Bernard N. Schumacher PhD

PD Dr. Bernard N. Schumacher is a lecturer at the University of Friborg and Head of Research and Education at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethics and Human Rights. PhD thesis (1994) and habilitation thesis (2000) in philosophy. He has been visiting professor at University of Chicago (Illinois, USA), Providence College (Rhode Island, USA), Universität Wien, University of Lugano and Toulouse. He was Visiting Scholar in Tübingen, Notre Dame University (Indiana, USA), CUA (Washington DC, USA), Madrid and Buenos Aires with, among others, the support of Scholarships from the Swiss National Research Fund and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. His fields of teaching and research are ethics and anthropological philosophy.