Ursula Renz has been Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz since February 2020 and is head of the History of Philosophy Department and the Alexius Meinong Institute.
Her research focuses historically on early modern philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shaftesbury), Kant, German Neo-Kantianism (Hermann Cohen) and late 19th and early 20th century philosophy (Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger), the history of analytic philosophy. Thematically, she works on questions of metaphysics (identity, transcendentals, the relationship between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, the concept of being and life), epistemology (testimonies of others, epistemic virtues), questions concerning the relationship between the concept of self, self-knowledge and self-knowledge, philosophy of emotions, the concept of cultural identity.
Ursula Renz has been Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz since February 2020 and is head of the History of Philosophy Department and the Alexius Meinong Institute.
Her research focuses historically on early modern philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shaftesbury), Kant, German Neo-Kantianism (Hermann Cohen) and late 19th and early 20th century philosophy (Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger), the history of analytic philosophy. Thematically, she works on questions of metaphysics (identity, transcendentals, the relationship between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, the concept of being and life), epistemology (testimonies of others, epistemic virtues), questions concerning the relationship between the concept of self, self-knowledge and self-knowledge, philosophy of emotions, the concept of cultural identity.
Habilitation, Philosophy, University of Zurich
PhD (summa cum laude), Philosophy, University of Zurich
ursula.renz@uni-graz.at