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships 

2011-2012 Seed money grant for the project Making Space: the Ontology of Social 

Interaction, jointly with colleagues from the University of Southern 

Denmark and the University of Hamburg 

2009-2010 Project grant by the Global Dialogue Project Group (Poul Due Jensens 

Foundation, City of Aarhus, Aarhus University), ca. 2 million DKK 

2006-2008 Research and conference grant by the Research Focus Area 

Knowledge Society, University of Aarhus (0, 3 million DKK) 

2005-2008 Research grant for Process, Person, and Society, the Danish division 

of the European research network, SophiaEurope, sponsored by the 

Metanexus Institute, USA. (ca. 0, 2 million DKK) 

2002-2004 Post-Doc research grant of the Danish Research Council for the 

Humanities (ca. 1 million DKK) 

2003 Joint grant of the DAAD and CIRIUS within the Danish-German 

Academic Exchange Program, for a lecture course at the University 

of Greifswald, Germany. 

2002 Conference grant of the Danish Research Council for the Humanities 

2001 Conference grant of the University of Aarhus 

1998 Teaching Award of the Hewlett Foundation. Project: Group Instruction 

in Large Lecture Classes (Introduction to Philosophy) 

1992-97 Habilitation Fellowship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 

(Part Time, 36 months, ca. 1,8 million DKK) 

1987-88 Alan-Ross-Anderson Fellowship in Logic, University of Pittsburgh. 

1986 Fulbright International Travel Grant. 

1981-84 Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (for 

exceptionally gifted students). 

1979-84 Fellowship by the Bavarian Government for Highly Gifted Students 

(“Bayerische Hochbegabtenförderung”). 

Leaves * 

Sick leave: From December 1996 to August 1997 (9 months): sick leave due to 

serious complications (hospital infection) after spine surgery

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Maternity: From November 1997 to May 1999 (19 months) on 50% maternity 

leave; on 100% maternity leave from May 1999 to December 1999 (7 

months). 

Administration 

2012 Member of the Study Board (Undervisning Udvalg) of the Section 

for Philosophy and the History of Ideas, Institute for Society and 

Culture, Aarhus University 

2008-2012 Member of the Ph.D. Selection Committee at the Faculty of 

Humanities (departmental level) of Aarhus University. 

2008 Member of the “University Committee for Internationalization” at 

Aarhus University 

2006-2008 Placement consultant for the Danish Research School in Philosophy, the 

History of Ideas, and Philosophy and History of Sciences 

2004 Design and preparation of implementation of a transnational MA- 

Program in philosophy (“Denmark’s International MA-Program in 

Philosophy”) with administrative base at the philosophy 

department at Aarhus University. 

1992 Organization and Implementation of a faculty and student 

exchange program between the philosophy departments of the 

University of Texas and the Universität Konstanz. 

1992 Member of the Departmental Curricular Committee at the 

University of Texas at Austin. 

1992-98 Study Abroad Officer at UT Austin 

1991-98 Placement Officer (assists and supervizes the applications of Ph. D. 

students) at UT Austin. 

Services on National and International Evaluation Committees 

2011 Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant 

proposal in ontology-based geoinformatics) 

2010 Member of the Evaluation Committee for an Associate 

Professorship in Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Normativity 

Theory, at the philosophy department at Aarhus University. 

2009 Member of the Evaluation Committee for a Full Professorship in 

Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at Roskilde University 

2006 Reviewer for the Austrian Academy of Science (grant proposal). 

2005 Member of the Evaluation Committee for an Assistant 

Professorship in Philosophy of Science at Roskilde University.

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2004 Member of the Evaluation Committee for a Professorship in 

Philosophy of Technology, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm 

2004 International evaluator (full responsibility) for a “faculty research 

position in theoretical philosophy” at Lund University, Sweden. 

Conference and Workshop Oganization 

2009 Responsibility—Climate Change as Challenge for Intercultural Inquiry on 

Values. An International Interdisciplinary Research Conference, 

Aarhus, Nov. 3.-6. www.globaldialogueconference.org. The 

conference had 60 speakers and 140 participants from 15 countries. 1 

2008 Understanding Conflicts—Cross-Cultural Perspectives. An 

International Interdisciplinary Research Conference. Aarhus 

University, August 19-22. The conference featured 116 speakers 

and had 450 participants from 42 countries. 2 

2007 Conflict, Communication, and Emotion. Fourth International PPS 

Workshop. May 23-24, Aarhus University. 

