Greetings and welcome to my homepage.
I am an assistent professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. I work at the chair of ethics and moral philosophy with Jacob Rosenthal.
My work centers on foundational questions in moral philosophy at the intersection between metaethics, normative ethics, philosophical anthropology, and the history of moral philosophy. In recent years, I have been working on my habilitation project on the Subject Matter of Morality. Lately, I’ve also developed a strong interest in (neo)pragmatism, exploring both its historical roots (in figures like Hegel, Peirce, and Wittgenstein) and its current prospects.
These days, I think a lot about human social practices, the nature of moral normativity, the meaning of moral language, the gap between humans and other animals, and inferentialism. I just submitted my habilitation thesis, and so I am back to writing papers and, well, securing my academic future.
Here’s a link to my philpeople page.
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17 November, 2025: The Subject Matter of Morality (and my perspective on the business), Veranstaltungsreihe “First-Gen Philosophers”, organisiert von Jörg Löschke, Universität Stuttgart
29 January, 2026: Moral Hubris (HU Berlin, Research Colloquium Thomas Schmidt)
02 February, 2026: Doxastic Wronging and Zetetic Obligations, with Verena Wagner (HU Berlin, Research Colloquium Verena Wagner)
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10 September, 2025: Moral Hubris (GAP.12 Congress, Düsseldorf)
5 June, 2025:The Point of Morality and the Autonomy of Normative Ethics (Konstanz, The Point of Morality Conference)
21-22 Feb, 2025: Towards a Comprehensive Account of the Subject Matter of Morality (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
14 Nov, 2024: Doxastic Wronging and Zetetic Moral Duties, co-authored with Verena Wagner (Forschungskolloquium von Jochen Briesen, Universität Heidelberg)
September 24, 2024: Moral Hubris (Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster)
March 21, 2024: Worum geht’s in der Moral? (Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte, Schwäbisch Gmünd)
February 19, 2024: Reasons Pluralism and Moral Obligation (University of Tartu, Estonia, Research Colloquium)
January 25-26, 2024: Reasons Pluralism and Moral Obligation (University of Heidelberg, Workshop on Normativity)
August 23, 2023: Moral Obligations without Moral Reasons, European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (University of Vienna)
May 11, 2023: Moral Obligations without Moral Reasons, (University of Bielefeld, Research Colloquium of Benjamin Kiesewetter)
March 22, 2023: The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry (Frankfurt School, Philosophy Forum)
March 01, 2023: The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry (ETH Zurich, Practical Philosophy Colloquium)