I am a PostDoc at the ETH in Zurich at the chair of practical philosophy. My research interests cover the philosophy of action, rationality and reasons, philosophy of law, business and environmental ethics, and metaethics.
I am interested in the following questions: Can groups such as corporations and states act autonomously or are they more like tools that we set up to serve certain purposes? Should and can we conceive of corporations as moral persons that can be held accountable for their actions, and what does this mean for our fight against climate change?
Related to these inquiries is the more general question of the nature of our re…
I am a PostDoc at the ETH in Zurich at the chair of practical philosophy. My research interests cover the philosophy of action, rationality and reasons, philosophy of law, business and environmental ethics, and metaethics.
I am interested in the following questions: Can groups such as corporations and states act autonomously or are they more like tools that we set up to serve certain purposes? Should and can we conceive of corporations as moral persons that can be held accountable for their actions, and what does this mean for our fight against climate change?
Related to these inquiries is the more general question of the nature of our reasons. Do our reasons depend on our social circumstances and roles? If they do, then how can we reach agreement with regard to tackling global, collective action problems, like man made climate change, given the underlying plurality of values and moral standpoints?
To answer this latter set of questions, the project applies Habermas’ discourse theory and recent concepts from social ontology.