Weyma Lübbe

Weyma Lübbe is Chairwoman, Department of Philosophy, Leipzig University. Since 1999 at the University of Leipzig, Lübbe’s work encompasses Philosophy of law (theory on right and standard, selected problems of the punishing and of the constitutional law, economic analysis of the right); Social philosophy and political philosophy (theory of social acting, institution theory, political legitimacy, theory of the public opinion); Ethics (Consequentialism and its critics), responsibility. Also justice of distribution - Applied ethics (ethics of allocations, medicine and bio ethics, environmental ethics, risk adjustment, science ethics); Theory and history of the social sciences (general sociological theory, max of webers and its time, causality and probability in the social sciences in the 19th Century).