Urs Thurnherr

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Urs Thurnherr (born January 19, 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss philosopher .

Life

Thurnherr studied philosophy , modern German literature and German linguistics at the University of Basel from 1979 to 1988 . From 1990 to 2001 he was an assistant to Annemarie Pieper at the Philosophical Department of the University of Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1993 and habilitation in 1998. From 2000 to 2002 he was a lecturer for philosophy didactics at the Pedagogical Institute in Basel. Since April 2003 he has been C3 professor for philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Education .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Aesthetics of Existence: About the concept of the maxim and the formation of maxims in Kant. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1994 (dissertation).
  • with Annemarie Pieper : What should philosophers read? Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1994.
  • Applied ethics for introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2000; 2nd edition 2010.
  • Networked ethics: On the morality and ethics of life forms. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2001 (habilitation thesis).
  • ed. with Anton Hügli : Lexicon Existentialism and Existential Philosophy. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 19th edition (2003). Vol. 3, p. 3415.
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Martens et al. (Ed.): Philosophy and Education. Lit, Münster 2005, p. 274 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Thurnherr, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel