Franziska Dübgen

Franziska Dübgen is a Professor of Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, specializing in Political Philosophy and Legal Philosophy. She leads project A3-34 on Articulations of the 'Political' in Contemporary Postcolonial Contexts within the Cluster of Excellence's Research Field A.

Education:

• Doctorate in Philosophy (2008-2012), JW Goethe University Frankfurt, supervised by Rainer Forst
• Magisterstudium in Philosophy, Political Science, and Italian (2000-2007), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research Interests: Dübgen explores transformative legal critique, epistemic injustice, and transcultural justice frameworks. Her work intersects Critical Race Studies, Philosophy of Gender, and African Environmental Ethics, addressing structural inequalities in legal systems and postcolonial knowledge production.

Key Article Trends: Recent publications focus on Paulin Hountondji's epistemic liberation, authoritarian legal systems, Ubuntu-inspired environmental ethics, and decolonial practices in Arabo-Islamic philosophy. These works emphasize dismantling Eurocentrism and reimagining justice through global South perspectives.