2007 Conflicts and Identity. Third International PPS Workshop. Nov. 23- 

24. Aarhus University. 

2006 Conflicts: Theories and Aspects of Human Discord. Second 

International PPS Workshop, May 17-18, Aarhus University 

2005 Process, Person, and Society: Inaugural Workshop of PPS 

2004 Process Metaphysics I and II, Sections at the Yearly Meeting of the 

Danish Philosophical Society, Aarhus, Feb. 2004 

2002 Processes-- Analysis and Application of Dynamic Categories. An 

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Process-based Explanations. 

Sandbjerg Gods, Sønderborg, Denmark, June 5-8. 

1999 The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Interactions and Trajectories. The 

University of Texas at Austin, April 16 and 17. 

1992 The UT Ontology Workshop. The University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 

8-10. 

1991 Coordination of the UT Philosophy Colloquy Series (a weekly 

international colloqui). 

1 Co‐organized with Jesper Garsdal and with administrative support of the Faculty of the Humanities, Aarhus 

University. 

2 This conference was the second largest event organized so far at the Humanities at Aarhus University, and it 

is still the event with largest international scope. Supported by her colleague Jesper Garsdal JS organized this 

event ‘single‐handedly’, i.e., without support from any administrative unit of Aarhus University.

Research Organisation 

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2009-2010 Main academic coordinator of the Global Dialogue Prize, one of the 

world’s most significant research awards in the intercultural value 

studies. JS was with Jesper Garsdal the initiator of this research 

prize and realized the complete academic organization of the prize 

and its inaugural bestowal in January 2010. For details see 

www.globaldialogueprize.org. 

20008-2011 Main coordinator (academically and administratively) of the 

Research Unit ICON: Interculturality, Conflict and Value Studies. 

(icon.au.dk) 

Short description: ICON was an interdisciplinary research unit 

housed at the department for philosophy and the history of ideas at 

Aarhus University. The task of ICON was to generate and 

coordinate research and scholarly inquiry on values from a crosscultural 

and intercultural point of view. ICON was a collaborative 

association of 12 researchers from philosophy, the history of ideas, 

journalism studies, and political science, who focused on the 

content of fundamental cultural values and on general issues such 

as the ontology of values, the role of values in decision making, and 

the grounding of values (e.g., in religious beliefs and experiences). 

The aim of ICON was to develop and promote intercultural value 

theory as (1) a theoretical contribution to world philosophy and the 

history of ideas and (2) a practical tool for the constructive 

transformation of culture-based conflicts at the level of public 

discourse, in education, international organizations and 

corporations, and in social praxis. ICON was the successor of PPS 

(see below) and was to serve as the institutional frame for the socalled 

Global Dialogue Conference Series (2009-2017, biannually) and 

the Global Dialogue Prize (2009-2017, biannually). In the course of a 

complete reorganization process at Aarhus University ICON was 

discontinued in mid 2011. 

2005-2008 Main coordinator (academically and administratively) of Process, 

Person, and Society, the Danish Division of the European Discussion 

and Research Network SophiaEuropa., supported by the Metanexus 

Foundation. http://icon.au.dk/past/frompps/descrpps/. 

The research and discussion group "Process, Person, and Society: 

from Conflict to Interagency ran from October 2005 to October

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2008. "Process, Person, and Society" (PPS) was a local division of 

the SophiaEurope Program, an international, cross-disciplinary 

discussion and research forum involving 80 researchers in the 

humanities, theology, and the sciences from 9 European countries. 

The research agenda of PPS was to explore the value of processoriented 

descriptions of agentive domains for a general 

classification of constructive and antagonistic interactions, in order 

to enhance our understanding of community, personhood and 

ethical judgment. PPS held four workshops and concluded with the 

large international conference Understanding Conflicts (see above). 

International Research Grant Applications 

2009 Preparation (main coordinator) of an EU HERA grant application, 

“From Tolerance to Interculturality: Strategies and Conditions for 

Active Peace Building Across Cultural Diversity.” 

2008 Preparation (main coordinator) of an EU FP7 grant application 

“Process-Based Strategies for Conflict Intervention and Peace 

Research (PROSPER)”. Received 10 out of 15 points. 

2007 ESF Conference Grant, with J. Rijkhoff (linguistics) and H. 

Andersen (history of science), on “Categorization, Communication 

and Innovation: A Cross-disciplinary Approach”. Received full 

marks by 2 of 3 reviewers. 

2006 Preparation (with Hanne Andersen and Helge Kragh, History of 

Science Department, AU) of a grant application to the 

Grundforskningsfond, Denmark, for a Center for Cognitive Change in 

Science, to be submitted 

2005 Preparation (as one of 15 group-co-ordinators) of an application for 

a research society under the auspices of the so-called 

‘SophiaEurope’ program of the Metanexus Institute, involving over 

90 researchers at 15 unversities in 7 European countries. 

Application successful. 

2004/5 Preparation (main coordinator) of RTN-application (4 years, 1.5 

Mill. Euro) to the European Science Foundation, for a 

multidisciplinary project (Ontology and Conceptual Systems)

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connecting current research in formal ontology, linguistics, 

cognitive science, computer science, involving about 50 researchers 

from 6 countries. 

2004 Preparation (as one of 9 work package co-ordinators) of a STREPapplication 

(3 years, 2.8 Mill. Euro) to the European Science 

Foundation for a multidisciplinary project (Responsibility and 

Anticipation) connecting current research in ontology, ethics 

(business ethics, medical ethics), computer science, and 

mathematics, involving 70 researchers from 9 countries. 

Editorial Services 

(1) Member of Editorial Board of international peer-reviewed journals: 

Since 2010 Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Ontology—An 

Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual 

Modeling 

Since 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of Axiomathes—An International 

Journal for Formal Ontology and Cognitive Science 

Since 1998 Member of the Editorial Board of Metaphysica. 

1990-94 Member of the Editorial Board of the History of Philosophy Quarterly. 

(2) Periodic reviewer for Erkenntnis, Dialectica, SATS-The Nordic Journal of 

Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 

Philosophy of Science. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ratio, Theoria (32 

reviews) 

(3) Co-editor of book series: 

Since 2002 Co-editor for the book series Process Thought (ONTOS Verlag, 

Frankfurt) together with N. Rescher and M. Weber. Titles edited: 1 

2009: M. Dibben, R. Newton (eds.), Applied Process Thought II 

2008: S. Franzese, The Ethics of Energy—William James’ Moral 

Philosophy in Focus 

1 Titles in the series Process Thought require extensive editorial work because of the variety of methodological standards 

in the process‐philosophical tradition.

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2008: G. Smith, I. Carlsson (eds.), Process and Personality 

2008: M. Dibben, T. Kelly (eds.), Applied Process Thought I 

2008: M. Pachalska, M. Weber (eds.), Neuropsychology and 

Philosophy of Mind in Process 

2007: S. Franzese, F. Kraemer (eds.), Fringes of Religious 

Experience—Cross-perspectives on William James’ ‘The Varieties of 

Religious Experience’ 

2007: M. Weber, P. Basile (eds) Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality 

2007: P. Basile, L. McHenry (eds.), Consciousness, Reality, and 

Value—Essays in Honor of T.L.S. Sprigge 

2007: S. Graupe, The Basho of Economics—An Intercultural Analysis 

of the Process of Economics 

2006: M. Weber, Whitehead’s Pancreativism 

2006: N. Rescher, Process Philosophical Deliberations 

2006:E.Khamara, Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton 

Controversy 

2005: G. Herstein, Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of 

Cosmology 

2005: W. Xie, Z. Wang, G. Derfer, Whitehead and China—Relevance 

and Relationships 

2005: J. Brown, Process and the Authentic Life 

2005: S. Graupe, Der Ort ökonomischen Denkens—Die Methodologie 

der Wirtschaftswissenschaftern im Licht japanischer Philosophie 

2004: M. Weber (ed.), After Whitehead- Rescher on Process 

Metaphysics 

Since 2001 Co-editor for the book series Metaphysical Research (ONTOS 

Verlag, Frankfurt), together with M. Reicher, B. Smith, D. v. 

Wachter. 

Of the 12 titles edited in this series so far, JS was particularly 

involved in: 

Klaus Petrus: On Human Persons 

André Zdunek: Ontologie, Wahrheit Kausalität 

Gerhard Schönrich: Institutionen und Ihre Ontologie 

Richard Swinburne. Gibt es einen Gott? 

Michael Esfeld: John Heil 

Bruno Niederbacher: Die menschliche Seele 

Jens Harbecke: Mental Causation 

Katrine Munn, Barry Smith: Applied Ontology 

Vera Hoffmann-Kols: The Metaphysics of Extrinsic Properties

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2012 Program Committee Member at the FOIS (Formal Ontology in 

Information Science) conference, the annual conference of the 

International Association for Applied Ontology 

2010 Program Committee Member at the FOIS (Formal Ontology in 

Information Science) conference, the annual conference of the 

International Association for Applied Ontology 

MA Thesis Supervision 

Thesis Supervision 

1. Brian Brian Merrill: Melissus. A Critical Commentary (1996-1998), UT Austin 

2. Martin Mose Bentzen: Deontic Logic and the Logic of Imperatives (2003-2004), 

AU 

3. Jan Alexis Nielsen, Sellars’ Theory of Sense Impressions (2006), AU 

4. Michael Kirchhoff, Anti-representationalism (2008), AU 

5. Stefan Gårsmand Jacobsen, China as Model for Europe, (2009), AU 

6. Sussi Steenberg Kristense, Identity and Social Integration (2009) AU 

7. Camilla Søndergård Pedersen, Personlig identitet (2009), AU 

8. Stefan Kristoffer Larsen: Free Will and the Brain (2009-2010), AU 

9. Ulrik Lehrskov: Toward a unified situation of knowledge--A theory of model-based 

reasoning (2010), AU 

10. Sara Kier Präem, Fatalism—Timely Considerations (2010), AU 

11. Lee Nelson, New Naturalism: On the Inclusion of Description and Scientific 

Literature and Their Effects on Mathematical Platonism (2011), AU 

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision and Readership 

(a) Second reader or member of Ph.D. committee (UT Austin) 1 : 

1. Sylvia Berryman: Rethinking Aristotelian Teleology: the Natural Philosophy of 

Strato of Lampsacus. (1993-1996) 

1 In US academia a Ph.D. committee consists of 4‐5 faculty members, including supervisor and second reader. All 

members of the committee are continuously involved in the production of the thesis; it is expected that all members 

comment on each chapter during various stages of the writing process, but at least on the penultimate draft before 

submission. Committee members are to meet with the student to discuss each chapter.

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2. David Newman: Chaos and Consciousness (1994-1996) 

3. David Hildebrand: Dewey and the Neo-Pragmatists (1994-1997) 

4. William Myers: The State of Dewey's Metaphysics (1995-1997) 

5. Kozi Asano: Plato's Theory of Mathematical Objects (1995-1997) 

6. Cooper Henson: Persistence and Agency (1995-1998) 

7. Eric Loomis: Wittgenstein on Rule-Following (1996-1998) 

8. Phil Hopkins: Logos and Balance. Studies in Presocratic Epistemoloy (1996-1999) 

9. Maureen Donelly: A Formal Theory of Common Sense Space (1996-1999) 

10. Tracy Lupher: Philosophical Implications of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory 

(1997-1999) 

11. Amy McLaughlin: Incommensurability and Truth (1999) 

(b) Supervisor 

1. Baris Parkan: The Ontology of Work (1998-2003), UT Austin. 

2. Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobson: “A model for all states" – China in Debates on 

Poverty, Meritocracy, Absolutism and Political Economy in Early Modern Europe 

(2008-2011), AU 

3. Marco Nørskov: Prolegomena to Social Robotics—Philosophical Inquiries into 

Perspectives on Human-Robot Interaction (2008-2011), AU 

4. Katrine Krause-Jensen: The sense of justice (start: 2009- delayed submission 

deadline due to maternity leave). 

(c) International Examiner at Ph.D. Defenses 1 

1. Anna-Sophia Maurin: If Tropes (Lund University, Sweden, 2002). 

2. Tobias Wahlberg, Perdurantism and the B-Theory of Time (Lund University, 

Sweden, 2009) 

1 In Scandinavia the examination of the Ph.D. thesis is not performed by the members of the Ph.D. committee (normally 

student work primarily with their supervisors, and other members are only consulted in special circumstances).

List of Publications 

Books and editions, published, forthcoming, submitted, and in progress: 

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1. 1990a Properties as Processes. A Synoptic Study in Wilfrid Sellars' Nominalism, 

(Reseda: Ridgeview Pub. Co.). Preface by Wilfrid Sellars. 1 

2. 1990b Towards Process Ontology: A Critical Study of Substance-Ontological Premises. 

(Ph. D. Dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh, Michigan: UMI Publications). 

3. 2000 (ed.) Wilfrid Sellars’ nominalistischer Naturalismus, Six essays with introduction, 

in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 48 (4), 595-682. 

4. 2003 (ed.) Process Theories—Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories, 

Dordrecht: Kluwer. 

5. 2004a (ed.) Processes: Analysis and Applications, Special issue of Axiomathes, 14. 

6. 2004b General Processes—A Study in Ontological Category Construction, 

Habilitationsschrift at the University of Konstanz. 2 

7. 2007 Wilfrid Sellars, Mentis-Verlag. 

8. 2010. Theory and Applications of Ontology: Vol. 1: Philosophical Perspectives; Vol 2: 

Computer Applications, Co-edited with R. Poli, A. Kameas, and M. Healey, Springer. 

