Dr. Korbinian Rüger

Research Associate

Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics

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Schellingstraße 10, 2. OG

Room J208

80799 München

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Personal information

I have been a Research Associate at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics at LMU since 1 October 2020. My research specialisms are in normative ethics and political philosophy. At the moment, I am primarily working on questions of population ethics and distributive justice.

In September 2020, I completed my DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and I was previously at Princeton University as a visiting researcher from November 2019 to April 2020. I studied Philosophy and Economics (BA) at the University of Bayreuth and Philosophy (MSc) at the London School of Economics.

Research interests

Areas of specialization

Normative ethics
Political philosophy

Areas of competence

Applied ethics
Metaethics
Decision theory
Social choice theory

Selected publications

Aggregation with Constraints. In: Utilitas, online first, 2020.
On Ex Ante Contractualism. In: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (3), 2018.

Selected talks

"Pluralist Population Ethics and the Obligation to Create People" (Society for Applied Philosophy, Cardiff, 2019)
"Aggregation and Equality" (Formal Ethics Conference, Ghent, 2019)
"Aggregation with Constraints" (CEPPA Graduate Conference, St. Andrews, 2018)
"Limited Aggregation, Contractualism and Risk" (European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Munich, 2017)
"The Limits of Ex Ante Contractualism" (SOPhIA Graduate Conference, Salzburg, 2017)
"Nonaggregative Distributive Ethics and the Problem of Iteration" (Ockham Society, Oxford, 2016)