Background
Krebs, Angelika Ursula was born on August 12, 1961 in Mannheim, Germany. Daughter of Joachim and Hilde (Nagel) Krebs.
Krebs, Angelika Ursula was born on August 12, 1961 in Mannheim, Germany. Daughter of Joachim and Hilde (Nagel) Krebs.
Angelika Krebs studied philosophy, German literature and musicology in Freiburg, Oxford, Konstanz and Berkeley. She did her Doctor of Philosophy with Friedrich Kambartel, Bernard Williams and Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt in 1993.
From 1993 to 2001 she was assistant professor in Frankfurt, writing her habilitation thesis on work, justice and love. In 2001, she was appointed to the chair for practical philosophy at the University of Basel. She was Rockefeller visiting fellow at the Center for Human Values in Princeton and Rachel Carson fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Since 2013 she has been a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In 2013 she co-founded the European Society for the Philosophical Study of Emotions together with Aaron Ben-Ze’ev (Haifa) and Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens).
She served as member of the advisory board of both the German and the Swiss Society for Philosophy.