Valentin Beck

I am a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin (2012-). I was previously a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, a lecturer and phd candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt (2009-12) and at the University of Bremen (2008-9) and a visiting phd student at the ANU in Canberra (2011). My research is in social, political and moral philosophy and economic ethics. In my monograph, Eine Theorie der globalen Verantwortung [A Theory of Global Responsibility; Suhrkamp 2016], I develop a human rights based approach to the moral and political responsibilities of individuals and collectives in the global realm, especially as regards global poverty. I have published on issues in global justice theory, the philosophy of poverty; climate ethics and climate justice; and fair trade, consumer ethics and the ethics of boycotting. For a comprehensive list of taught courses and my German language biography including a list of publications, see: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institut/mitarbeiter/wimi/beck/index.html