Education
M. A. in Philosophy, 1981 – 1986, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main. Advisor: J. Habermas
Dr. Phil. 1991, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main, Advisor: J. Habermas
Graduate Training at the Goethe Universität, including courses in social and political philosophy, philosophy of language, modern philosophy, philosophy of art & music, history of philosophy.
Employment
2014 – present: Regular annual Guest-Professor, Department of Philosophy, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2008 – present: Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2007: Received Offer for Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria (declined)
2007 – 2015: Department Chair, Department of Philosophy and Program in Religious Studies, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2005 – 2007: Graduate Studies Coordinator, “M.A. in Practical Philosophy & Applied Ethics,” Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2004, 2006, 2010: Annual Guest-Professor, Department of Philosophy, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2003 May – June: Visiting Professor, Czech Academy of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
2000-2001: Faculty Fellow, Office for Faculty Enhancement, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2000 Summer: Visiting Scholar as NEH Fellow, University of Arizona
1999: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
1997 Summer: Visiting Scholar as NEH Fellow, University of Boston
1997: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of History and Philosophy, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
1997: Nomination for the Canada Research Chair, Department of Philosophy, Queens University, Canada
1994: Assistant Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1991: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1989-1990: International Research Fellow, National fellowship Foundation, as Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, The New School for Social Research, and at the University of California, Berkeley
1987-1991: Dissertation Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (National Fellowship Foundation)
1986-1987: Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: History and Discourse of the Sciences of Education, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
