Dr.Victoria Oertel

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Contact

E-mail
victoria.oertel-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@uni-flensburg.de
Building
Gebäude Helsinki
Room
HEL 131
Street
Auf dem Campus 1a
Post code / City
24943 Flensburg

Institutions

Name
Philosophisches Seminar
Position
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Lectures

No Title Type Semester
540020p Ansätze und Theorien der Fachdidaktik Seminar Autumn semester 2026
540023p Theorie-Praxis-Modul: Begleitseminar Praxissemester für Grundschule und Sonderpädagogik I Seminar Autumn semester 2026
540025p Theorie-Praxis-Modul: Begleitseminar Praxissemester für Grundschule und Sonderpädagogik I Seminar Autumn semester 2026
540021p Philosophie-Didaktik für die Grundschule und die Sekundarstufe Seminar Autumn semester 2026
540024p Theorie-Praxis-Modul: Begleitseminar Praxissemster für Gemeinschaftsschule und Sonderpädagogik Seminar Autumn semester 2026

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2026: Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Europa-Universität Flensburg, specialising in Philosophy Education for Primary and Comprehensive Schools
  • 2025–2026: Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy, University of Greifswald, specialising in Philosophy Education for Primary Schools
  • 2021–2025: Doctoral studies at the International Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes. Dissertation title: Nicht mehr normal? Die Narrativität philosophischer Krankheitstheorien am Beispiel von zwei Explikationen von 'Krankheit' vor und nach dem Beitritt der DDR zur BRD.
  • 2014–2021: Studies in Philosophy and Art (Teacher Education for Upper Secondary Schools) at the University of Greifswald

Talks (Selection)

  • Der Krankheitsbegriff und seine praktischen Folgen, Medical Humanities lecture series, interactive evening event MediPhil: Medizin trifft Philosophie, Department of Ethics, Theory and History of the Life Sciences (DETGeLWi), University of Greifswald, 29 November 2023.
  • How to (Re-)Construe Underlying Narratives in Definitions of Disease, Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society Stories of Illness and Health. Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics, University of Antwerp, 5–8 July 2023.
  • Disease as Peripety – Negotiating Perspectives on Public and Philosophical Discourse (with Nina Pilz), international conference Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narratives, organised by the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes, University of Greifswald, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, 26 May 2023.
  • Diagnosing Events. Observations about 'Event' and 'Disease', international workshop The Same Event? Morphologies, Reflections, Disseminations, organised by the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes, Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu, 15–17 December 2022.
  • Emplotment of Thresholds: Between Health and Disease, invited panel discussion Imperceptible Thresholds: New Heuristic Approaches (with Alexander Waszynski and Anna Derksen), University College Dublin, UCD Humanities Institute & Thresholds of Knowledge Research Strand, Dublin, 7 November 2022.
  • Conceptual Foundations of a Controversial System – Psychiatric Care in the GDR, annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO), Baltic Sea in Exchange. Transformations between Conflict and Cooperation, University of Greifswald, 7–9 July 2022.
  • Auf dem langen Weg zur deontischen Logik: Metaethische Positionen auf dem Prüfstand, conference Wahrheit – Bedeutung – Regeln, Department of Philosophy, University of Greifswald, 4–6 October 2018.

Publications

  • Justifying Questions: A Key to Understanding Inferences Involving Questions? In: Moritz Cordes (ed.): Asking and Answering. Rivalling Approaches to Interrogative Methods. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2021, pp. 156–164. Online
  • Review (with Moritz Cordes): Sebastian Luft: Philosophie lehren – ein Buch zur philosophischen Hochschuldidaktik. In: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 75(1), 2021. DOI
  • Peripetie: Ein Schlüssel zu den Narrativen philosophischer Krankheitsdefinitionen. In: Annette Sell (ed.): Diskurse über Krankheit. Zum Krankheitsbegriff in Philosophie, Medizin und Psychologie. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024, pp. 133–150. Publisher information
  • Glossary: Peripety. In: Eckhard Schumacher and Cordelia Heß (eds.): Baltic Peripeties – The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2025, pp. 305–307. DOI

Research Areas

  • Philosophy Education (especially the design and facilitation of philosophical dialogue)
  • Philosophy of Medicine (especially the concept of disease)
  • Metaethics (especially indispensability arguments)