Publications


Monographs

The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism. De Gruyter, 2018.

Articles

Forthcoming: “Faktum der Vernunft oder Faktum der Kultur? Ein Problem für Kants Beweis der Freiheit”. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. Link

Forthcoming: “Perspective Lost? Nonnaturalism and the Argument from Ethical Phenomenology”. Dialectica. Link

“The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry”. Journal of Value Inquiry. Online first (Aug. 2023). Link (Open Access)

“Actual Guidance is Enough: On Sharadin’s and Van Someren Greve’s Discussion of Deontic Evaluation”. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Vol 24 (1). 2023. Link (Open Access)

“Still a Misty Mountain: Assessing Parfit’s Non-Realist Cognitivism”. In: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie. Vol 2 (2), S. 213-230, 2019. Link

“Metaethischer Konativismus. Versuch einer Neubelebung". Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie. Vol. 1 (1). S. 27-56, 2018. Link

“On Promoting the Dead Certain. A Reply to Behrends, DiPaolo, and Sharadin”. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Vol. 11 (3). 2017Link (Open Access)

...to be continued...


The Conative Web

Depiction of the network of our conative states (desires, hopes, fears, etc.) and their interrelations. Our deepest desires form the center of the web, our more shallow ones are found at the fringes.