Curriculum Vitae Dr. phil. Jörg Löschke University of Bern, Institute for Philosophy Länggassstrasse 49a, 3004 Bern, Switzerland joerg.loeschke@philo.unibe.ch ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 07/2016 09/2016 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Sponsor: William J. Talbott) 01/2016 07/2016 Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Sponsor: Michael Smith) 07/2014 today Postdoctoral Research Fellow, research project The normative significance of agent-relative reasons, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland. 01/2014 03/2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (Sponsors: Piers Rawling, David McNaughton). 01/2012 06/2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, research project Reasons of Partiality. The Ethics of Family Relationships, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland. 10/2011 01/2012 Assistant Professor (non-tenured), German Reference Center for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE), University of Bonn, Germany. 10/2010 09/2011 Research Assistant, Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn, Germany. 10/2009 07/2010 Research Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany. RESEARCH INTERESTS AOS AOC Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism, Value Theory, Agent- Relative Reasons, Personal Relationships, Associative Duties, Solidarity. Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Supererogation. 1
EDUCATION 12/2011 PhD in Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany. Thesis: Solidarität als moralische Arbeitsteilung (Solidarity as Moral Division of Labor). Committee: Prof. Dr. Christoph Horn, Prof. Dr. Corinna Mieth, Prof. Dr. Dieter Sturma, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Pieper. Overall grade: Summa cum laude. 07/2007 MA in Philosophy, Political Science, and German Literature, University of Bonn, Germany. Thesis: Die Debatte zwischen Egalitarismus und Nonegalitarismus in der zeitgenössischen Gerechtigkeitstheorie (Egalitarianism and Non- Egalitarianism in Contemporary Theories of Justice). Overall grade: 1,0 (best possible grade). PUBLICATIONS Monographs 2015 Solidarität als moralische Arbeitsteilung. Münster: mentis. Editorships 2016 New Trends in Family Ethics. Journal of Moral Philosophy 13, Special Issue (with Monika Betzler). Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2017 Friendship, Value, and Interpretation. In: Theoria (forthcoming). 2017 The Value of Caring. In: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (forthcoming). 2017 Relationships as Indirect Intensifiers: Solving the Puzzle of Partiality. In: European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). 2016 The Duty of the Patient to Cooperate. In: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik 21, 7 24. 2016 New Developments in Family Ethics: An Introduction. (with Monika Betzler) In: Journal of Moral Philosophy 13, S. 641-651. 2015 Research Involving Minors A Duty of Solidarity? (with Bert Heinrichs). In: Ethics in Biology, Engineering & Medicine 6, 67-80. 2015 Authority in Relationships. In: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23, 187-204. 2014 Second-Personal Reasons and Special Obligations. In: Croatian Journal of Philosophy 14, 293-308. 2
2014 Partiality, Agent-Relative Reasons, and the Individuals View. In: Social Theory and Practice 40, 673-682. Book Chapters 2015 Moral Sentimentalism and Partiality. In: Roughley, Neil/Schramme, Thomas (eds.): On Moral Sentimentalism. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 115-125 (with a reply by Michael Slote). 2015 Intimität und soziale Rollen: Zur Normativität von Geschwisterbeziehungen. In: Betzler, Monika/Bleisch, Barbara (eds.): Familiäre Pflichten. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 343 373. Encyclopedia Entries and Handbook Articles 2018 Filiale Pflichten. In: Johannes Drerup/Gottfried Schweiger (eds.), Handbuch Kindheit, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler (in Preparation). 2017 La solidarité. In: Deonna, Julien/Tieffenbach, Emma (eds.), Dictionnaire des valeurs, Edition d Ithaque (forthcoming). 2015 Dilemma. In: Sturma, Dieter/Heinrichs, Bert (eds.), Handbuch Bioethik, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 21-26. Book Reviews 2015 Jonathan Seglow: Defending Associative Duties. In: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69, 599 603. 