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Janis Schaab

Janis Schaab

Fellow

Ethical theory, Kant

My research is mainly concerned with ethical theory, particularly duties to oneself, rights, dignity, and the relation between moral obligations and practical reason. I am especially interested in Kantian and second-personal approaches to these topics. Recently, I have also developped an interest in the philosophy of conspiracy theories.During my time at the Centre, I want to explore the prospects of interepreting Kant's philosophy as seeking to identify the constitutive principles of our fundamental rational capacities. More specifically, I want to find out whether conceiving of the Kantian will as a capacity, and the moral law as its constitutive principle, can inform debates -- both in Kant scholarship and in current ethical theory -- about autonomy of the will and the authority of morality.

From 2020 to 2022, I was a Postdoc at the University of Groningen. Before that, I spent one year as a Teaching Fellow at UCL. I received my PhD from the St Andrews/Stirling Philosophy Graduate Programme in 2019.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation