Education Experience

Magistra Artium 2002, PhD 2006, Habilitation 2015 (University of Tübingen).

  Main Research Field

Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, ancient and modern philosophy; philosophy of nature, especially the history and philosophy of biology, metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, moral psychology, environmental ethics, philosophy of religion.

  Main Published Books

Kants Theorie der Biologie (De Gruyter, 2017)

Kant’s Theory of Biology, co-ed. (De Gruyter, 2014)

“Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God.” In: Kant and Animals, ed. by Lucy Allais and John Callanan (OUP, 2020)

“‘All Is Leaf’. Goethe’s Plant Philosophy and Poetry.” In: Philosophy of Biology Before Biology, ed. by Charles Wolfe and Cecilia Bognon-Küss (Routledge, 2019)

“Was Aristotle the ‘Father’ of the Epigenesis Doctrine?” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40.2 (2018)