David Schweikard

David Schweikard is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Europa-Universität Flensburg, holding this position since 2016. His academic career includes Junior Professor for European Political Philosophy (2016-2022), Acting professors (2022-2024), and prior affiliations with the University of Münster, University of Basel, Columbia University, University of Cologne, and Princeton University.

Research Focus: Schweikard’s work centers on collective intentionality, social ontology, Hegelian philosophy, and virtue epistemology. He explores the metaphysics of collective action, normative structures in family relationships, and the intersection of ethics and social theory. His entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on collective intentionality (with Hans Bernhard Schmid) is widely cited.

Publications: His 2011 monograph The Myth of the Singular – An Investigation into the Structure of Collective Action (mentis) and editorial collaborations on works by Philip Pettit, Marx, and Rorty demonstrate interdisciplinary engagement. Recent chapters in Distributed Agency (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Handbuch Handlungstheorie (Metzler, 2016) reflect evolving interests in group agency and historical social theory.

Academic Leadership: Schweikard serves on the

• Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Ontology
• Steering Committee of the International Social Ontology Society
• Research Center for Collective Science (University of Regensburg)