2015 Harry Brighouse & Adam Swift: Family Values: The Ethics of Parent- Child Relationships. In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19. 541 543. 2014 Thomas Weitner, Menschenrechte, besondere Pflichten und globale Gerechtigkeit. Eine Untersuchung zur moralischen Rechtfertigung von Parteilichkeit gegenüber Mitbürgern. In: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 8, 208 212. Conference Proceedings and Other Works 2015 Familienethik. Ein Forschungsbericht (with Barbara Bleisch and Magdalena Hoffmann). In: Information Philosophie 1/2015, 16 29. 2013 Drei Arten von Hilfspflichten. In: Hoeltje, Miguel et al. (eds.):was dürfen wir glauben? Was sollen wir tun? Sektionsbeiträge des achten internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie e.v., Online-Veröffentlichung der Universität Duisburg-Essen (DuEPublico), 623 637. 3
Academic Outreach 09/2016 Radio Interview: Verpflichtend? Solidarität. Das philosophische Radio, WDR 5. PRESENTATIONS 08/2017 Practical Reasons as Appropriate Value Responses, European Conference for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP9), Munich, Germany. 06/2017 Agent-Relative Reasons as Second-Order Value Responses, Southampton-Humboldt Normativity Conference, Southampton, UK. 05/2017 Practical Reasons as Appropriate Value Responses, Tokyo University, Japan. 03/2017 Towards a Universal Access to Social Insurance Systems, Conference Sozialversicherung auf dem Weg zu einer universellen Solidarität? Ethische Debatten, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany. 02/2017 Collegiality, Conference The Moral Demands of Relationships, München, Deutschland (with Monika Betzler). 11/2016 Agent-Relative Reasons as Second-Order Value Responses, University of Munich, Germany. 11/2016 Agent-Relative Reasons as Second-Order Value Responses, University of Zurich, Switzerland. 10/2016 Solidarity and Supererogation, Workshop with David Heyd, Basel, Switzerland. 07/2016 Relationships, Value, and Interpretation, Conference The Normative Impact of Personal Relationships, Bern, Switzerland. 04/2016 Relationships, Value, and Interpretation, PhilLunch Talk, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 12/2015 Supererogation and Agent-Relative Reasons, Workshop Supererogation: Concept and Context, Basel, Switzerland. 09/2015 Beziehungen als indirekte Gründeverstärker, Konferenz der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP.9), Osnabrück, Germany. 04/2015 Special Obligations in Medical Contexts: The Case of Patients, 8th International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York City, USA. 11/2014 Solidarität mit Kindern, Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, Salzburg, Austria. 4
10/2014 Beziehungen als deontische Statusveränderer, Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster, Deutschland. 08/2014 Special Relationships, Agent-Relative Reasons, and Intensifiers, European Conference for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP8), Bucharest, Romania 05/2014 Second-Personal Reasons and Special Obligations, Author Colloquium with Stephen Darwall, University of Zurich, Switzerland 03/2014 Comment on Christoph Baumberger and Georg Brun, Justifying Understanding by Reflective Equilibrium, Conference Towards an Epistemology of Understanding. Rethinking Justification, University of Bern, Switzerland. 01/2014 Comment on Amy Mullin, Dependent Children. Gratitude and Respect, Conference Family Ethics. Partiality Revisited, University of Bern, Switzerland. 11/2013 Was sind Gründe der Parteilichkeit? Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie, Universität Bern, Schweiz. 09/2013 Agent-Relative Reasons and the Justification of Partiality,Workshop Meeting the Author: Simon Keller, Partiality, University of Bern, Switzerland. 08/2013 Reasons for Love A Holistic Account, World Congress for Philosophy, Athens, Greece. 06/2013 Research Involving Minors A Duty of Solidarity?, Society for Applied Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland. 06/2013 Comment on Alan Thomas, Why Practical Wisdom Cannot be Principled, Workshop Moral Particularism and Methods in Ethics, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 09/2012 Drei Arten von Hilfspflichten, Konferenz der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP.8), Konstanz, Deutschland). 