History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Ursula Renz, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria)

The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Ursula Renz, a professor of Philosophy at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. Dr.  Renz teaches classes in the history of philosophy (with an emphasis on early modern philosophy to Kant) and on themes in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology. Her major research focuses on early modern philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shaftesbury), Kant, the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism (Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer), and the history of analytic philosophy, as well as on the emotions, self-knowledge, and the nature of metaphysics and its relation to epistemology. She chairs the section of the History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, and also serves as chair of the Alexius-Meinong-Institute and leader of the FWF-project “Spinoza and the Concept of the Human Life Form.”

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About the History of Philosophy Group

One of six departmental Research Interest Groups, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group, which focuses on the period, roughly, from Descartes to Kant.