Metaethics, Normative Ethics

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Language

• 04/2023 – 09/2023 Vertretungsprofessur (Substitute Professorship), University of Trier, Chair of Practical Philosophy
• 02/2019 – 03/2019 Akademischer Rat a.Z (≈Assistant Professor), University of Konstanz, Chair of the Foundations of Ethics and Moral Philosophy
• 10/2016 – 01/2019 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (PostDoc), University of Konstanz, Chair of the Foundations of Ethics and Moral Philosophy
• 09/2012 – 04/2016 Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Zurich, Dissertation: Oughtness: How Come We Ought to Do Things?
• 10/2014 – 12/2014 Recognised Student, University of Oxford, Merton College
• 09/2009 – 04/2012 M.A. Philosophy, University of Konstanz
• 09/2010 – 05/2011 Visiting Student, University of Amherst, Massachusetts
• 10/2006 – 08/2009 B.A. Philosophy, Minor: German Literature, University of Konstanz

Monographs

• The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

Journal Articles

• „Still a Misty Mountain: Assessing Parfit’s Non-Realist Cognitivism”; in: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Vol. 2 (2), 2019.
• „Der Metaethische Konativismus: Versuch einer Neubelebung”; in: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Vol. 1 (1), 2018.
• „On Promoting the Dead Certain. A Reply to Behrends, DiPaolo, and Sharadin”; in: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 11 (3), 2017.
• „Actual Guidance is Enough: On Sharadin’s and Van Someren Greve’s Discussion of Deontic Evaluation”. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol 24 (1). 2023
• Forthcoming: „Perspective Lost? Nonnaturalism and the Argument from Ethical Phenomenology”; Dialectica.

Currently Under Review

• An article about Kant’s proof of freedom in the Critique of Practical Reason
• An article on the indispensability of the doing/allowing distinction for the endeavor of building a stable moral community

Invited

• 5. “The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry”; Philosophy Forum, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (22/03/2023).
• 4. “The Subject Matter Problem, or: What is Normative Ethics About?”; Fachbereichskolloquium, Konstanz (12/11/2020).
• 3. “Perspective Lost:AProblem for Ethical Nonnaturalism”; Fachbereichskolloquium, Saarbrücken (22/01/2020).
• 2. “Perspective Lost: A Problem for Ethical Nonnaturalism”; University of California, Davis (04/10/2019).
• 1. “Practical Deliberation and the Anthropological Case for Source-Internalism about Practical Reasons”; Fachbereichskolloquium, Mannheim (10/04/2018).

Others

• 10. “A Transcendental Argument for the Moral Asymmetry Between Doing and Allowing”; ELP Kolloquium, Konstanz (02/12/2021).
• 9. “Meta-Ethical Mountaineering: The Surprisingly Easy Ascent to Parfit’s Base Camp”; Konstanz-Zürich Kolloquium (26/05/2018).
• 8. “Practical Deliberation and the Anthropological Case for Source-Internalism about Practical Reasons”; DG Phil Kongress, Berlin (18/09/2017).
• 7. “A New Anthropological Argument for Humeanism about Practical Reasons”; ELP Kolloquium, Konstanz (01/12/2016).
• 6. “Ein neues, anthropologisches Argument für Pro-Einstellungen als Quellen der Normativität”; 15. Workshop Ethik, Schmitten-Arnoldshain (15/03/2015).
• 5. “What is Promoting a Desire? Some Humean Considerations”; GAP 09, Osnabrück (16/09/2015).
• 4. “Explaining Oughtness”; Konstanz-Zürich Kolloquium (17/01/2014).
• 3. “Soll ich ein Wal werden und davon schwimmen? Gutsein und Gründe”; 13. Workshop Ethik, Schmitten- Arnoldshain (20/03/2014).
• 2. “‘From Thought to Action’: Commentary on Dancy”; Workshop: Moral Particularism (with Jonathan Dancy), Zurich (14/07/2013).
• 1. “Practical Reasoning and the Normative (In-)Significance of Desires”; Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (13/09/2013).