Dr. Nora Kreft
Personal information
Nora Kreft studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College) and at King’s College London. As a scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, she wrote her PhD dissertation on the Philosophy of Love at the interdisciplinary Max-Weber-Institute for Advanced Studies in Erfurt and in Graz. She was Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the University of Bern (pre-doc), the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz (pre-doc) and the Humboldt-University in Berlin (post-doc). In 2021 she accepted a Senior Lecturer position in Philosophy (tenured) at the University of Winchester. In 2025 she moved to the LMU as Akademische Rätin in Philosophie.
Research interests
She works in moral psychology, normative ethics and in Ancient Philosophy, with a special focus on intimate, interpersonal relationships (love, friendship, parent-child relationships). Currently, she is mainly working on a project on autonomy and neurodiversity.
She also writes for a broader audience, for instance in her book on the philosophy of love: Was ist Liebe, Sokrates? (Piper, 2019 / 20 / 21, transl. into 7 languages)
Selected publications
- ‚Emotionen und Gründe – Ein Kommentar zu
Liebe und Bedeutsamkeit‘, in Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 2024 - ‘Irreplaceability and the Desire Account of Love‘, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2022
- ‚Warum brauchen Kinder Liebe? Eine platonische Antwort’, in Al-Taher, Jansche und Martena (eds.), Was Liebe vermag – Philosophische Liebesdiskurse in der Antike, J. B. Metzler, 2022
- ‘Love and our moral relation with others‘, in Fedock, Kühler und Rosenhagen (eds.), Love, Autonomy, and Justice, Routledge, 2020
- ‘Aristotle on Friendship and Being Human’, in Keil und Kreft (eds.), Aristotle’s Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- Aristotle’s Anthropology, ed. together with Geert Keil, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- ‘Love and Autonomy’, in Grau und Smuts (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love, Oxford University Press, 2018 (online) / 2024 (in print)