Research Assistants

• Ethics: examples in moral philosophy, literature and ethics
• Political and social philosophy: critique/criticism, judgment, democracy, social imagination
• History of philosophy: Immanuel Kant, Montaigne, ancient philosophy
• Applied Ethics: KI Ethics
• Public philosophy, Philosophy with children

Since April 2023:
Research Assistant at the Professorship of Applied Ethics, University of Passau
2018 – 2022:
Studies in Philosophy (M.A.) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, study visit at University of Vienna
2014 – 2022:
Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2013 – 2018:
Studies in Philosophy (B.A.) and Cultural Sciences (B.A.) at University of Hildesheim, study visit at Université Paul Valéry 3 Montpellier

"Beispiele und soziale Zugehörigkeit: Wie intersubjektive Einbildungskraft die Wahl von Vorbildern einschränkt ["Examples and social belonging: How intersubjective imagination limits the choice of role models"], in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 12 (1), 2025, pp. 179-204

"Einleitung: Neue Vertrauensfragen? Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz ["Introduction: New questions of trust? Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence"], in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 11 (1), 2024, pp. 325-342 (together with Karoline Reinhardt)

"Grenzen aufopfernder Pflege. Ein Kommentar zu Hilge Landweer ["Limits of self-sacrificing care. A commentary on Hilge Landweer", in: ZEMO Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 7, 2024, pp. 281-284 (contribution to the discussion)

Conference reports:

"Tagungssplitter: Exemplarität und Einbildungskraft" [“Conference Splitter: Exemplarity and Imagination”] for the XI Conference on Practical Philosophy 2024 on praefaktisch, 4.11.2024, https://praefaktisch.de/002e/tagungssplitter-exemplaritaet-und-einbildungskraft/

"Sprachliche Brücken? Literarische Beispiele in der Ethik", Frankfurter Philosophinnen*kolloquium, SoSe 2025, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

"Nur Dystopien? Film-Beispiele in der KI-Ethik", Early Career Researcher Workshop: Political Imagination(s) - between Democracy and Digitality (organization together with Dr. Lea Watzinger), 2025, Universität Passau

“Die intersubjektive Dimension von Einbildungskraft”, XI. Conference for Practical Philosophy 2024, Passau

"Montaigne’s dealing with South American examples and its current significance", World Congress of Philosophy 2024, Rom

"France in the Mirror of the World. Montaigne‘s Essais and the philosophy of migration", PhD Colloquium Rethinking Migration – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 2024, Villa Vigoni

„The days of grading apples are over“, Examples in moral philosophical debates of the 20th century. X. Conference for Practical Philosophy 2023, Salzburg

SoSe 2025
Seminar "Ungerechtigkeit"
AG "Sustainability" der Passau Summer School for Applied Ethics 2025

SoSe 2024
AG "Future of Europe" der Passau Summer School for Applied Ethics 2025

PASSAUtonomy project (winning project in the University Competition 2024, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Wissenschaft im Dialog):

SoSe 2024: Philosophizing in the beer garden

SoSe 2024: Student project with panel discussion and exhibition

More information:
https://www.hochschulwettbewerb.net/2024/passautonomy/
https://www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/2024/passautonomy-diskussion-und-ausstellung

Since 2025:
Research Assistant in the “Divers Privat” project at the Professorship of Applied Ethics, University of Passau
04/2025 - 09/2025:
Exposé funding from the German National Academic Foundation
2024 - 2025:
Research Assistant in the project “Applied Ethics in Practice” (AIEP) at the Professorship of Applied Ethics, University of Passau
2023 - 2024:
Student Assistant at the Professorship of Applied Ethics, University of Passau
2023:
Student Assistant at the Chair of English Language and Culture, University of Passau
2020 - 2024:
Study grants from the German National Academic Foundation
2022 - 2024:
Studies in European Studies (M.A.) at the University of Passau
2020 – 2022:
Participation in the Honors Program of the University of Bonn
2018 - 2022:
Studies in Philosophy, German Studies, Educational Sciences (B.A.) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2025: "Menschen und Metaphern: Die imaginative Kraft der Übertragung“ as part of the interdisciplinary junior researcher workshop ”Political Imagination(s) - between Democracy and Digitality" organized by Dr. Lea Watzinger and Johanna Sinn (University of Passau)

2025: Panel discussion "Daring more autonomy? Autonomy between Categorical Imperative and Artificial Intelligence" of the Protestant Deanery Wiesbaden

2024: PASSAUtonomy project (winning project in the University Competition 2024, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Wissenschaft im Dialog)

SoSe 2024: Philosophizing in the beer garden

SoSe 2024: Student project with panel discussion and exhibition

SoSe 2024: School project in cooperation with GoverNet Staatswissenschaften e.V.

More information:

• https://www.hochschulwettbewerb.net/2024/passautonomy/
• https://www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/2024/passautonomy-diskussion-und-ausstellung

• Moral duties and normative reasons
• Supererogation
• Demandingness objections
• Questions of applied ethics (ethics and politics of consumption, privacy and data protection)
• Fundamental issues in ethical theorizing

since 08/2025:
Research Assistant at the Professorship of Applied Ethics, University of Passau
02/2025 – 07/2025:
Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern
02/2019 – 01/2025:
Research Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern
09/2024 – 11/2024:
Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
09/2014 – 05/2019:
Doctorate in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich
01/2018 – 06/2018:
Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton
09/2007 – 07/2014:
Studies in Philosophy, German Linguistics and Literature, and Cultural Analysis, University of Zurich and Humboldt University of Berlin

Monograph

Überforderungseinwände in der Ethik [Over-Demandingness Objections in Ethics]. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter (Reihe: Ideen & Argumente), 2022

Articles

Two Ways of Limiting Moral Demands, in: The Philosophical Quarterly 74/3, 2024, pp. 865-885

Schuldhafte Unkenntnis und moralische Überforderung in der Konsumethik [Culpable Ignorance and Moral Demandingness in Consumer Ethics], in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 77/4, 2023, pp. 543-567

Schefflers menschliche Moral [Scheffler’s Human Morality], in: Andreas Oberprantacher/ Anne Siegetsleitner (Hg.): Mensch sein – Fundament, Imperativ oder Floskel? Beiträge zum 10. Internationalen Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Innsbruck, pp. 399-410. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2017

Book Reviews

Marcel van Ackeren and Michael Kühler (eds.): The Limits of Moral Obligation: Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can, in: Grazer Philosophische Studien 95/1, 2018, pp. 148-152

Beatrix Himmelmann/Robert B. Louden (Hg.): Why Be Moral?, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 70/3, 2016, pp. 456-460

Translation

Ein Plädoyer gegen die Alltagsmoral [Against Ordinary Morality] (aus: The Limits of Morality von Shelly Kagan), in: Sebastian Muders/ Philipp Schwind (Hg.): Analytische Moralphilosophie: Grundlagentexte, pp. 27-62. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2021

Miscellaneous

How Should We Respond to Excessive Moral Demands?, in: New Work in Philosophy von Marcus Arvan und Barry Maguire, 2023

Eine Replik auf Arnd Pollmann: „Was ist ein moralisches Problem? ["What is a moral problem?], a response to Arnd Pollman, Was ist ein moralisches Problem? (Heft 3/ 2014)“, in: Information Philosophie Vol. 1/2015, 2015, pp. 42-43

“Moral Requirements, Practical Reasons, and Supererogation", 12th International Congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy: Pathways to Truth (GAP.12), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (September 10, 2025)

“Moral Requirements, Practical Reasons, and Supererogation", Berlin-Bern-Zurich Workshop Ethical Theory, University of Bern (April 10, 2025)

“Menschen in Not, moralische Hilfspflichten und Longtermism“, Xth Conference on Practical Philosophy, University of Salzburg (September 28, 2023)

“Der Rationalismus und die deliberative Signifikanz moralischer Pflichten”, Berlin-Bern-Zurich Workshop on Ethical Theory, University of Zurich (March 31, 2023)

“Die deliberative Signifikanz von moralischen Pflichten”, ZEPP Talks: Lectures on Current Ethical Topics, University of Munich (July 20, 2022)

“Die deliberative Signifikanz von moralischen Pflichten”, Institute Colloquium of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern (October 28, 2021)

“Zwei Arten von Grenzen für moralische Forderungen”, XXV Congress of the German Society for Philosophy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (September 8, 2021) [online]

“Schuldhafte Unkenntnis und moralische Überforderung in der Konsumethik”, Workshop “Culpable Ignorance”, University of Vienna (July 3, 2020) [online]

“Die Verteidigung von Überforderungseinwänden”, 10th International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy: Diversity in Philosophy and Beyond (GAP.10), University of Cologne (September 18, 2018)

“Blame, Obligation, and Supererogation – A Comment on Mill, Morality, and Malleability”, Conference “Kant and Moral Demandingness,” University of Southampton (June 8, 2018)

Podcast episode “Moral Overload,” in: Hinterfragt – The Ethics Podcast by Andreas Cassee and Anna Goppel, 2022

Blog post “Humanity as a Moral Imperative?” in: philosophie.ch – Swiss Portal for Philosophy (2016)