In my research, I primarily focus on normative ethics and social ontology, especially on how to accommodate our considered moral judgments about various types of groups within ethical theory. I focus on questions such as whether groups can be moral agents, whether they can have moral duties; and whether they can be morally responsible in their own right. More broadly, I am further interested in business ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of action, and social and political philosophy.
As of 2022, I work as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. I am currently a Research Associate (2022-2025) at t…
In my research, I primarily focus on normative ethics and social ontology, especially on how to accommodate our considered moral judgments about various types of groups within ethical theory. I focus on questions such as whether groups can be moral agents, whether they can have moral duties; and whether they can be morally responsible in their own right. More broadly, I am further interested in business ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of action, and social and political philosophy.
As of 2022, I work as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. I am currently a Research Associate (2022-2025) at the African Centre for Epistemology & Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. And I am an editor at Journal of Social Ontology. Before my current position, I worked as a post-doc in the ERC Project 'The Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency' from 2021 to 2022 at the University of Vienna. In 2021, I completed my PhD in Philosophy with honors at the University of Vienna. My supervisor was Prof. Hans Bernhard Schmid, and my review committee consisted of Prof. Deborah Tollefsen and Prof. Gunnar Björnsson. Before this, I did my Bachelor and Research Master in Philosophy at the University of Groningen.
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