Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel
Born	1954
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Graz
Doctoral advisor	Hans Wagner
Main interests	history of philosophy

Udo Thiel (born 1954) is a German philosopher and professor of history of philosophy at the University of Graz. He is known for his works on John Locke's thought.

Career

Udo Thiel studied philosophy, modern German and general linguistics in Marburg, Oxford and Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1982 under Hans Wagner. He then taught at the University of Sydney from 1985 to 1991. He taught at the Australian National University since 1992. He has had research positions at Humboldt University in Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. In 2009, Thiel was appointed as professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Graz. From 2015 to 2017 he was head of Department of Philosophy. He retired in October 2019.

Books

• Lockes Theorie der Personalen Identität, 1983
• John Locke. Mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, 1990
• John Locke: Essay über den menschlichen Verstand (ed.), 1997
• Philosophical Writings of Thomas Cooper (ed.), 2001
• The Early Modern Subject. Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

External links

• "Udo Thiel". University of Graz.