selected publications
Book at Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2020)
The Role of Chatbots in a Digital Society - The Domestication of AI
Book (with Megan Volpert) at Open Court Publishing (forthcoming, December 2019)
RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy
Paper in the “Yearbook of Practical Philosophy”, Herder Verlag (forthcoming)
Moral Progress and AI - Can we learn morality from algorithms?
Presentation at the Biannual Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, College Station, Texas, US (20.-22. May 2019)
Are you talking to me? - On the Domestication of Chatbots
paper in “War and Peace”, the conference proceedings of the 4. International Philosophy Conference, (Sentez Publishing: Bursa 2018, p. 244-248)
Peace-Making AI? On the Moral Permissibility of Autonomous Battle Drones
Presentation at the conference “Energy Justice and the Capability Approach”, Malmö, Sweden (12. September-13. September 2018)
Trade-Offs, Energy Justice and the Capability Approach
Elements of a Philosophy of ARtificial INtelligence
Presentation at the Philosophical Institute, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
Presentation at the NCPS-SCSP Biannual joint Session, Rock Hill, South Carolina (24.March-25.March 2018)
Artificial Intelligent Chatbots and the Future of Expressivism
Presentation at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Meeting, London, UK (29.August-01.September 2017)
Towards Global Mobility Justice
presentation at the ISAGA 2017 workshop on serious moral games, Delft, THe Netherlands (10.July-14.July 2017) [cancelled]
Methodological uncertainty for the purpose of serious moral games
Presentation at the PhD-Seminar of the Philosophy Department at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (27. April 2017)
Moral Update-Semantics
Presentation at the PhD-Seminar of the Philosophy Department at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (07. December 2016)
The Argument from Analogy of Aesthetic and normative judgments
Article in the Conference Proceedings of "Philosophy, Tradition, Democracy", edited by A. Kadir Cücen (2015)
Democratic and Moral Compromise
Presentation at the "Ethics of Debt" conference at the University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa (24.September-26.September 2015)
Morality and Austerity
Presentation at the conference "Solidarity as the Source of Normativity", Wroclaw, Poland (15.June - 16.June 2015)
The Virtue of Solidarity as A Foundation of Ethics
Presentation at the conference "Building Consensus" in Palermo, Italy (15.April-18.April 2015)
Compromise instead of Consensus - A new approach to solve moral (and other) conflicts
Article in the Conference Proceedings of "The City and Philosophy" conference, edited by A. Kadir Cücen (2013), p. 461-467.
Risk and City
Article in "Aufklärung und Kritik" 4 (2011), p. 134-141.
David Humes Soziale Erkenntnistheorie
Review in "Aufklärung und Kritik" 4 (2010), p. 247-248
"Dialektik der Abklärung" by Christian Hansel
Teaching
WS 2022/2023 - Climate Ethics
SS 2022 - Human-Machine Relationships
WS 2021/2022 - Environmental Ethics
SS 2021 - Bias, Stereotypes, and Prejudice
WS 2020/2021 - Climate Ethics