Beate Roessler is professor of ethics and its history at the University of Amsterdam. Roessler teaches courses in ethics and social philosophy and a general course on Philosophy and Literature for students of the humanities. Currently, she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and chair of the Capacity group of Philosophy and Public Affairs. From 2003-2010 she was Socrates-Professor for the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University. Before, she taught philosophy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Bremen, Germany.
