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Dr. Anne Sophie Meincke-Spann, M.A.
Anne Sophie Meincke-Spann
T: +43-1-4277-46078
https://www.annesophiemeincke.com/
Winter term 2025
180178 SE Metaphysics of Agency
Meincke, AS, Die Science Show mit Professor Haidinger: "Sie wissen wohl nicht, wer ich bin!" - Wieviel Kritik verträgt die Wissenschaft?, 2025, Radio show, ORF.
Meincke, AS, Brainwashing - eine kurze Geschichte der Gehirnwäsche, 2025, Radio show, ORF Ö1.
Meincke, AS, Links schlafende Katzen, freier Wille - Evolution: Warum Katzen lieber links schlafen, Kognition: Haben Tiere einen freien Willen?, 2025, Radio show, ORF Ö1.
Meincke, AS, Wissenschaftliche Argumente für den freien Willen, 2025, Web publication, ORF. <https://science.orf.at/stories/3230802/>
Meincke, AS, Dimensionen: Wittgensteinpreis, KI, Henne-Ei, Gletscher, 2025, Radio show, oe1.ORF.at Dimensionen.
Meincke, AS 2025, 'Willensfreiheit – metaphysische Illusion oder biologische Funktion?' Der Standard - Junge Akademie Blog. <https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000270961/willensfreiheit-metaphysische-illusion-oder-biologische-funktion>
Meincke, AS 2025, 'Das Rätsel des Bewusstseins: Ein philosophischer Blick auf den Zusammenhang von Leben und Bewusstsein' Der Standard - Junge Akademie Blog. <https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000256740/das-raetsel-des-bewusstseins>
Meincke, AS 2025, Continuant Processes or Processual Continuants? Towards an Analytic Process Metaphysics. in A Moran & C Rossi (eds), Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Meincke, AS 2025, 'Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson', Mind.
Meincke, AS 2024, 'The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology', Human Development, vol. 67, no. 5-6, pp. 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421
Meincke, AS 2024, 'Nachhaltigkeit durch Metaphysik: Plädoyer für einen ökologischen Humanismus' Der Standard. <https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000203657/nachhaltigkeit-durch-metaphysik-plaedoyer-fuer-einen-oekologischen-humanismus>
Meincke, AS 2024, 'Alles verkehrt. Verkehr als Seinsprinzip des Lebens', Wespennest: Zeitschrift für brauchbare Texte und Bilder, vol. 187, pp. 48-52.
Meincke, AS 2024, Emergent Properties. in ARJ Fisher & A-S Maurin (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Properties. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy, pp. 347-357.
Meincke, AS 2023, 'Free by Nature: The Biological Roots of Free Will' Rudolphina : Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Wien. <https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-problem-of-free-will-from-the-perspective-of-philosophy>
Meincke, AS & Woebken, D 2023, 'Was ist Leben?' Der Standard. <https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000192276/was-ist-leben>
Meincke, AS 2023, 'The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness', Biosemiotics, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 281-290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0
Meincke, AS 2023, ''Hervorbringende Organe', 'Bildende Kraft'? Heideggers Gegenentwurf zu Kants Theorie des Organismus', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 52-80. https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2023-0003
Meincke, AS 2023, Heidegger’s Process Metaphysics of Personhood. in N Elgabsi & B Gilbert (eds), Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 173-192.
Meincke, AS, Der freie Wille - eine Illusion? Das Konzept der Willensfreiheit, 2022, Radio show, ORF Ö1.
Meincke, AS 2022, 'Haben wir die Wahl beim Wollen? Anne Sophie Meincke sagt: ja. Warum sie auf die Biologie zurückgreift, um das zu beweisen, und weshalb es wichtig ist, den freien Willen auch zu trainieren, erzählt die Philosophin im Rudolphina-Interview.' Rudolphina : Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Wien.

Distinguished Lecture: "Free Will Is Real and Biology Helps Us Understand Why"

Meincke-Spann, A. S. (Speaker)

10 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Continuant Processes or Processual Continuants? Towards an Analytic Process Metaphysics

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

5 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ist unser Wille frei? Neue Perspektiven aus Philosophie und Biologie

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

24 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Tiere und Sprache

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

16 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Klimagerechtigkeit: Metaphysische Grundlagen

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

13 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Is All Life Conscious? Metaphysical Reflections

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

19 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Biological Indeterminism and the Function(s) of Natural Freedom

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

23 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Biological Indeterminism and the Function(s) of Natural Freedom

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

11 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Process Biology versus New Mechanism

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

27 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Norms in Nature and Realism about Moral Values

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

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Philosophische Auswege aus der Ökokrise

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

22 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Weiterwohnlichkeit der Welt. Hans Jonas’ Metaphysik der Verantwortung

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

20 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Process Ontology and Bio-Agency

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

27 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Welche gesellschaftliche Relevanz hat Kunst?

Meincke, A. S. (Speaker)

10 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Process Biology: A New Paradigm in the Philosophy of Biology

Meincke, A. S. (Keynote speaker)

16 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Development and Evolution Reconceived: Lessons from Process Ontology

Meincke, A. S. (Keynote speaker)

2 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

One or Two? A Process View of Pregnancy (Lectio Magistralis on occasion of the award of the 2020 Prize for Women in Logic and the Philosophy of Science by the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS))

Meincke, A. S. (Keynote speaker)

16 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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