Jana Tabea Stern

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (BMBF-Projekt Bildersturm)

Jana Tabea Stern M.A.

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Fields of work

Feminist philosophy, social epistemology, political philosophy

Active ignorance, epistemic injustice, sexism & misogyny, philosophy of sex & sexuality

since 11/2022 Research Associate, TU Dresden and in the BMBF-funded joint project "Bildersturm: Making women visible in philosophy and establishing new role models "
since 11/2022 PhD, TU Dresden, supervisor Prof. Dr. Tamara Jugov, (preliminary) title: Epistemic injustice and male ignorance in philosophy
2018-2022 MA Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin (thesis title: "Bisexual Erasure and Epistemic Injustice - On the Epistemic Harms of Ignorance about Bisexuality")
2015-2021 Student Assistant at the Department of Practical Philosophy with Prof. Stefan Gosepath, Freie Universität Berlin
2014-2018 BA Philosophy and Journalism & Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and Universiteit van Amsterdam (Thesis title: "Responsibility for Global (In)Justice - Iris Marion Young's Model of Social Connectedness")

11.12.2024, "Epistemic injustice and women in academic philosophy", Food for Thought Gender Lunch Talks, Mainz
24.09.2024, "The diversity problem of academic philosophy as structural injustice", XXVI German Congress of Philosophy, University of Münster
05.04.2024, "Responsibility for structural injustice - Iris Marion Young's model of social connectedness and its critique", Fachtag Philosophie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
06.03.2024, "The Underrepresentation of Women as Structural Injustice", Bildersturmverbundtagung, TU Dresden
28.02.2024, "Epistemic Injustice and Male Ignorance", Holosophy Talks, Hole of Fame e.V. Dresden
20.05.2023, "How can expertise by experience remedy epistemic injustice? The case of concretism" with co-author Pascal Lemmer, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry, San Francisco (funded with a Travel Award from the Graduate Academy)
20.05.2021, "Safe, Sane & Consensual - what BDSM practices reveal about consent", Student Lecture Series in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
22.02.2020, "Women in Philosophy: Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Epistemic Injustice", SWIP Workshop Work in Progress, Freie Universität Berlin
04.06.2019, "Why are there so few women in academic philosophy?", Student Lecture Series in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin

Summer semester 25: Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality (with Tamara Jugov)
Winter semester 23/24: Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (seminar)

(in preparation) Stern, Jana Tabea. "White Ignorance & Male Ignorance. Privileged group-based ignorance." In: Hilkje Hänel (ed.) Charles Mills' Political Philosophy. Transcript Verlag (2025).
Stern, Jana Tabea. "Responsibility for structural injustice". Mitteilungen des Fachverbands Philosophie 64 (2024): 46-62.
Lemmer, Pascal M. and Jana Tabea Stern. "fem.wis - Standpunkte aus der feministischen Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie Konferenz an der TU Dortmund, 16. und 17.11.2023." feministische studien 42, no. 1 (2024): 170-173. doi:10.1515/fs-2024-0019.

Member of the board of SWIP Germany e.V.
SWIP ambassador for the TU Dresden
Contact person for discrimination and sexualized violence at the Institute of Philosophy