Marcel van Ackeren

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Marcel van Ackeren (born July 8, 1971 in Emmerich ) is a German philosopher and historian of philosophy .

Live and act

Marcel van Ackeren studied social sciences and philosophy at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Glasgow and graduated in 1996 with a diploma in social sciences. From 1996 to 1998 he conducted research at Keble College at the University of Oxford with Bernard Williams and Michael Frede, among others . In 2001 he was at the University of Bochum with a dissertation on Plato doctorate . From 2002 he was a research assistant at the University of Bonn and had research stays at the Universities of Cambridge (2003, 2007 and 2017 at Trinity College ) and Bern (2003–2004). From 2007 to 2014 he was a research assistant at the Philosophical Department of the University of Cologne . There he completed his habilitation in 2010 with a thesis on the philosophy of Marc Aurel .

He held visiting professorships and substitute professorships at several universities, for example in Milan , Hanover , Cologne, Würzburg , Münster , Osnabrück and Freiburg .

He was a fellow of several institutions such as the Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald , the Center for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Münster, the Mansfield College and the Jesus College at the University of Oxford and the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.

Marcel van Ackeren is a private lecturer at the Philosophical Seminar at the University of Cologne and Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His main focus is on ancient practical philosophy , political philosophy , metaphilosophy , metaethics and the methodology of philosophy.

Fonts

  • The knowledge of the good. Significance and continuity of virtuous knowledge in Plato's dialogues. Dissertation. University of Bochum, 2001. Grüner, Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-6032-368-8
  • Heraclitus. Diversity and unity of its philosophy. Lang, Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-03910-815-2 .
  • Marc Aurel's philosophy. 2 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025542-3 (revised version of the habilitation thesis at the University of Cologne, 2010).
Volume 1: Text form - stylistic features - self-dialogue. DNB 1012312577 .
Volume 2: Topics - Terms - Arguments. DNB 1017427585 .

Editing:

  • Understand Plato. Topics and perspectives. Collection of articles. WBG, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 978-3-534-17442-3 . New edition 2011.
  • with Orrin Finn Summerell: The political identity of the West. Platonism in the dialogue of cultures. Conference brochure. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55545-3 .
  • with Jörn Müller : Understanding ancient philosophy. Collection of articles. WBG, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-534-18815-4
  • with Theo Kobusch , Jörn Müller: Why still philosophy? Historical, systematic and social positions. Collection of articles. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022375-0 .
  • with Jan Opsomer: self-contemplation and self-portrayal. The philosopher and emperor Marc Aurel in an interdisciplinary light. Conference brochure. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-89500-929-7 .
  • A Companion to Marcus Aurelius. Wiley, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4051-9285-9 .
  • with Lena Robaszkiewicz (collaborator): texts on political philosophy. Swell. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-019267-2 .
  • with Michael Kühler: The Limits of Moral Obligation. Moral demandingness and ought implies can. Routledge, New York / London 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-82423-2 .
  • with Lee Klein: Philosophy and the historical perspective. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-726629-8 .
  • with Sophie-Grace Chappell: Ethics beyond the Limits. New Essays on Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Routledge, London / New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-48164-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel van Ackeren on the website of the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics at Oxford University
  2. ↑ Marcel van Ackeren on the website of the Philosophical Seminar at the University of Cologne
  3. ↑ Marcel van Ackeren on the Oxford University website, accessed December 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ackeren, Marcel van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmerich