Ulla Wessels

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Ulla Wessels (* 1965 ) is a German philosopher with an analytical orientation and holder of a professorship for practical philosophy at Saarland University .

Life

Wessels studied philosophy in Münster with Georg Meggle . She works closely with him and his student Christoph Fehige .

In research and teaching, Wessels works in the field of ethics and practical reason . The focus is on: desire , consequentialism , the welfare thought , utilitarianism , supererogation , moral psychology , meaning of life , bioethics ( abortion , genetic engineering ) and the history of these topics.

For work The good Samaritan woman. In 2003, Wessels received the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize on the structure of supererogation .

Wessels is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, which is critical of religion .

Process 2010 - 2015

In 2010 Wessels filed a lawsuit against her disregard for the refilling of a concordat chair for practical philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . She had applied three years earlier, but had not been appointed later. Wessel now took the position that her lack of Catholic church membership was the reason for this, and saw Article 33 of the Basic Law as being violated. The Ansbach Administrative Court stopped the recruitment process with an urgent application. After the university broke off the appointment procedure, Wessels attempted to have the illegality of their failure to take account of them in the selection decision established as part of a continuation action. With this request it failed before the administrative court in Ansbach; their appeal against this was not accepted for decision by the Bavarian Administrative Court because it was obviously unfounded. Nevertheless, at the beginning of April 2012, Wessels filed a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court. After her legal representative had publicly expressed doubts about the chances of success of the constitutional complaint in 2012, the Federal Constitutional Court finally rejected the complaint in 2015 as inadmissible.

Publications (selection)

  • (with Christoph Lumer and Christoph Fehige): acting with meaning and acting with violence , Paderborn 2009 (Mentis), ISBN 3-89785-675-1
  • The good Samaritan woman. On the structure of supererogation . (also Habil.-Schr.) Berlin, New York 2002 (de Gruyter), ISBN 3-11-017490-1
  • (with Georg Meggle and Christoph Fehige): The meaning of life. Philosophical and other texts , dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-30744-7
  • (with Christoph Fehige): Preferences (Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy, Vol. 19). Berlin 1998 (Walter de Gruyter), ISBN 3-11-015007-7
  • (Ed., With Georg Meggle): Analyomen 1 - Proceedings of the 1st Conference on "Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy" , Berlin / New York (de Gruyter), 1994.
  • The good . Verlag Vittorio Klostermann (Die Rote Reihe, Volume 41), Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-465-04123-8

Web links

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  1. ^ Wessels on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation
  2. ↑ Lawsuit regarding Concordat , July 18, 2011, sueddeutsche.de
  3. ↑ Do church chairs violate the constitution? , April 17, 2012, nordbayern.de
  4. ↑ Katja Auer: Constitutional complaint rejected. Court ends after five years of dispute over concordat chair . Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 3, 2015 (last accessed August 15, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Wessels, Ulla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1965