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Ulla Wessels was born in 1965 in Münster.
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Career
She is a Professor of Practical Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. She has researched and taught in Leipzig and Göttingen and at the University of California in Berkeley and at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Wessels" research interests include consequentialism, welfarism, utilitarianism, supererogation, moral psychology and bioethics. In 2003, Wessels" book Die gute Samariterin: Zur Struktur der Supererogation received the Wolfgang Stegmüller-Prize from Die Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (Society for Analytic Philosophy).
