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39Transformationale Führung und Werte in der Gruppe V -- ein ÜberblickStratos 1 (1): 4-18. 2023.In the modern world of work, diversity, self-fulfilment and personal responsibility are at the centre of interest as values. Moving in this direction and coping with the associated changes requires a cultural change. This, in turn, can only be achieved if leaders succeed in sensitising employees to the values they are striving for. From a theoretical point of view, the theories of “transformational leadership” already provide a suitable framework for this. However, this requires careful reflecti…Read more
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Augustinus und die revisionistische Position: Zur Rechtfertigung des TötensIn Martin Elbe (ed.), Philosophie des Militärs, Springer. 2022.
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6Strategische Kommunikation und WerteIn Michael Holenweger (ed.), Anwendungsgebiete und Grundlagen von Strategischer Kommunikation, Nomos. 2020.
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8Authentische Führung in ExtremsituationenIn Eva-Maria Kern, Gregor Richter, Johannes C. Müller & Fritz-Helge Voß (eds.), Einsatzorganisationen. Erfolgreiches Handeln in Hochrisikosituationen, Springer. 2019.
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15The Problem of Evil Leadership: Conceptual Aspects and Visualized NarrativesIn Douglas Lindsay & David Earl Woycheshin (eds.), Overcoming Leadership Challenges: International Perspectives, Canadian Defence Academy Press. 2015.
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17Leadership Responsibility and DisobedienceIn Douglas Lindsay & Dave Woycheshin (eds.), Adaptive Leadership in the Military Context: International Perspectives, Canadian Defence Academy Press. 2014.
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1Virtues for the Smallest Gang? A Contribution to the Leadership Ethics of Urban WarfareIn Dragan Stanar & Kristina Tonn (eds.), The Ethics of Urban Warfare, Brill. pp. 46-68. 2023.
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1Causation, Luck, Restraint in WarIn Patrick J. R. Mileham (ed.), Jus Post Bellum. Restraing, Stabilisation and Peace, Brill. pp. 33-47. 2020.
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1Military leadership: through dissent against moral disengagementEuroisme Occasional Papers. 2020.
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12How ethical leadership is related to authenticityLeadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1. 2020.
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Military Necessity through Peace?In The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.
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3Sound Moral Psychology behind Ethics EducationIn Thomas Elßner & Reinhold Janke (eds.), Didactics of Military Ethics. From Theory to Practice, Brill. 2016.
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5Depiction at its Limits: How Segantini’s Alpine Triptych Challenges Hyman’s Conception of DepictionKairos Journal of Philosophy and Science 11. 2014.
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89Reconsidering the Epistemology of Deductive-Inferential ValidityAbstracta 4 (1): 44-56. 2008.Until quite recently, the epistemology of logical laws has not been much discussed and neither has how one can be justified in claiming that a particular inference is valid. The transfer of warrant from premises to conclusion in modus ponens will be examined in the paper through assessing Paul Boghossian's inferentialist proposal of assuming 'blind reasoning'. It will be argued that merely being justified in inferring according to a logical law a priori is worthless unless one can also be justif…Read more
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2The Expression of Self-consciousness in Kamala Das's ''An Introduction''Consciousness, Literature, and the Art 9 (2). 2008.The philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel emphasises the importance of understanding consciousness and, even more so, self-consciousness. His lectures on aesthetics contain aesthetic theories for all forms of art (viz. architecture, painting, music or poetry), but critics use them only in significantly altered versions. The present paper attempts to give an in-depth analysis of a poem following one interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of self-consciousness. The poem analysed is not a German Romantic poem, …Read more
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601John Mikhail on Moral IntuitionsKairos. Revista de Filosofia and Ciência 7. 2013.John Mikhail's moral psychology is an interestin contribution to philosophical debates surrounding the nature of normativity and moral and legal judgement. The paper focuses on Mikhail's metaethical assumptions and how they are combined with the Chomskian framework of his moral theory. Particularly the computational processes which are supposed to generate oughts will be scrutinised. It is then argued that--apart from three other issues--Mikhail does not provide a satisfactory answer to the is-o…Read more
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26When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern MilitaryJournal of Military Ethics 13 (3): 295-297. 2014.
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39Rules and Dispositions in Language UsePalgrave-Macmillan. 2014.Human language is not arbitrary. But how is its use constrained? Are there rules or general human dispositions that govern it? Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is indeed governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to be incompatible. -/- Opening with a fresh discussion of Saul Kripke's work on rule-following and meaning, the q…Read more
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12The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict (edited book)Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework. Whilst war and peace have traditionally been viewed through the lens of philosophical enquiry, political issues and theological ideas - as well as common sense - have also influenced people's understanding of armed conflicts with regards to both the moral issues they raise and the policies and actions they require. Comprised of fourteen essays on the role and application …Read more
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14In 1982 Saul A. Kripke proposed a reconstruction of the central insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following. The reconstruction prominently featured a sceptical challenge which soon was recognised as a new and very radical form of scepticism. According to the challenge there is no fact of the matter which constitutes meaning. As there is no such fact, the first-person authority people intuitively seem to have concerning what they mean is also baseless. In response to the sceptic,…Read more
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10Chomsky’s Methodological Naturalism and the Mereological FallacyIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Ontos. pp. 113-126. 2011.Ever since the publication of his monograph Cartesian Linguistics(1966), Noam Chomsky has been eager to show that his vision of psychology in general and theoretical linguistics in particular is conceptually sound. The claim has been opposed from various sides, including perspicuous objections by Baker and Hacker (1984: Chapters 8 and 9) and Wright (1989). Chomsky and his followers have subsequently concentrated their efforts on defending Chomskian met…Read more
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ETH ZurichLecturer
Aarau, AG, Switzerland
Areas of Specialization
Military Ethics |
Ethical Leadership |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Language |
Applied Ethics |