Prof. Dr. Herlinde Pauer-Studer

Zur Person

I am a Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics, Prof. Monika Betzler (November 2023–July 2024).

Until September 2023, I was Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. I am currently Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.

From 2010 to 2015 I was Principal Investigator (PI) of the ERC Advanced Research Grant “Distortions of Normativity” at the University of Vienna. And from 2018 to 2023 I was PI of the ERC Advanced Research Grant “The Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency” at the University of Vienna.

During my stay at LMU Munich, I will be working on issues of relational morality. I am particularly interested in the connections between a first-person standpoint of morality, as paradigmatically given in Kant’s ethics, and a relational reading of Kant’s practical philosophy.

Areas of competence

Ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

1. Justifying Injustice. Legal Theory in Nazi Germany. Cambridge University Press 2020.
2. Co-authored with J. David Velleman, “Weil ich nun mal ein Gerechtigkeitsfanatiker bin”. Der Fall des SS-Richters Konrad Morgen. Suhrkamp 2017; engl.: Konrad Morgen. The Conscience of a Nazi Judge. PalgraveMacmillan 2015.
3. Symposium on Justifying Injustice. Legal Theory in Nazi Germany (CUP 2020): Responses to Critics (Jens Meierhenrich, Sofie Møller, Lars Vinx). In: Jurisprudence 14, 2. 2023, 291-302 (Open Access).
4. A Kantian Reading of ‘Good’ and ‘Good For’: Some Reflections on Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen’s Fitting Attitude Analysis of Value. In: Value, Morality and Social Reality, ed. by Andrés G. Garcia, Mattias Gunnemyr and Jakob Werkmeister, Lund University (Open Access).
5. Complicity and Conditions of Agency. In: Journal of Applied Philosophy 35, 4, 2018, 643-660.
6. Korsgaard’s Constitutivism and the Possibility of Bad Action. In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21, 1, 2018, 37-56.
7. “A Community of Rational Beings”. Kant’s Realm of Ends and the Distinction between Internal and External Freedom. In: Kant-Studien 107, 1, 2016, 125-159.