Christoph Fehige

Christoph Fehige (* 1963 ) is a German philosopher with an analytical orientation . He holds a professorship for practical philosophy at the Saarland University and is also a visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department of the University of Konstanz .

Fehige studied philosophy and mathematical logic in London, Münster, Paris and Osnabrück, among others with Georg Meggle . He works closely with him and his student Ulla Wessels . Fehige previously held a professorship in social philosophy at the University of Bayreuth and taught philosophy at the University of Leipzig .

In research and teaching, Fehige works in the field of ethics and practical reason , including topics from the logic and philosophy of mind . The focus is on: affects and desires , reasons for actions , the foundations of ethics, benevolence and sympathy , justice , consequentialism , the welfare thought , utilitarianism , the logic of preference and deontic logic , political philosophy , population ethics , the meaning and value of life and the history of these topics and British moral philosophy , particularly Francis Hutcheson and David Hume .

In 1997, Fehige received the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize for his work A Pareto Principle for Possible People . In 2012 Christoph Fehige was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz .

Publications (selection)

Books

Should I? . Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Ditzingen 2004, ISBN 3-15-018339-1 , online (PDF; 3.8 MB), (book review by Harald Stücker, in: literaturkritik.de, No. 7, July 2005 )
Ends and Means . University of Leipzig 2000

Editorships

(with Georg Meggle): On moral thinking . 2 vols., Frankfurt a. M. 1995 (Suhrkamp) ISBN 3-518-28722-2
(with Ulla Wessels): Preferences (Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy, Vol. 19). Berlin 1998 (Walter de Gruyter) ISBN 3-11-015007-7
(with Georg Meggle and Ulla Wessels): The meaning of life. Philosophical and other texts , dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-30744-7
(with Christoph Lumer and Ulla Wessels): acting with meaning and acting with violence , Paderborn 2009 (Mentis) ISBN 3-89785-675-1

Articles (selection)

The Limit Assumption in Deontic (and Prohairetic) Logic , in: Analyomen 1 , ed. v. G. Meggle and U. Wessels, Berlin 1994 (Walter de Gruyter)
The great misfortune of the smaller number , in: On moral thinking (see above)
Rawls and Preferences , in: To the idea of political liberalism , ed. v. W. Hinsch, Frankfurt a. M. 1997 (Suhrkamp)
(together with Ulla Wessels): Preferences: An Introduction and a Short Bibliography , in: Preferences (see above)
(together with Ulla Wessels): Introduction to Possible Preferences , in: Preferences (see above)
A Pareto Principle for Possible People , in: Preferences (see above)
Justice beyond desires? , in: The Idea of a Political Liberalism , ed. V. Davion and C. Wolf, Totowa, NJ, 2000 (Rowman and Littlefield)
Instrumentalism , in: Varieties of Practical Reasoning , ed. E. Millgram, Cambridge, Mass., 2001 (MIT Press)
Editing Hutcheson's Inquiry , in: British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2005)
The Weight of Self-Love in Benevolence and Virtue , in: acting with meaning and acting with violence (see above)
(with Robert H. Frank): Feeling Our Way to the Common Good , appears in: The Monist 93 (2010)