Anselm Mueller

Anselm Mueller
Chicago Moral Philosophy Seminar Visiting Professor
Stuart Hall, Room 202-A
University of Fribourg PhD (1966)

A student of Elizabeth Anscombe and Anthony Kenny at Oxford in the early sixties, Professor Müller has taught philosophy at Oxford University, Australian National University, University of Trier, University of Luxemborg, and Keimyung University.  He has written many books and articles in the following areas: ethics, rationality, action theory, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy (especially Aristotle and Wittgenstein). He has been a regular Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy since 2011. A conference on his work was held here on campus in that year: "Virtue, Action, and Reason: A Conference in Honor of Anselm Müller."

Selected Publications

Was taugt die Tugend? Elemente einer Ethik des guten Lebens. Japanese edition (transl. Hiroshi Goto / Mitsugu Ochi). Kyoto: Koyoshobo 2017.

Produktion oder Praxis? Philosophie des Handelns. Heusenstamm: Ontos 2008. 

"Laßt und Menschen machen!" Ansprüche der Gentechnik – Einspruch der Vernunft. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2004.

Was taugt die Tugend? Elemente einer Ethik des guten Lebens. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1998.

Tötung auf Verlangen Wohltat oder Untat? Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1997.

Demokratie: Illusionen und Chancen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1996 (in cooperation with C. Friedrich).

Ende der Moral? Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1995 (in cooperation with W. Greve, Y.‐Y. Han and K. Rothermund).

Praktisches Folgern und Selbstgestaltung nach Aristoteles. Freiburg: Alber 1982 (habilitationsschrift).

Ontologie in Wittgensteins Tractatus. Bonn: Bouvier 1967 (doctoral dissertation).

For full list of Anselm Mueller's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.