Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt  Austria  where she teaches classes in both Theoretical Philosophy (epistemology  metaphysics and philosophy) and Early Modern Philosophy She has published widely on Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes  Hobbes  Spinoza  Shaftesbury)  Kant  the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism (Cohen  Natorp  Cassirer)  as well as on the emotions  self-knowledge  and the problem of epistemic trust