Wibren van der Burg,Theo van Willigenburg's Reflective Equilibrium: Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger PDF

By Wibren van der Burg,Theo van Willigenburg

Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht college on account that 1977, either on the college of Theology and on the school of Philosophy. seeing that 1985, he has additionally been educating on the college of Veterinary drugs. earlier than he got here to Utrecht, he had labored at Uppsala college for a few years. He has consistently stayed in shut touch together with his Swedish colleagues, and two times he was once a vacationing professor at Uppsala college. along with his eastern-German heritage, his roots in part in Russia, his thesis at the Italian thinker Gramsci and his curiosity in Anglo-American analytical philosophy he has a wide overseas orientation. it truly is no ask yourself, accordingly, that he constantly felt a lot at domestic within the Societas Ethica, the ecu Society for learn in Ethics, which he served as its president from 1991 to 1995. Robert Heeger is basically a instructor and excels as a dialogue associate. along with his sharp analytical brain and his nice highbrow interest he not just exposes severely the vulnerable. issues in an issue, yet frequently additionally brings up inventive feedback to enhance it. therefore he has tremendously encouraged his many scholars (he co-supervised fourteen doctoral theses) and his colleagues, either within the Netherlands and in a foreign country. in addition, he was once one of many first ethical philosophers within the Netherlands, or even in Europe, to be keen on environmental ethics and in animal and veterinary ethics.

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