Department of Philosophy

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",
Subproject: "Recht, Staat und Natur: Legitimation des Staates nach dem Ende des Naturrechts"

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