Apl. Prof. Dr. Julius Schälike

Julius Schälike is an academic staff member and adjunct professor at the Chair of Philosophy II. He studied philosophy, history of art, and modern history in München and Berlin and in 2000 received his doctorate from the FU Berlin (supervisor: Ursula Wolf). In 2009 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz.

Following a research project supportetd by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, he was a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen in the summer semester 2002. From the winter semester 2002/03 until the summer semester 2013 he was first research assistant, then senior academic staff member at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. Julius Schälike has been academic staff member at the University of Mannheim since autumn 2013 and adjunct professor since 2018. He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Bern, Konstanz, Magdeburg and Mannheim for eight semesters.

His systematic focus in research and teaching lies in practical philosophy, his historical focus is in antiquity (Platon, Aristotle) and the 18th and 19th century (Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill). At the center of his systematic interests are questions of normative ethics and meta-ethics, political philosophy, legal philosophy, applied ethics (especially business and corporate ethics), practical rationality and irrationality, moral psychology as well as freedom of will and moral responsibility.