Ursula Wolf
Ursula Wolf ( * November 4, 1951 in Karlsruhe ) is a German philosopher. Their work focuses on the philosophy of antiquity (especially Aristotle ), action theory and ethics ( general moral theory and animal ethics ).
Life
Ursula Wolf studied philosophy and classical philology at Heidelberg, Konstanz and Oxford. She received her doctorate in 1978 in Heidelberg and completed his habilitation in 1983 at the Free University of Berlin. From 1984 to 1987 she was a professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, from 1987 to 1989 again at the University of Frankfurt and from 1989 to 1998 at the University of Berlin. Since 1998 she has held the Chair of Philosophy II at the University of Mannheim.
Publications
- Possibility and necessity in Aristotle and today, Fink, Munich 1979
- With Ernst Tugendhat: logical- semantic propaedeutic, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1983
- The problem of moral ought, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1984
- Publisher: proper names, documentation of a controversy, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 1985
- The animal in morality, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1990
- Aristotle, Metaphysics ( edited with an introduction ), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994
- The search for the good life. Plato's early dialogues, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996
- Issuer together with Anton Leist: Philippa Foot, The reality of good. Moral Philosophical essays, S. Fischer, Frankfurt aM 1997
- The philosophy and the question of the good life, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999
- Aristotle's " Nicomachean Ethics ", Scientific. Book Company, Darmstadt (row plant interpretations) 2002
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006 ( translation with introduction and notes )
- Texts on animal ethics, Reclam, Stuttgart 2008
- Ethics of human-animal relationship, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-465-04161-0
Awards
- 2012: Meyer- Struck Mann Prize for humanities and social science research for outstanding work in the subject area Applied Philosophy