Publications etc.

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Books and edited books

Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Forthcoming (fall 2019), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.
Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. Berlin/Boston 2019 (co-ed. with S. Karly Kehoe/Eva Alisic).
Moral, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2016 (co-ed. with Julian Nida-Rümelin).
Anthropologie und Ethik. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2015 (co-ed. with Julian Nida-Rümelin).
The Philosophy of Human Rights. Contemporary Controversies. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2012 (co-ed. with Gerhard Ernst).
Anthropologie und Ethik des Enhancements. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2010.
- Reviews:
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung 2010: 9. November 2010, 51.
- Christian Lenk 2011: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14 (3), 357–359.
- Michael Hauskeller 2011: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 65 (2), 287–292.
- Boris Eßmann 2011: Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 14 (4), 425–427.
- Werner Moskopp 2011: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4), 355–361.
- Elif Özmen 2012: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte 98 (2), 289–292.
Über Menschliches. Biotechnische Verbesserung des Menschen zur Überwindung von Leiden und Tod? Zürich/Biel: Dialog Ethik 2010 (with Markus Christen).
Individualität und Selbstbestimmung. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2009 (co-ed. with Colin G. King, Héctor Wittwer).
Volker Gerhardt: Die Funken des freien Geistes. Neuere Aufsätze über Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2011 (co-ed. with Nikolaos Loukidelis).
Funktionen des Erlebens. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2009 (co-ed. with Matthias Jung).
Was ist der Mensch? Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2008 (co-ed. with Detlev Ganten, Volker Gerhardt, Julian Nida-Rümelin).
Naturgeschichte der Freiheit. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2007 (ed.).

Articles (selection)

Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2019): Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility. In: S. Karly Kehoe/Eva Alisic/Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.): Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2019, 131–147.
Branford, Jason/Parisi, Eva/Grahle, André/Muth, Max/Wild, Verina/Heilinger, Jan-Christoph: Cyberhate against academics. In: S. Karly Kehoe/Eva Alisic/Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.): Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 205–225.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2018): Die Grenzen des Menschen. In: Der neue Mensch. Schriftenreihe Band 10247. Hg. von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn, 97–106.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2017): Individuelle moralische Verantwortung im globalen Kontext. Bin ich verantwortlich für den Klimawandel? In: Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive 2017, 264–286.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph/Müller, Oliver/Sample, Matthew (2017): Alterations of conceptions of human nature. The ethical challenge of biotechnological interventions on humans. In: Thomas Schramme et al. (eds.): Springer Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, vol. 2. Berlin: Springer, 1061–1076.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2016): Zwei Konzeptionen globaler Gleichheit. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (5), 757–767.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2016): Enhancement und Gerechtigkeit. In: Anna Goppel/Corinna Mieth/Christian Neuhäuser (eds.): Handbuch Gerechtigkeit. Stuttgart: Metzler, 372–374.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph/Müller, Oliver (2016): Der Cyborg. Anthropologische und ethische Überlegungen. In: Arne Manzeschke/Fabian Karsch (eds.): Roboter, Computer und Hybride. Was ereignet sich zwischen Menschen und Maschinen? Baden-Baden: Nomos, 47–66.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2016): Die Grenzen des Menschen. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 37/38: Der neue Mensch. Hg. von der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn, 22–26.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2016): Konflikte in der Ethik. Anmerkungen aus pragmatistischer Perspektive. In: Julian Nida-Rümelin/Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.): Moral, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 145–159.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2015): Mensch, Weltbürger. Über Anspruch und Umsetzbarkeit des moralischen Kosmopolitismus. In: Jan-Christoph Heilinger/Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.): Anthropologie und Ethik. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 113–134.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph/Pogge, Thomas (2015): Globale Gerechtigkeit. In: Julian Nida-Rümelin/Irina Spiegel/Markus Tiedemann (eds.): Philosophie und Lehre. Paderborn: Schöningh, 304–312.
Johann Roduit/Jan-Christoph Heilinger/Holger Baumann (2015): Ideas of perfection and the ethics of human enhancement. In: Bioethics 29 (9), 622–630.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2015): Contemporary cosmopolitanism and elements of its history. In: Telegdi-Csetri, Aron (ed.): Problematizing cosmopolitanism. Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut 2015, 53–81.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2015): Metaethik und Pragmatismus. Anmerkungen zur praktischen Philosophie Nida-Rümelins. In: von der Pfordten, Dietmar (ed.): Moralischer Realismus? Zur kohärentistischen Metaethik Julian Nida-Rümelins. Münster: mentis, 119–128.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2014): Anthropological arguments in the ethical debate about human enhancement. In: Humana mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26, 95–116.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph/Crone, Katja (2013): Human Freedom and Enhancement. In: Journal of Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 17 (1), 13–21.
Wild, Verina/Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2013): Cosmopolitanism within borders: A normative foundation for health care for asylum seekers? In: American Journal of Bioethics 13 (7), 17–19.
Roduit, Johann/Baumann, Holger/Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2013): Human Enhancement and Perfection. In: Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (10), 647–650.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2013): Normative anthropologische Argumente und Human Enhancement. In: Studia philosophica 72 (1), 272–284.
Slaby, Jan/Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2013): Lost in phenospace? Questioning the claims of popular neuroscience. In: Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 1 (2), 83–100.
Heilinger, Jan-Christoph (2012): The moral demandingness of socioeconomic human rights. In: Gerhard Ernst/Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.): The Philosophy of Human Rights. Contemporary Controversies. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2012, 185–208.

