Siglind
loves to read (especially outside her
immediate
field of research), to hike and bike, and to contra-dance.
She treasures friendship and always finds time for those to
whom she
feels close. The best of her friends is also her
husband, philosopher
Gerhold Becker (whom she met
during her master’s defense in philosophy
when he, then a
young assistant professor at the University of Munich,
was
her second examiner). Gerhold retired as Chair Professor
of Religion and Philosophy and Founding Director of the
Centre for
Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University
and as Chairman of the
Hong Kong government’s subcom- mittee on ethics, and, ten years later, as Regular Visiting
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Assumption
University in
Bangkok, Thailand. After many years of communting between Michigan
and South Asia, both now spend most of their time in their lovely Black
Forest home
and do their respective research from there.