9. 2011 Group Identity and Conflict. Special issue of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 28. 

10. 2012 Handbook of Mereology, H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt, G. Imaguire (eds.), Philosophia 

Verlag München, forthcoming. 

11. 2012. Climate Change—New Aspects of Responsibility, Ontos Verlag; forthcoming. 

12. Values for a Joint World—The Dialogue Model. Edited with Jesper Garsdal. Submitted. 

(ca. 400 pages, 20 authors) 

1 Reviewed in: Mind, Review of Metaphysics, Canadian Philosophical Review, Theologie und 

Philosophie. 

2 Publication offers from Mouton DeGruyter und Ontos Verlag. Publication withheld make 

some substantive improvements; manuscript is now split into three (14-16), of which 14 and 

15 are close to submission.

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13. Philosophy of Conflict. Special issue of the Journal for Applied Philosophy. Edited with 

Morten Raffnsøe-Møller. In preparation. 

14. General Process Theory. Monograph in preparation. 

15. Activities and Dynamics. Monograph in preparation. 

16. The Myth of Substance. Monograph in preparation. 

Peer-reviewed articles and peer-reviewed book chapters: 

16. 1991a “Process” in: Handbook for Ontology and Metaphysics, ed. by H. Burkhardt, P. 

Simons et al. (München: Philosophia Verlag), 725-727. 

17. 1991b “W. Sellars’” ibd., 821-823. 

18. 1994a "A Janus View on N. Rescher's Perspectival Pluralism," Philosophy and 

Phenomenological Research, 54, 433-439. 

19. 1994b "Der Mythos der Substanz: Eine Studie zur Präsuppositionsstruktur der 

Identitätsdiskussion", Konstanzer Berichte: Philosophie der Geistes- und 

Sozialwissenschaften 15, 1- 35. 

20. 1995a "Individuen als Prozesse: Zur prozeß-ontologischen Revision des 

Substanzparadigmas," Logos 2, 352-384. 

21. 1995c "Philosophische Positionen: W. Sellars," Information Philosophie, 22-26. 

22. 1996a "Non-countable Individuals: Why One and the Same Is Not One and the 

Same," Southwest Philosophy Review 12 (1996), 225-237. 

23. 1996b "Der Umbau des 'Aufbau': Carnap und die analytische Ontologie," Deutsche 

Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44, 807-835. 

24. 1996c "The Myth of Substance and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness," Acta 

Analytica 15, 61-76. 

25. 1997a "Existence in Time: From Substance to Process," in: Perspectives on Time. 

Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, ed. by J. Faye, U. Scheffler, M. Urs, (Dordrecht: 

Kluwer), 143-182.

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26. 1997b "The 'Umbau': From Constitution Theory to Constructionism," History of 

Philosophy Quarterly 14, 305-351. 

27. 1997c "Moving Beyond Substance," in: R. Solomon, Introducing Philosophy (Orlando: 

Hartcourt Brace), 118-124. 

28. 1999 “Dinge als Prozesse,” in: Neue Ontologie und Metaphysik, ed. by R. Hüntelmann 

and E. Tegtmair, 11-41. 

29. 2000a “Constitution Theory and Metaphysical Neutrality: A Lesson for Ontology?” 

The Monist 83, 161-183. 

30. 2000b "Pure Processes and Projective Metaphysics," Philosophical Studies 101, 253- 

289. 

31. 2000c “Fission, Sameness, and Survival: Parfit’s Branch Line Argument Revisited,” 

Metaphysica 2, 96-134. 

32. 2000d "The Dynamic Constitution of Things," in: Faye, J. et al. (eds.), Facts and 

Events. Poznañ Studies in Philosophy of Science. 72, 241-278. 

33. 2001a "Ontological Categories: the Explanation of Categorial Inference", in: 

Wahrheit—System – Struktur: Auseinandersetzungen mit Metaphysik, ed. by D. 

Greimann et al. (Olms-Verlag) 272-297 

34. 2002a “Quanta, Tropes, or Processes: On Ontologies for QFT beyond the Myth of 

Substance,” in: Kuhlmann, M. et. al., (eds.) Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field 

Theory, World Scientific: Singapore, 53-93. 

35. 2003b "Free Process Theory: Towards a Typology of Processes" in: Seibt 2003a and 

2004a, 23-57. 

36. 2004b "Processes and Particulars," in: Process Metaphysics, ed. by M. Weber, Ontos- 

Verlag, Frankfurt, 113-135. 

37. 2005a “Kognitive Orientierung als epistemisches Abenteuer,” in: W. Stegmaier 

(ed.), Analyse und Orientierung, 197-224. 