Edited book series

Humanprojekt – Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie (managing series-editor, co-editors: Detlev Ganten, Volker Gerhardt, Julian Nida-Rümelin): 16 volumes since 2007. [link]

Academic presentations (selection)

02/2019 “Cosmopolitan Responsibility and the Integration of Newcomers”, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School
02/2019 Workshop “Debating Cosmopolitan Responsibility” on my Book Manuscript, Scuola Normale Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
05/2018 “Cosmopolitan Identity and the Egalitarian Ethos”, International Workshop “Beyond Open and Closed Borders. Identity and New Citizenships”, Scuola Normale Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
12/2017 “The Power and Responsibility of Science”, International Congress on Ethics in Science and Technology, International Center of the National Library of Iran, Tehran
11/2017 “Biotechnologie und Gesellschaft – Metadiskurse der Anthropologie”, Workshop Anthropologisches Denken im Wandel, Universität zu Köln
06/2017 “Individual responsibility. The case of refugee integration”, University of Birmingham, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics
03/2017 “Moral and social progress”, University of Sydney, Centre VELiM
03/2017 “Global challenges, structural injustice, and individual responsibility”, University of Sydney, Workshop “The Ethics of Complex Global Challenges”
12/2016 “Moralisches Versagen”, Institut für Philosophie, TU Dortmund
07/2016 “Global relational egalitarianism. For and against”, International Workshop “Global Justice and Global Health Ethics. Exploring the Influence of Iris M. Young” LMU Munich
04/2016 “Gleichheit als Ideal globaler Gerechtigkeit?”, Universität Regensburg, Institut für Philosophie
10/2015 “Inequality, harm, and responsibility for climate change”, Panel Contribution, Workshop of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission “The Inequality of Climate Change. Scientific and policy challenges and perspectives”, BBAW

Classes taught (selection)

Cosmopolitanism and Nations (LMU Summer 2019) [syllabus]
L’éthique utilitariste (ENS Port-au-Prince, April 2019) [syllabus]
Moral progress (LMU, Winter 2018/19)
John Rawls: Justice as Fairness (LMU Munich, Summer 2018)
Justice locale et justice globale (ENS Port-au-Prince, March 2018)
Praktische Ethik (Vorlesung, LMU, Winter 2017/18)
The ethics and politics of migration (Venice International University, October 2017, with Verina Wild and Christine Bratu)
The ethics and politics of migration (LMU Munich, Summer 2017)
Platon: Gorgias (LMU Munich, Summer 2017)
Themes and methods of applied ethics (LMU Munich, Winter 2016/17)
Justice and equality (Venice International University, November 2016, with Christine Bratu)
Justice globale et souveraineté nationale (ENS Port-au-Prince, March 2016)
The Philosophy of Human Rights. Foundations, Applications, Challenges (LMU Munich, Summer 2016)
Responsibility, Justice, and Social Connections: The moral and political philosophy of Iris M. Young (LMU Munich, Winter 2015/16) [syllabus]
Moral Responsibility (LMU Munich, Summer 2015) [syllabus]
What is the point of equality? (LMU Munich, Winter 2014/15, with Carina Fourie) [syllabus]
Dewey’s pragmatistische Ethik (LMU Munich, Summer 2014, with Christoph Henning) [syllabus]

Research grants and awards (selection)

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Deutscher Studienpreis
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Global Young Academy
Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung, Berlin
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
Swiss National Science Foundation
Udo Keller-Stiftung/Forum Humanum, Hamburg
University of Zurich, University Priority Research Program Ethics
Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover (European Platform for the Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities)
ZEIT-Stiftung, Hamburg

Since 2013	Academic director (Akademischer Geschäftsführer) of the Munich Center for Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and lecturer in philosophy (Akademischer Rat) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Philosophy
Since 2014	Permanent visiting lecturer (professeur invité), spring term, at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université d’Etat d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince (Philosophie)
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2017 (Feb-Apr)	Visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (Australia) and the University of Auckland (New Zealand)
2016	Habilitation at LMU Munich: “Global relational equality. Moral cosmopolitanism in a pragmatic perspective”. Committee: Gillian Brock (Auckland), Monika Betzler (LMU), Karsten Fischer (LMU), Carina Fourie (Seattle), Julian Nida-Rümelin (LMU)
2012 (Jun–Nov)	Visiting researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Department of Philosophy)
2011 (Aug–Oct)	Visiting researcher at New York University (Department of Philosophy)
2010–2013	Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Zurich (Center for Ethics)
2009	Dr. phil. (summa cum laude) from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: “Anthropologie und Ethik des Enhancements”. Committee: Volker Gerhardt (HU Berlin), Julian Nida-Rümelin (LMU Munich), Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
2009 (Feb–Apr)	Visiting scholar at Columbia University (Department of Philosophy)
2008 (Feb–Sept)	Visiting researcher at the University of Zurich (Center for Ethics)
2004–2010	Researcher and scientific coordinator of two research projects at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2003–2004	Editor’s assistant at de Gruyter publ., Berlin
2003	M.A. (‘with distinction’) in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
1998–2003	Studying philosophy at the universities of Cologne, Paris (Paris-IV Sorbonne and Paris-X Nanterre) and Berlin (Humboldt)
1977	Born in Cologne