Research

We research moral philosophical questions in the environment of digitalisation and artificial intelligence. Other areas of focus are migration ethics and global justice. In the field of general ethics, we work in particular on theories of trust, responsibility and duty as well as supererogation.

Projects

Using people well, treating people badly: Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means

This project will develop a Kantian account of mistreating persons alongside an account of treating persons well. According to a well-known principle of Kant's ethics, we should never use people merely as means.

BMBF Project DiversPrivat: Diversity-friendly privacy in digital environments

A lack of background knowledge in digital privacy can have structural or personal reasons. The BMBF project DiversPrivat has set out to develop mechanisms to improve data protection competence among digital service users.

Feminist Perspectives on Supererogation

Feminist perspectives represent a research desideratum in moral philosophical supererogation research. The debate has so far focused on the definition of the category of supererogation, its theoretical justification and accompanying critique of modern moral philosophy.

Expired projects

AITE

The project “Artificial Intelligence, Trustworthiness and Explainability” (AITE) investigates which epistemological and scientific standards AI must meet so that it can be considered explainable on the one side and on the other side, which ethical norms it has to fulfill in order to be called trustworthy.

Villa Vigoni Talks "Rethinking Migration"

Professor Karoline Reinhardt (University of Passau) and Professor Roberta Picardi (Università del Molise) have invited German and Italian early career researchers to Villa Vigoni on the banks of Lake Como for extensive talks to develop new political and philosophical approaches to the issue of migration.

Professorship of Applied Ethics (tenure-track professorship)

Using people well, treating people badly: Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means

BMBF Project DiversPrivat: Diversity-friendly privacy in digital environments

Feminist Perspectives on Supererogation

AITE

Villa Vigoni Talks "Rethinking Migration"