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Stefan Gosepath is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Free University Berlin (Germany) and associated at the Departments of Politics there. He is co-director of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice: Applied and Global" (together with Rainer Forst). He is also Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence ”The Contestation of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS); Member of the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’, and Participating Researcher in the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”. Before coming to Berlin he was professor of International Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, in the Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”. Previously he has been a professor at the universities of Bremen, Giessen, Potsdam, Vienna. He was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Columbia University (twice) and New York University.

Gosepath is the author of two monographs: Aufgeklärtes Eigeninteresse. Eine Theorie theoretischer und praktischer Rationalität (“Enlightened Self-Interest: A Theory of Theoretical and Practical Rationality”, Suhrkamp 1992); Gleiche Gerechtigkeit. Grundlagen eines liberalen Egalitarismus (“Equal Justice: Foundations of a Liberal Egalitarianism”, Suhrkamp 2004). He co-authored Einführung in die politische Philosophie (“Introduction to Political Philosophy”), Reclam 2013. In addition he is editor of Motive, Gründe, Zwecke. Theorien praktischer Rationalität (“Motives, Reasons, Purposes“, Fischer 1999) and co-editor of Philosophie der Menschenrechte (“Philosophy of Human Rights”, Suhrkamp 1998), Weltrepublik. Demokratie und Globalisierung (“World Republic: Democracy and Globalisation”, Beck 2002), Handbuch der Politischen Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie (HPPS) (“Companion to Political and Social Philosophy”, de Gruyter 2008), Philosophie der Moral (“Philosophy of Morality”, Suhrkamp 2009) and ... dass es ein Ende mit mir haben muss [… that I may know how frail I am], Münster: Mentis 2016. In addition he has published extensively in the areas of practical reason and normativity, justice and equality, human rights and global justice, and on morality. He was also Book Reviews Editor for the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie from 1998-2018.