Jerôme Schickschneit

Research Assistant: June 2023 – Current

Jerôme is an interdisciplinary academic, currently pursuing a master´s degree in philosophy alongside his roles as a registered social worker and a freelance artist specialising in dance, theatre, and performance art. His academic interests span theoretical, practical, social, and expressive domains, with a particular focus on epistemology, ontology, philosophy of culture, aesthetics, ethics, and the social sciences. His current research focuses on four main areas: (i) investigating the phenomenon of 'transformative experience and its implications for standard theories of choice; (ii) exploring ontological pluralism, ontological anarchism and (new) realism; (iii) investigating non-propositional forms of knowledge; (iv) and advocating the recognition of 'childhood' as a significant yet overlooked theme in subjectivity research.

His (work-in-progress) Master's thesis analyses Heidegger's phenomenological ontology, reframing it as a theory focused on transformation and transformative experience. His research emphasises the connection between non-propositional (conceptual) knowledge, hermeneutic limits and freedom, while also incorporating insights from contemporary analytic existentialism.