Associate Professor

I wrote my dissertation on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Phenomenology, not just Husserl's, continues to be of interest for me, but I am also interested in the origins and consequences of this movement. As far as the latter goes, I have done research on movements and philosophers coming out of phenomenology, such as Heidegger's fundamental ontology and Gadamer's hermeneutics. Concerning the origins, I have lately become interested in the most influential philosophical movement in Europe some 100 years ago; neo-Kantianism, but have made my way back from there to German Idealism and Kant. I am currently working on the issue of transcendental philosophy as it has been conceived by Kant and reinterpreted by people such as Hermann Cohen, Edmund Husserl and Ernst Cassirer, and the systematic implications of phenomenology, e.g., for the field of ethics.

Besides the two core courses in this department (Philosophy of Human Nature, Theory of Ethics), I have taught survey courses on the history of philosophy, aesthetics and existentialism, phenomenology, and individual figures in the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy, such as Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others.

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