Office Hours
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Research
- Metaethics
- Normative Ethics, especially Virtue Ethics
- History of Ethics
- Theory of Action
- Axiology
- Theoretical and practical philosophy of German Idealism and its contemporary reception
Curriculum vitae
Since 2014 |
Full Professor, Chair of General Ethics, University of Zurich |
2014 |
Full Professor, Chair of Practical Philosophy, University of Konstanz |
2010 – 2014 |
Full Professor, Chair of the Foundations of Ethics and Applied Ethics, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
2007 – 2010 |
Project leader in the Collaborative Research Centre 482 "Ereignis Weimar-Jena. Kultur um 1800", |
2007 |
Winner of the Prize for outstanding research in the humanities und social sciences awarded by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
2006 – 2010 |
Full Professor, Chair of Philosophy (core area: Practical Philosophy) at the Friedrich Schiller-University Jena |
2005 – 2006 |
Interim Professor of Philosophy, (core area: Practical Philosophy) at the Friedrich Schiller-University Jena |
2005 |
Interim Professor of Philosophy (core area: Practical Philosophy/Ethics, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
2005 |
Habilitation in Philosophy, WWU of Münster. Habilitation thesis: "Praktische Gründe und die Realität der Moral" |
2004 |
Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (at the invitation of the faculty board) |
2001 – 2006 |
Research Assistant (C1) at the Chair of Practical Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep), University of Münster |
2000 – 2001 |
Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre 496 "Symbolische Kommunikation und Wertesysteme in der Vormoderne", subproject: "Grundlagen und Typen der Tugendethik" |
1999 |
PhD (summa cum laude) in Philosophy, thesis: "Erkenntnistheorie und Philosophy of Mind in Hegels System" ("Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind in Hegel's System") |
1997 – 1999 |
PhD student in Philosophy, University of Münster |
1992 – 1997 |
Studies of Classical Philology, Philosophy and Catholic Theology, University of Münster |