38. 2005b „Process Ontologies“ (in Portuguese), in: Metafisica e Ontologia, ed. G. 

Imaguire, Philosophia Verlag, München.

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39. 2006 (J. Rijkhoff & J. Seibt) “Mood, Definiteness, and specificity,” Tidsskrift for 

Sprogforskning, Vol. 3, Nr. 2 , 85-132 

40. 2009 ”Forms of emergent interaction in General Process Theory,” Synthese 166, 479- 

512. 

41. 2010 “Functions Between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing,” in: Empiricism, 

Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism, ed. by Willem A. de Vries. Oxford 

University Press, 247-283 

42. 2010 “Particulars,” in: Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives, 

ed. by Roberto Poli ; Johanna Seibt. Vol. 1 New York : Springer Publishing 

Company, 23-57. 

43. 2011 (J. Seibt & M. Nørskov) “Embodying the Internet—Towards the Moral Self Via 

Communication Robots?” Philosophy & Technology DOI 10.1007/s13347-012-0064-9. 

44. 2012 (F. Martinsen & J. Seibt) “Climate Change and Shared Ecological 

Responsibility,” Environmental Ethics, forthcoming. 

45. 2011 “Experience without Representation: Reflections on Sellars’ naturalist theory of 

experience,” in Humana Mente, forthcoming. 

46. 2012 “Process Philosophy”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming. 

47. 2012 “Activities”, in Handbook of Mereology, forthcoming. 

48. 2012 “Transitivity”, in Handbook of Mereology, forthcoming. 

49. 2012 “Processes”, in Handbook of Mereology, forthcoming. 

Book chapters: 

49. 1995b "Die Einheit der Handlung: Kommentar zu E. Runggaldier", Metaphysik --Neue 

Zugänge zu alten Fragen, ed. by J.L. Brandl, A. Hieke, P.M. Simons (München: 

Academia Verlag) 279-288. 

50. 2005 Der Mythos der Substanz. In Käthe Trettin (ed.) Substanz—Neue Überlegungen 

zu einer klassischen Kategorie des Seienden. Klostermann, Frankfurt. 197-229 

51. 2008 Beyond Endurance and Perdurance: Recurrent Dynamics. In Christian Kanzian 

(ed.), Persistence. Ontos Verlag. 121-153.

Conference Proceedings: 

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52. 2001b “Formal Process Ontology,” in: Formal Ontology in Information Systems: 

Collected papers from the second international conference, : ed. by Welty, C. and Smith, 

B., Ogunquit: ACM Press, 333-345. 

53. 2001c “Processes in the Manifest and Scientific Image,” in: Metaphysic im 

postmetaphysischen Zeitalter/Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, ed. by U. 

Meixner, Wien: öbv&hpt, 218-230. 

Book reviews:: 

54. 1984 N. Rescher, The Limits of Science, in: Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 

19, 165-170. 

55. 1988 N. Rescher, Process Metaphysics. An Introduction, in: Review of Metaphysics, 713f. 

56. 2002b C. Kanzian, Ereignisse und andere Partikularien. Grazer Philosophische Studien 

65, 223-236. 

57. 2001d J.A. Cover/J. O’Leary-Hawthorne, Substance and Individuation in Leibniz. SATS 

–the Nordic Journal of Philosophy. 

58. 2004 J. Garcia, Metaphysics—The Study of Categories, in: Metaphilosophy 35, 775-783. 

Other publications: 

60. 1987 Translation of "What Is A Theory of Truth?," by S. Soames, in: Der 

Wahrheitsbegriff. Neue Erklärungsversuche, ed. by L.B. Puntel, (Darmstadt: 

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 256-284. 

61. 1988 "Bedeutung als Funktion" (Obituary for W. Sellars), Frankfurter Allgemeine 

Zeitung. 

62. 1990c "W. Sellars," (Nachruf) Erkenntnis, 7-11. 

63. 1991c "Marginalia of the Manifest Image," Sellars-Webpage: http://csmaclab- 

www.uchicago.edu/ philosophyProject/sellars/sellars.html.

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64. 2000f Translation of “Refuting Sellars’ Refutation of Realism” by H. Hochberg, in: 

Seibt 2000e. 

65. 2000g Translation of “The Centrality of Sellars’ Two Ply Account of Observation to 

the Arguments in ‘Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind’” by R. Brandom, in: 

Seibt 2000e. 

66. 2000h Translation of “Sellars’ Linguisticism” by D. Sosa, in: Seibt 2000e. 