09/2012 Four types of special normative commitments, Conference of the Italian Association for Analytical Philosophy (SIFA), Alghero, Italien. 06/2012 Solidarity and the Family, Workshop The Normativity of Personal Relationships Workshop with David Velleman, University of Bern, Switzerland. 01/2012 Solidarität als moralische Arbeitsteilung, University of Bochum, Germany. 10/2010 Special Obligations: Strategies of Justificiation, Graduate Conference Norms in Conflict, Frankfurt, Germany. 5
09/2010 Solidarität als moralische Arbeitsteilung, Momentum10: Solidarität, Hallstatt, Austria. 10/2009 Die Reichweite von Gerechtigkeitsprinzipien und schutzwürdiger Güter, Graduate Conference Normative Orders: Justification and Sanction, Frankfurt, Germany. 09/2009 Human Rights, Solidarity, and the Moral Division of Labor, Summer School The Diversity of Human Rights: Human rights and democracy in the age of globalization, Dubrovnik, Croatia. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Bern Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Spring 2014 Spring 2013 Proseminar Kant, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. Seminar: Associative Duties (with Monika Betzler). Proseminar: Consequentialism. Proseminar: The Philosophy of Bernard Williams. Introductory Course Political Philosophy. Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Proseminar: Justice: Contemporary Positions. Seminar: Justice: Historical Perspectives. University of Bonn Winter 2010/11 Summer 2010 Proseminar: Jürgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics. Proseminar: John Leslie Mackie: Ethics. Inventing Right and Wrong. University of Zurich 2013-2015 Teaching Assistant for the Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics program (Business ethics: general reflections on ethics and economics; theories of justice, especially just wage theory; ethical aspects of advertisement; General ethics: theories of justice, deontology, consequentialism). SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Referee for: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Politics, Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie. GRANTS 6
2015 Workshop Grant Supererogation. Concept and Context, Mittelbauvereinigung University of Bern (with Hubert Schnüriger); 3.268 CHF. 2015 Workshop Grant Supererogation. Concept and Context, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (with Hubert Schnüriger); 8.790 CHF. 2014 Project Grant The Normative Significance of Agent-Relative Reasons, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (with Monika Betzler); 363.851 CHF. 2013 Conference Grant Family Ethics. Partiality Revisited, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), (with Magdalena Hoffmann and Barbara Bleisch); 12.580 CHF. 2013 Workshop Grant Partiality, University of Bern; 2000 CHF. 2013 Workshop Grant Partiality, Mittelbauvereinigung University of Bern; 4480 CHF. 2012 Workshop Grant The Normativity of Personal Relationships, Mittelbauvereinigung University of Bern (with Magdalena Hoffmann and Barbara Bleisch); 4600 CHF. AWARDS 2014 Runner-Up, Robert Papazian Annual Essay Prize on Themes from Ethics and Political Philosophy. 2012 Winner, Kant Prize for the best dissertation of the academic year 2011/2012, University of Bonn. ORGANIZED EVENTS 2015 Workshop Supererogation Concept and Context, University of Basel (with Hubert Schnüriger). Invited speakers (among others): Douglas Portmore, Brian McElwee, Alfred Archer, Claire Benn. 2014 Conference Family Ethics. Partiality Revisited, University of Bern (with Magdalena Hoffmann and Barbara Bleisch). Invited speakers (among others): David Archard, Samantha Brennan, Matthew Liao, Amy Mullin, Adam Swift, Sarah Stroud. 2013 Partiality Workshop with Simon Keller, University of Bern. 2012 The Normativity of Personal Relationships Workshop with David Velleman, University of Bern (with Magdalena Hoffmann and Barbara Bleisch). 7
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie. Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie. American Philosophical Association. Netzwerk Philosophie und Kindheit. 8