Gerhard Zecha
- Teacher Training in Innsbruck
- Headmaster and teacher at the primary school in Dorf bei Längenfeld, Tyrol
- Teaching qualification examination for the teaching profession at primary schools in Innsbruck
- Studied educational science, philosophy and psychology at the University of Innsbruck
- Studied education, philosophy and psychology at the University of Salzburg
- PhD, University of Salzburg, 1968
- Philosophy teacher, University of Portland/USA – Salzburg Extension: 1968
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz: 1975/76
- Habilitation at the University of Salzburg, 1977
- Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, 1980
- Head of the department ‘Philosophy of Science in the Humanities’ at the Institute for Philosophy of Science at the International Research Centre for Fundamental Questions of Science Salzburg, 1984–2008
- Chairman of the Philosophical Society in Salzburg, 1984–2003
- Visiting Professor, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, USA, Salzburg Programme, 1995
- Professor at the Department of Philosophy, 1997
- Head of the Department of Philosophy, 1999-2001
- Guest lectures and guest professorships at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1980/81); at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (1984, 1993, 1996); at the University of California at Irvine, USA (1987/88); at the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (1989, 1992, 1996, 2000); at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa (1993); at the University of Potchefstroom for Christian Higher Education, Potchefstroom, South Africa (1996), at the University of Stellenbosch (2001, 2004), at the University of Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (2006), at Jilin University, Changchun, China (2010).
Since 2007: retired
Areas of Specialisation
- Philosophy of values
- Social philosophy
- Philosophy of science in the social sciences and humanities
