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Herbert Hrachovec

Herbert Hrachovec teaches at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna.

He has held scholarships and visiting appointments at the universities of Oxford (UK), Münster (FGR) Cambridge, Massachusetts (US), Berlin, Essen und Weimar (all FRG), Bergen (NO) as well as Klagenfurt (A) .

Awards for innovative teaching at the University of Vienna in 2001 and 2002.

Area of specialization: Analytic Philosophy, Aesthetics and Media Theory

He is currently deputy chairperson of the Department of Philosophy and chair of the central commitee for curriculum planning at the University of Vienna.

Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna, starting June 2006

Program Director of the CATaC Conferences ("Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication") in Tallin und Nimes (2006, 2008); Scientific director of the 30. International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, August 2007

For further information see: http:/hrachovec.philo.at and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrachovec