Ruth Edith Hagengruber#
| Membership Number: | 7568 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ruth_e_hagengruber/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3360-6335 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ruth.hagengruber/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthhagengruber/?originalSubdomain=de |
| Publication Link: | https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ruth_e_hagengruber/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 President of the German Society for Philosophy DGPhil e.V.
- 2016 - present Director Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists www.historyofwomenphilosophers.org.
- 2006 - present Director Teaching and Research Area Philosophy of Economics and Technology
- 2006 - 2016 Director Teaching and Research Area Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, Germany
- 2005 - present Full Professor (W3) for Philosophy (chair), Institute of Humanities, Paderborn University, Germany
- 2003 Adjunct Professorship at the University of Koblenz, Germany
- 2003 Guest Professor at the Ramon Llull Institute, Faculty of History of Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
- 2001 - 2003 Assistant Professor for Philosophy, Economics and Information Science, University of Koblenz, Institute for Business Informatics
- 1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor for Philosophy, Institute for Humanities University of Koblenz and
- 1996 - 2004 Lecturer Albertus Magnus University, Cologne, Germany
- 1993 PhD in Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian-University Munich, Germany
- 1989 - 1992 Scholarship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 1989 - 1990 German Academic Exchange Scholarship, Naples, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Rewriting the Canon
- History of philosophy
- History of science and technology
- Algorithms and creativity
- History of women philosophers and scientists
- Philosophy in the media
- Digitization and ethics
Honours and Awards
- Since 2024 Member of the Committee of Gender Issues at the Féderation international des societés de philosophie FISP
- Since 2024 Advisory board member: NEH Women In Science, Project led by Bethany G. Anderson, Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist, University of Illinois, United States
- Since 2024 Consultant for the Journal Nigeria River State University Journal of Philosophy, editor-in-chief M.P. Eboh, Nigeria
- Since 2024 Member of the Zentrum Musik – Edition – Medien (ZenMEM), Paderborn University, Germany
- Since 2023 Advisory bord member ERC CultPhil. Project led by Helen Taylor, University of Exeter, Great Britain
- 2022 - 2025 Advisory bord member Numbers and Narratives, EDUCOM, University of East London, Great Britain A Project led by Maria Tamboukou, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow.
- Since 2023 Advisory board member Open Access Journal “Philosophy & Digitality”
- Since 2022 Advisory board member Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, North-Rhine- Westphalia, Germany
- 2021 - 2026 Scientific Director Digital and Historical Online Edition of the Paris Manuscript 12265 of Émilie Du Châtelet
- 2021 – 2025 Secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers, IAPH e.V.
- 2019 - 2025 Vice – President of the German Society of University Women e.V.
- 2019. Guest-editor British Journal for the History of Philosophy (27/4) "Women Philosophers in Early Modern Philosophy".
- 2018 'DARIAH-DE Digital Humanities-Award for the Design of the first Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers ECC
- 2017 - 2020 Scientific Director: Digital and Historical Online project Saint Petersburg Manuscripts of Émilie Du Châtelet, a cooperation with the Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg
- 2016 – 2025 Appointed Head of the Research Group Women in the History of Philosophy, DGPhil e.V.
- 2016 Research Award MOOC: 'Innovation in University Digital Teaching', Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research, NRW; Stifterverband, Germany
- 2015 Guest-editor MONIST (98,1) Edition of the first journal dedicated to the "History of Women's Ideas".
- 2015 Wiener-Schmidt - Award of the Society for Cybernetics and Systems Theory, e.V. Berlin, Germany
- 2015 Award of the Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung, Paderborn for the Multimedia project "Ada Lovelace"
- 2014 Award for Teaching Innovation for "Philosophy in the Media", Paderborn University, Germany
- 2011 - 2021 Scientific Director "At Home in Philosophy" Ministry of Education, Germany
- 2011 Appointed Life Time Member of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, IACAP
- 2011 - 2019 Board Member Center of Excellence Technology in Society, Technological University Munich, Germany
- 2009 - 2012 Deputy Chair of the German Society for the History of Science, e.V.
- 2007 - 2021 Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Paderborn, e.V.; M
- 2004 - 2007 Vice President of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy ESEMP
- 2002 - Visiting Professor Philosophy Department, Lodcz, Poland
- 2001 - 2003 Vice president of the German Society for French Speaking Philosophy
- 1996 - Visiting Professor (Summerschool) Istituto per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples
