Angelika Krebs

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Angelika Krebs

Angelika Krebs (born August 12, 1961 in Mannheim ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Angelika Krebs is the daughter of the German teacher Joachim Krebs and his wife Hilde. She passed her A-levels in Mannheim in 1981 and studied philosophy , German literature and musicology at the University of Freiburg until 1983 . After two years of study abroad at New College , Oxford University , with private lessons ( "tutorials") among others, Michael Dummett , Peter Strawson and John McDowell she sat from 1985 it studied philosophy and German literature as a fellow of the studienstiftung at the University Constance , especially with Friedrich Kambartel and Jürgen Mittelstrass . In 1987 she completed her studies with a master's thesis on Michael Dummett under Friedrich Kambartel.

She began her doctoral studies in Konstanz in 1988 with a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. From 1989 to 1990 she spent a year at the Philosophical Institute at the University of Berkeley with private lessons with Bernard Williams , Barry Stroud and Evelyn Fox Keller. From 1990 she had a position as a research assistant at Friedrich Kambartel, initially in Konstanz , and from 1993 to 2001 in Frankfurt am Main . In 1993 she received her PhD summa cum laude with the thesis Ethics of Nature. A map at the Philosophy Department of the University of Frankfurt with Friedrich Kambartel, Jürgen Habermas and Bernard Williams. For this work she received the environmental protection award of the University of Frankfurt in 1994 and the Stegmüller award of the Society for Analytical Philosophy . In addition to her assistant work, Krebs was able to undertake various stays abroad and had lectureships on ethics at the University of Freiburg in 1994/1995 and a lectureship on political philosophy at the University of Zurich in 1995/1996 . In addition, from 1994 to 1995 she was a lecturer in the management team of the ethics training course at the Hessian Ministry of Culture . From 1999 to 2005 she was also a board member of the German Society for Philosophy .

Her habilitation took place with the work work and love. The philosophical foundations of social justice in Frankfurt with the reviewers Friedrich Kambartel, Axel Honneth , Barbara Merker and Julian Nida-Rümelin . In 2001 she was appointed to the chair for practical philosophy at the University of Basel as the successor to Annemarie Pieper . From 2005 to 2006 she was a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Center for Human Values ​​at Princeton University . From 2002 to 2006, Krebs was a member of the board of the Swiss Philosophical Society . She has been a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2010. In 2013 she founded the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions together with Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (Haifa) and Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens). In 2014 she was a Rachel Carson Fellow at LMU Munich.

Focus of work

Angelika Krebs deals primarily with contemporary practical philosophy , in particular applied ethics and social philosophy . Further topics are political economy , philosophy of language and gender studies ; in recent years her research focus has shifted to the philosophy of feelings and aesthetics. A special project is the development of a dialogical philosophy of love in the outcome of Max Scheler and Martin Buber . In 2017 she edited a four-volume work together with Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (University of Haifa), which brings together the most important texts on the more recent theory of emotions.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Nature ethics. Basic texts of the current animal and eco-ethical discussion . Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 1997.
  • Ethics of Nature. A map . With a foreword by Bernard Williams . DeGruyter. Berlin / New York 1999.
  • (Ed.): Equality or Justice. Texts of the new critique of egalitarianism . Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 2000. ISBN 3518290959 .
  • Work and love. The philosophical foundations of social justice . Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 2002. ISBN 3518291645 .
  • (Ed.): Ethics of the lived life (together with G. Pfleiderer and K. Seelmann ). Pano. Zurich 2011.
  • Between you and me. A dialogical philosophy of love . Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 2015. (Introduction) (PDF; 108 kB)
  • Why Landscape Beauty Matters , Land 2014, 3 (4), 1251-1269; doi : 10.3390 / land3041251
  • (Ed.): Philosophy of Emotion (together with A. Ben-Ze'ev). Four volumes: I. The Nature of Emotions, II. Emotions and the Good Life, III. Morality, Aesthetics, and the Emotions, IV. Specific Emotions. Routledge. London 2017. ISBN 1138906646 .
  • (Ed.): The Meaning of Moods (together with A. Ben-Ze'ev). Guest edition of an issue of Philosophia magazine. Jumper. Berlin 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Cancer, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim