Curriculum Vitae
Professorships
| 1988-1993 | Professor of Philosophy at Otto Friedrich University Bamberg |
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| 1993-1998 | Professor of Philosophy at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg |
| 1998-2012 | Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Visiting Professorships
| 1987 | at Erlangen-Nuremberg University |
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| 1987-1988 | at Free University Berlin |
| 1992-1993 | at Humboldt University Berlin |
| 1994-1995 | at Stanford University |
| 1998 | at Emory University |
| 2003 | at the Humboldt Study Center of the University of Ulm |
| 2017 | at Fudan University, Shanghai |
Fellowships
| 1985-1987 | Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna |
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| 1996 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2000-2001 | Stanford Humanities Center |
| 2003 | Villa Vigoni, Italy |
Awards
| 1992 | Max-Planck Research Prize |
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| 2016 | Premio Internazionale d'Estetica |
Professional Activities
| Editor-in-chief of The Journal of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philosophy, Philosophical Peripeteias" | |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics | |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of Contemporary Aesthetics |
Wolfgang Welsch, Prof. Dr. phil., born 1946, studied philosophy, art history, psychology and archeology at Munich and Würzburg universities; Ph. D. 1974, Habilitation 1982, retired since April 2012.
In his most recent publications (2011-12) he has developed a strictly evolutionary conception of the human, including both biological and cultural evolution.
His research areas are anthropology, epistemology and ontology, philosophical aesthetics and the theory of art, cultural philosophy, contemporary philosophy; his philosophical heroes are Heraclitus, Aristotle and Hegel.