Research Associate, Faculty Women's Representative, Academic Director (PPW)
Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics, PPW
Office hours:
Mondays 2:30 - 5 p.m.
Thursdays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Gloria Mähringer works at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics and serves as academic director for the Master program “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics” (PPW). She works on questions of normative theory, especially at the intersection of social and political philosophy. Her teaching also covers a variety of topics in applied ethics. Before joining LMU in the fall of 2021, Gloria Mähringer received her PhD in practical philosophy at Lund University in Sweden, where she also served as chair of the Philosophical Society. She graduated with a Master in Philosophy from the University of Vienna.
The focus of Gloria Mähringer’s research is on the phenomenon of practical normativity, which she approaches from different angles and with different methodologies. Besides discussing (applied) ethical questions, she poses the question of what it means for our theories and beliefs that normativity is also a socially developed and psychological phenomenon.
In her dissertation, Gloria Mähringer scrutinizes metaethical theories in light of empirical insights and defends a social ontology of practical reasons. Building on this work, she is now working on a project investigating epistemic injustices in the availability of practical reasons and possibilities to overcome the resulting impairments in self-knowledge and agency.
Another project deals with a criticism of political liberalism and its shortcomings in fully respecting strongly pro-social life choices. A long-term goal of the research is to contribute to an understanding of society as a political community.
Finally, Gloria Mähringer is grappling with the fundamental question of whether academic discourse is in a position to formulate normative critique with legitimate authority.