67. 2003e “Philosophieunterricht in Deutschland—Amerika als Vorbild?”, Information 

Philosophie 4, 142-144

Talks 

(a) Invited Lectures (Departmental Colloquia) 

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1. Oct. 1990 "Substance Ontology," Lecture Series of the Undergraduate Association, 

University of Texas at Austin. 

2. June 1991 "Der Mythos der Substanz," Universität Salzburg, Austria, 

3. July 1991 "Der Mythos der Substanz," Universität Konstanz, Germany. 

4. Nov. 1991 "The myth of substance: an ontological adventure game," Annual 

Easterwood Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. 

5. May 1993 "Prozeß und Substanz: Eine Studie zur Revision der Substanzontologie," 

Universität Konstanz, Germany. 

6. June 1993 "Verdoppelung und bessere Hälfte: Parfits Theorie der personalen 

Identität," Forschungskolloquium der Universität Konstanz. 

7. July 1993 "Individuen als Prozesse: Eine Studie zur Revision der Substanz- 

Ontologie," Universität München, Germany. 

8. June 1994 "Identität und Individualität: Bemerkungen zu Heraklit's Badewasser," 

Forschungskolloquium der Universität Konstanz, Germany. 

9. Dec. 1994 "Bits and Pieces: Leibniz-Whiteheadian Remarks on the Ontology of 

Extension," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 

10. July 1995 "Nicht-partikulare Individuen: Grundlagen einer Prozeß-Ontologie," 

Universität Konstanz, Germany. 

11. Dec. 1995 "Everything Is Water If You Look Long Enough," University of Texas at 

Austin. 

12. July 1996 "Alles ist Wasser, wenn man nur lange genug hinsieht," Universität 

Innsbruck, Austria. 

13. Feb. 2000 “Process and Persistence,” University of Aarhus. 

14. Dec. 2000 “Activities,” University of Aarhus.

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15. Dec. 2000 “Everything is Water If You Look Just Long Enough,” Society for 

16. Philosophy and Psychology, University of Copenhagen. 

17. June 2001 “Prozess-Ontologie neben Whitehead,” University of Bonn, Germany 

18. Jan. 2002 “Individuen ohne Grenzen: neue Wege der Prozess-Ontologie,” University 

of Potsdam, Germany. 

19. Nov. 2002 "Free Process Theory," University of Roskilde, Denmark. 

20. April 2003 "Action Types As Aspectual Inference Networks and Aristotle's Notion of 

21. Energeia," Aarhus University. 

22. May 2003 "Going On and Coming About: The Riddle of Dynamicity," Filosofisk 

Forening, Lund, Sweden. 

23. May 2003 "Free Process Theory," University of Lund, Sweden. 

24. June 2003 Lecture Series at the University of Greifswald, Germany: Neue Wege der 

analytischen Ontologie: 

a. (A1) "Der Mythos der Substanz" 

b. (A2) "Prozessontologien" 

c. (A3) "Die Theorie der Freien Prozesse: Einige Anwendungen." 

d. (B1) "Carnap und die Entwicklung der analytischen Philsophie" 

e. (B2) "Ontologie als Theorie kategorialer Folgerungen." 

25. Dec. 2004 „Die GOL-Architektur im Vergleich“, Graduierten-Kolleg des OntoMed- 

Instituts (Medizinische Informatik), Universität Leipzig. 

26. Mar. 2005 „Was ist ein Prozess? Funktionale und quantitative Perspektiven der 

Wahrnehmungen von Abläufen im interkulturellen Vergleich“ (Arbeitstitel), Zeit— 

Impulstagung der GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit). 

27. Jan. 2010 „Persistence as Recurrence: An Application of General Process Theory,“ 

University of Münster, Dept of Geoinformatics. 

28. Jan. 2012 „Eperience without representation: Reflections on Sellars’ naturalist theory 

of perception,“ University of Bonn, Dept of Philosophy.

(b) Invited Conference Talks 

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29. Feb. 1994 "Die Einheit der Handlung: Kommentar zu E. Runggaldier," Internationaler 

Kongreß der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Salzburg, Austria. 

30. June 1994 "Identity and Individuality: Why One and the Same is not One and the 

Same", IUC Dubrovnik Conference, Bled, Slovenia. 

31. Sept. 1997 "Honest Toil: Process Ontology Beyond Whitehead," Internationaler 

Kongreß der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Innsbruck, Austria. 

32. Mar. 1995 "The Umbau: On the Reconstruction of Constructional Ontology," 

German-American Interaction in Scientific Philosophy, International Conference at the 

Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh. 

