Teaching

Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics (Prof. Dr. Monika Betzler)

Teaching at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics

The Chair's current and previous events can be found on LSF

The Chair also heads the Master's program "Philosophy, Politics, and Economics" (PPW).

Doctoral study at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Ethics

If you are interested in a doctorate on a topic relevant to the chair, please send the following documents (in English) as one PDF document to Office.Betzler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de: cover letter, CV, research proposal (approx. 10 pages), Master's thesis and an essay (e.g. a term paper, max. 8000 words). A separate letter of recommendation should be sent to the same address. We will then get in touch with you.

Advanced Seminar: Current Themes in Practical Philosophy

Tuesdays, 4 to 6 p.m. c.t. | Room M210 (ZEPP)

Seminar schedule

15 October 2024 Internal kick-off meeting

22 October 2024 Paul Russell (Lund): True Scepticism and Responsibility Realism

29 October 2024 Anne Meylan (Zurich): Are Zetetic Reasons Agent-Relative?

5 November 2024 James Hutton (Delft): Emotion-Based Environmental Ethics: The Radical Implications of Taking Wonder Seriously

12 November 2024 Daniel Star (Boston): Judgment, Testimony, and Aesthetic Appreciation

19 November 2024 Gloria Mähringer (LMU): Aspirational agency between social change and social inertia

26 November 2024 Norbert Paulo (LMU): A Defense of the Use of Thought Experiments in Practical Philosophy

3 December 2024 James Lewis (Cardiff): Can reasons be irreducibly relational?

10 December 2024 Irina Schumski (Tübingen): Reasons Holism and the Place of Thick Facts in the Explanatory Order (session held jointly with Laura Valentini’s chair)

17 December 2024 Ralf Bader (Fribourg): Partiality across time

7 January 2025 no meeting

14 January 2025 Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld): What We May Expect of Each Other (jointly with Laura Valentini's chair)

22 January 2025 (Wednesday!) Stefan Gosepath (FU Berlin): Problems of merit in different spheres (jointly with Laura Valentini's chair, part of a workshop on " The Concept of Desert")

28 January 2025 no meeting

29 January 2025 (Wednesday!) Paulina Sliwa (Vienna): "Consciousness raising as enquiry"- jointly with Laura Valentini's chair

4 February 2025 Marius Baumann (LMU): "Moralische Unterbestimmtheit" (session in German)