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Ariane Schneck

  • Position: Assistant Professor
  • Department: Department of Philosophy
Brief Biography

Ariane Schneck received her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2020. Before joining The American University in Cairo, she held teaching and research positions at Bielefeld University, LMU Munich and the interdisciplinary joint research project Iconoclasm – Making Women in Philosophy More Visible and Establishing New Role Models, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy and feminist philosophy.

Research Interest
  • AOS: Early modern philosophy (Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia, freedom/free will, mind-body problem, (proto-)feminism)
  • AOC: Feminist philosophy, philosophy of mind (esp. philosophy of emotions), metaphysics, aesthetics 
Education
  • PhD in philosophy (Dr. phil., summa cum laude), Humboldt University Berlin
  • PhD Research Stay, University of Sydney
  • Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC), Princeton University
  • Magister Artium (M.A.), LMU Munich
  • ERASMUS Stay at Université Paris X (Nanterre)
  • "Descartes’ Conception of Freedom: Between Voluntarism and Intellectualism,” Sonja Schierbaum/Jörn Müller (eds.): Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge 2024. 
  • “Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Neo-Peripatetic Account of the Emotions”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 4, June 2019, 753-770.
  • “Gewissen und Bewusstsein am Übergang zum 18. Jahrhundert,” Simon Bunke/Katerina Mihaylova (eds.): Gewissen. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das 18. Jahrhundert. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2015.
  • Special Issue of Topoi on “Moral Exemplarism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” Michaela Rehm/Ariane Schneck (guest eds.)