Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2023
  Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy of Leipzig University
• 04/2022 - 09/2022
  Lectureship at the University of Freiburg
• 10/2021 - 03/2022
  DFG Research Fellow at the Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Free University of Berlin
• 06/2019 - 09/2021
  DFG Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
• 01/2019 - 05/2019
  Research Assistant at the Chair for Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology, University of Freiburg
• 05/2017 - 12/2018
  Research Fellow in the DFG Excellence Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools. Research Group Norms & Nature, University of Freiburg

Education

• 10/2013 - 11/2017
  PhD (summa cum laude) at the University of Freiburg Joint Doctoral Degree from the University of Strasbourg
• 09/2015 - 03/2016
  Doctoral Research at the University of Strasbourg
• 10/2010 - 09/2012
  Master of Arts in Philosophy (summa), University of Freiburg
• 10/2008 - 09/2009
  Erasmus Grant, University of Freiburg
• 10/2007 - 09/2010
  Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (summa), University of Iasi

Lucian Ionel's current project focuses on how we develop concepts of practical and intellectual capacities. The project examines how theories of mental faculties emerge from the question of the possibility of knowledge as posed by Meno's paradox, and how the views that naturally follow from Meno's paradox—rationalism, naturalism, and historicism—misconceive the nature of thinking. To this end, the project engages with neo-Kantian, neo-Aristotelian, and neo-Hegelian accounts and seeks to clarify the receptive nature of spontaneity.

From 2019 to 2021, Lucian Ionel conducted a DFG-funded research project at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, which was later continued at the "Human Abilities" Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Berlin until 2022. The project explored Aristotelian, Kantian and Hegelian views of rational faculties in order to move beyond the dichotomy between first and second nature.

His doctoral research explored the relationship between our conceptual capacities and our experience of meaning. It brought Hegel and Heidegger into a conversation about the negativity of concepts, i.e., how concepts make the world intelligible by concealing the source of its intelligibility. The resulting monograph was published by De Gruyter in 2020 under the title Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger.

• The Nature of Human Capacities

  Ionel, Lucian

  Duration: 06/2019 – 03/2022

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Praktische Philosophie
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more projects

• Ionel, L.

  Forms of Sensibility, or Hegel on Human Capacities

  International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 2023.

  DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2164935
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• Ionel, L.

  Acquiring Reason

  European Journal of Philosophy. 2022.

  DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12755
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• Ionel, L.

  Self-Consciousness as a Living Kind: On the Fourth Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology

  Hegel Bulletin. 2021.

  DOI: 10.1017/hgl.2020.28
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• Ionel, L.

  Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger

  Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 2020.

  DOI: 10.1515/9783110659801
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• Ionel, L.; Gourdain, S.

  Heidegger and German Idealism (Fichte/Hegel/Schelling): Subjectivity and Finitude

  In: Stewart, J. (Ed.)

  The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44571-3_16
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more publications

• Elizabeth Anscombe's action theory

  Seminar, Summer Semester 2023

• Aesthetic power of judgement

  Seminar, Winter Semester 2023/24

• Hegel's concept of Geist

  Seminar, Winter Semester 2023/24

• Being and Time

  Seminar, SoSe 2024. Together with Joris Spigt

• Weakness of will

  Seminar, Winter Semester 2024/25