33. Sep. 1996 "Carnap's Neutralism: Truth or Consequences." The Austrian Tradition. 

University of Texas at Austin, 

34. Oct. 1996 "Sellars' Projective Construction of Ontological Categories." The Philosophy 

of Wilfrid Sellars. International Conference of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 

Dunabogdany, Hungary. 

35. May 1997 "The Dynamic Constitution of Things," Baltic Workshop on Ontology 4, 

Osiecki, Poland. 

36. May 1999 "Dinge und Prozesse," Metaphysik-Kongress, Köln. 

37. Aug. 1999 "Process Ontology in the Scientific Image," 22. Internationales Wittgenstein 

Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria. 

38. Sep. 1999 " Heuristic Preliminaries for an Ontology of Quantum Field Theory," The 

39. Ontology of Quantum Field Theory, An International Conference at the Zentrum für 

Interdisciplinäre Forschung Bielefeld, Germany. 

40. Feb. 2000 “On the Unity of Actions and Agents,” Filosofi og Kontekst, Annual 

Meeting of the Dansk Filosofisk Selskab, Aarhus, Denmark. 

41. Nov. 2001 “Contemporary Ontological Alternatives,” Musikens ontologi og betydning, 

42. First Meeting of the Netvaerk for tvaervidenskabelige studier af semantik og musik, 

Odense, Denmark.

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43. June 2002 "Free Process Theory," Processes: Analysis and Applications of Dynamic 

44. Categories, Sandbjerg, Denmark. 

45. July 2003 "Ontological Requirements of Emergence," The 2nd International Conference 

on Interactionism, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

46. Oct. 2003 "Adventures of Ideas—Prozesse der Wissensbildung," Analyse und 

Orientierung, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Greifswald, 

Germany. 

47. May 2004 „Processes and Propensities,“ Processes and Probability, University of Lund, 

Sweden. 

48. June 2004 “Institutionen als Interaktionseinheit: Zur Emergenz, Persistenz und 

Veränderung institutioneller Identität”, Die Ontologie der Institutionen, University of 

Dresden, Germany. 

49. Sept. 2004 „New Tools for Old Tasks in the Theory of Cognition,“ Process and 

Cognition, Workshop of the Parmenides Foundation, Verona, Italy. 

50. May 2005 The Philosophy of John McDowell, an International and Transnational 

Conference, Warwick (England) and Sandbjerg (Denmark). 

51. June 2006 “Functions between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing,” 50 Years of 

“Empiricms and Philosophy of Mind”, University of London, GB. 

52. Oct. 2006 “Forms of Interaction and Emergence,” Causation and Motivation, 

University of Bolzano, Italy. 

53. June 2009 “Functions, Norms, and Values: A Process-Ontological Analysis,” The 

Stakes of Contemporary Ontological Thinking, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Univ. of 

Sofia, Bulgaria. 

54. March 2010 “Allgemeine Prozesstheorie” (Lecture 1) OntoCell Workshop, Univ. of 

Rostock, Germany 

55. March 2010 “Die Ontologie emergenter Prozesse in biologischen Zellen,” (Lecture 2) 

OntoCell Workshop, Univ. of Rostock, Germany 

56. (June 2012 “Sellars’ Functionalism: A Precursor to Embodied Cognition?” Sellars 

Centennial Conference, Univ. of Dublin, Ireland)

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57. (June 2012 “What is dynamicity?”, Dynamic Ontologies, Bulgarian Academy of 

Sciences, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria.) 

(c) Reviewed Conference Talks 

58. Apr. 1992 "How Parfit Failed to Fail" Meetings of the Central Division of the 

American Philosophical Association, Lexington. 

59. Mar. 1993 "Substance and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness," Meetings of the 

Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco. 

60. May 1993 "Dynamic Masses: A Study in Revisionary Ontology," 1st Congress of the 

European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence, France. 

61. Nov. 1995 "Non-Countable Individuals," Meetings of the Southwestern Philosophical 

Society, Austin. 

62. Oct. 2001 “Formal Process Ontology,” Formal Ontology and Information Systems, 

63. Second Meeting, Maine, USA. 

64. Sep. 2004 “General Process Theory”, Dynamic Ontology—An Inquiry into Systems, 

Emergence, Levels of Reality, and Forms of Causality, Trento, Italy. 

(d) Keynotes at large conferences (100+ participants): 

65. Oct. 2007 “Modes of Occurrence in General Process Theory” Concepts, Types, and 

Functions, Düsseldorf 2007; 

66. Dec. 2008 “General Process Theory,” Formal Ontology in Information Systems, IFOMIS 

2008, Saarbrücken.

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