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63Moral Contractualism and the Non-Identity ProblemZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 11 (2). 2025.Moral Contractualism provides a compelling framework for understanding what we owe to each other and seems promising as a non-consequentialist intergenerational moral theory as well. However, the non-identity problem presents a critical challenge. Specifically, the question arises as to whether future individuals can have an objection against the principles allowing an act even if the future individual’s existence is contingent on this act and their lives will be worth living. A prominent respon…Read more
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314Moralischer Kontraktualismus und das Nichtidentitätsproblem: die Grenzen nicht-komparativer LösungenZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 11 (2): 205-230. 2024.Der moralische Kontraktualismus scheint als Konzeption einer nicht-konsequentialistischen intergenerationellen Ethik sehr vielversprechend. Eine zentrale theoretische Herausforderung stellt jedoch das Nichtidentitätsproblem dar. Spezifisch ist zu klären, ob zukünftige Personen einen Einwand gegen die Prinzipien unseres Handelns haben, wenn unser Handeln negative Folgen für die Lebensqualität zukünftiger Personen hat, die Existenz der konkreten Personen aber von diesem Handeln abhängt und ihr Leb…Read more
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514Navigating NonidentityJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 29 (1): 86-106. 2024.Scanlonian contractualism has difficulties to account for our moral obligations to future generations due to the nonidentity problem. A prominent solution is to refer to the more general standpoints or types of future persons in moral deliberation. This paper critically examines the “types-of-persons approach” and identifies two alternative versions that have been conflated so far. The types-of-persons approach could claim that the relevant reasons for objection are either (a) the reasons of typ…Read more
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Bielefeld UniversityPost-doctoral Researcher
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Areas of Specialization
| Normative Ethics |
| Applied Ethics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |