Dr. Jonas Vandieken

Personal information

Jonas Vandieken has been a Research Associate (postdoc) at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics at LMU Munich since February 2019. His research specialisms are in ethics, meta-ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. At the moment, he is researching the relational content of morality and the resulting implications for applied ethics and political philosophy.

From September to December 2018, Jonas was a Teaching Fellow at University College London. He also obtained his PhD there in June 2018. From September to December 2016, Jonas was a visiting researcher at Yale University. Previously, he completed an MA in Philosophy at Boston University (2011 - 2013) and a BA in History and Philosophy at the University of Bonn. (2007 - 2011).

Specialisms

Areas of specialization

• Ethics
• Meta-ethics
• Political philosophy

Areas of competence

• History of ethics and practical philosophy
• Philosophy of law
• Moral psychology
• Social epistemology

Selected publications

• Moral friends? The idea of the moral relationship. In: European Journal of Philosophy 31(4): 1073-1090 (2023).
• Review of R. Jay Wallace’s The Moral Nexus. In: Journal of Moral Philosophy 18(1): 91-94 (2021).
• Bipolar Obligations, Recognition Respect, and Second-Personal Morality. In: Journal of Ethics 23(3): 291-315 (2019).

Selected talks

• “Contractualism, Relational Morality, and the Puzzle of Directed Obligation” - reply to R. Jay Wallace (UC Berkeley) - Symposium on R. Jay Wallace's book The Moral Nexus (PUP 2019), Tilburg University, June 2019
• “Non-Discretionary Directed Obligations, Moral Trustees, and the Order of Claims”
  LMU Munich, June 2019
  Einstein Early Career Conference Berlin, December 2018
• "Directed Obligations and Moral Theory”
  Invited talk at the University of Southampton, July 2018
• “Bipolar Recognition Respect and Second-Personal Morality”
  Invited talk at the University of Bonn, September 2017
• “Obligation, Bipolarity, and Culpability”- Reply to Stephen Darwall (Yale)
  Workshop with Stephen Darwall, University College London, June 2017
• “Reasonable Partiality and What We Owe to Each Other – The role of Empathy in Moral Contractualism”
  Oxford University, November 2015
• “Moral Friends? A Response to Scheffler and Wallace”
  University College London, August 2015
  Minho University, June 2015
• “Kant on the Freedom of Citizens“ – Reply to Luke Davies (Oxford)
  The London Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, University College London, November 2014
• “Morality and Relationship-Dependence”
  University College London, September 2014
• “Minimalism, Moral Realism and Persons” – Reply to Yishai Cohen (Syracuse University)
  Kent State University, March 2012