Christine Chwaszcza

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christine Chwaszcza (* 1962 ) is a German philosopher and university lecturer .

academic career

Christine Chwaszcza obtained her Magister Artium in 1988 with the thesis "Methodological Individualism in Political Philosophy: Hobbes' Contract Model as Paradigm". From 1990 to 1994 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy of the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and received her doctorate in 1994 . The title of her doctoral thesis was "International Cooperation: Perspectives on a Normative Theory of International Relations". The doctorate followed in 1999 the habilitation at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in philosophy with the text “Practical reasons. Prolegomena to an Ethical Anthropology ”.

Between 1994 and 2000, Chwaszcza was a research assistant at Wolfgang Kersting's chair at the Philosophical Department at Kiel University. During this seminar she was promoted to senior assistant from 2000 and held this position until 2004. From September to December 2004, Chwaszcza was Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles . After her stay in Los Angeles, she worked from 2005 as a full professor in the Chair of Social and Political Theory of the   European University Institute in Florence . Chwaszcza has been a professor at the Philosophical Department of the University of Cologne since 2010 .

Research priorities

The focus of Chwaszcza's research lies in the areas of political philosophy and moral philosophy . In particular, she deals with practical rationality and normative justification.

Publications (selection)

  • Moral Responsibility and Global Justice. A Human Rights Approach , 2nd revised edition, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5945-6
  • Human rights and statehood, (Lectiones Inaugurales Vol. 4), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-14227-9
  • Social Agency and Practical Reasons. A Practice Account , Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-71986-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Cologne. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Christine Chwaszcza. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chwaszcza, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962