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Beate Roessler is professor of ethics and its history at the University of Amsterdam. Roessler teaches courses in ethics and social philosophy and a general course on Philosophy and Literature for students of the humanities. Currently, she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and chair of the Capacity group of Philosophy and Public Affairs. From 2003-2010 she was Socrates-Professor for the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University. Before, she taught philosophy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Bremen, Germany.  

Roessler studied philosophy at Tuebingen, London, Oxford, and Berlin. She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the Free University Berlin and her Habilitation in 2001 at the University of Bremen. In 2003/2004 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin. In November (2011) she was a fellow at the  Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Value and Ethics, Sydney.  Roessler is a founding member and member of the board of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR). Since october 2006 she is program director of the research program Philosophy and Public Affairs (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, ASCA). Since 2009, she has been co-editor of the European Journal of Philosophy.

Roessler's research fields include: justice and equality, human rights, ethics and the good life, theories of freedom and autonomy, theories of privacy, moral normativity and feminist theories. Her current research is concerned with theoretical and practical problems in autonomy.

Links: 

http://appr.uva.nl/en

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0378

Books (edited)

1. Handbuch der politischen Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie , herausgegeben mit Stefan Gosepath und Wilfried Hinsch, Berlin, de Gruyter 2008
2. Von Person zu Person. Zur Moralität persönlicher Beziehungen, herausgegeben mit Axel Honneth, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 2008
3. Privacies. Philosophical Evaluations, Stanford University Press, 2004
4. Autonomy. Problems and Limits (Special Issue of the Philosophical Explorations), Vol V, Nr. 3 October 2002
5. Quotierung und Gerechtigkeit. Eine moralphilosophische Kontroverse , Frankfurt: Campus 1993 

Books (monographs)

1. Der Wert des Privaten, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001; English translation: The Value of Privacy , Polity Press 2005
2. Die Theorie des Verstehens in Sprachanalyse und Hermeneutik. Untersuchungen am Beispiel M. Dummetts und F.D.E. Schleiermachers, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1990 

Selected Articles

1. "Privacy and Social Interaction", co-authored with Dorota Mokrosinska, in Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming)
2. "Politische und soziale Freiheit", in: Freiheit in Theologie und Philosophie, hg. Martin Laube, Goettingen 2013 (forthcoming)
3. "Autonomie und eigene Gruende", in: M. Betzler e.a., eds., Eigene Gruende, Muenchen 2012
4. "Soziale Dimensionen des Privaten" (unter Mitarbeit von Dorota Mokrosinska), in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift,  2012
5. "Autonomie, Glueck und der Sinn des Lebens",  in: K. Liessmann, ed., Die Jagd nach dem Glueck, Wien 2012, 
6. "Meaningful Work: Arguments from Autonomy", in: Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 71-93, 2012 
7. "Authenticity of Cultures and of Persons", in: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 38, (4-5), 445-455, 2012
8. "Autonomie", in:  Handbuch Angewandte Ethik , hg. v. R. Stoecker, C. Neuhäuser, M.-L. Raters, Stuttgart: Metzler 2012
9.  "Over autonomie en rechtvaardigheid", Oratie UvA, Vossiuspers 2010
10.  "Privatheit und Autonomie. Zum individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Wert des Privaten", in: Die Grenzen des Privaten , hg. v. S. Seubert & P. Niessen, Baden-Baden 2010
11.  "Autonomie und Ambivalenz", in: Sozialphilosophie und Kritik , hg. v. R.Forst e.a., Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 2009
12.  "Labor, Recognition, Emancipation", in: Power and Recognition. Articles on the Theory of Recognition, ed. by B.van den Brink & D. Owen, Cambridge UP 2007
13.  "Menschenrechte und Autonomie", in: Nico Scarano, Mauricio Suárez (Hg.), Ernst Tugendhats Ethik. Einwände und Erwiderungen, München: Beck 2006
14. "New Ways of Thinking about Privacy", in: Anne Phillips, Bonnie Honig and John Dryzek (eds), Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford UP 2006
15.  "Arbeit und Anerkennung", in: Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie Band 53 2005 Heft 3
16.  "Problems with Autonomy", in: Hypatia Vol 17, 4, 2002
17.  "John Rawls: 30 Jahre Theorie der Gerechtigkeit", Einleitung in: Schwerpunkt John Rawls, hg. B. Roessler, Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie 6 2002
18.  "Feminism in Philosophy", review in: European Journal of Philosophy , August 2001
19.   "Unglück und Unrecht. Grenzen derGerechtigkeit im liberalen Rechtsstaat", in: H. Muenkler e.a. (Hgg.),Konzeptionen der Gerechtigkeit , Baden Baden: Nomos 1999
20.  "Feministische Theorien der Politik", in: K. v. Beyme & C. Offe (Hg.), Politische Theorien in der Aera der Transformation , Opladen 1996
21.  "Gültigkeit und Vielfalt. Einige Bemerkungen zum Verstehen philosophischer Texte", in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 6 1994
22.   "Von den semantischen Grenzen der Welt", in: Philosophische Rundschau 1 1994 (zu M. Dummett, The Logical Basis of Metaphysics und Frege and Other Philosophers)
23.   "Liberale Rechte und Kommunitaristische Sehnsucht", in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 6 1993
24.   "Der ungleiche Wert der Freiheit", in: Analyse und Kritik 14 1992

Positions/Job titles:

2012: Head of the Department of Philosophy 

2009: Chair of Ethics and its History, Depart­ment of Philosophy, University of Amster­­dam; head of the capaciteitsgroep Philosophy and Public Affairs.

2004 - 2010: Socrates-Professor for Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Hu­ma­nism at the University of Leiden.

1997 - 2009: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Depart­ment of Philosophy, University of Amster­­dam.

1994 - 1997: Assistant Professor ("Hochschulassistentin") of Political Theory and the History of Ideas, Department of Political Science, University of Bremen.  

Fellowships:

2011: Fellow at the Research Center for Agency, Value and Ethics Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

2003 – 2004: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) Berlin 

1998: Visiting Fellow at the Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna

Academic service

2012- currently: Member of the Commissie Ethiek of the Facuty of Humanities, UvA

2011- currently: Member of the Board of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research 

2010- currently: Member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam

2010- currently: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vienna 

2009- currently: Member of the Board of the National Research School in Ethics, The Netherlands

2006- currently: Member of the Board of the Vereniging van Ethici in Nederland 

2000- currently: Member of the Board of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Ana­­lysis, (ASCA)

2012-2013: Member of the Wetenschappelijk Adviescollege of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 

2011- 2013: Member of the Jury for the Spinozalens  

2003, 2005, 2009: Member of an evaluation committee of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in 

References and reports for: 

Political Studies, Bioethics, British Journal of Sociology, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophical Explorations, Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie, Studies in Social Justice, Hypatia, Journal of Political Philosophy, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Springer Verlag, Suhrkamp Verlag, Verlag de Gruyter and Oxford University Press 

Editorial Boards:

2009- currently: Member of the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Philosophy  

2000-2009: Member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal Philosophical Explorations

NWO-funded projects

Social Dimensions of Privacy (2009-2013)

Socializing Autonomy (2007-2013)

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