PD Dr. Anna Wehofsits
Assistant Professor
Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics
Office address:
Schellingstraße 10 / 2. Stock
Room J209
80799 München
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Personal information
Anna is Assistant Professor (akademische Rätin) at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics. During the winter semester 2020/2021 she was Interim Professor for Philosophical Anthropology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Before joining the LMU, she was a Research Associate at the Free University of Berlin. Beyond academia, she has worked for the NGO Incentives for Global Health, for the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, and as a freelance translator. She studied at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Cambridge, and Yale University.
Research interests
Anna's research focuses on ethics, moral psychology, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of mind, and the history of practical philosophy. Systematically, she is particularly interested in the motives and functions of irrational thought and action. Her current research interests include moral psychological aspects of self-deception and related phenomena of motivated cognition, the moral and epistemic relevance of emotions, autonomy and moral integrity in non-ideal circumstances, and ethical and political issues in the context of disability. Historically, she works primarily on Kant's practical philosophy and on elaborations of and critical responses to Kantian ideas up to the present.
Selected publications
See publications page on Anna's personal website.