Munich Center for Ethics
University of Munich
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 Munich
heilinger@lmu.de
+49 (0)89 2180 6082
Office: Veronika Sager
mke@lmu.de
+49 (0)89 2180 6083
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. in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (1,0 with distinction) |
1998–2003 | Studying philosophy at the universities of Cologne, Paris (Paris-IV Sorbonne and Paris-X Nanterre) and Berlin (Humboldt) |
1977 | Born in Cologne |
Practical philosophy in all of its shades, particularly global ethics, global justice and the idea of cosmopolitanism, the philosophy of human rights, applied ethics (focus on the ethics of human enhancement), methods of ethical decision making in practical contexts, the ethics of pragmatism, and the connection between practical philosophy and philosophical anthropology.
Latest conferences:
“Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration” at Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne, on February 21, 2019
“Cosmopolitan Responsibility” at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, on February 1, 2019
“Global Individual Responsibility” at the Munich Center for Ethics, on April 25–27, 2018
“The Ethics of Complex Global Challenges” at the VELiM Center, University of Sydney, on March 2/3, 2017
“Global Justice and Global Health Ethics” at the Munich Center for Ethics, LMU Munich, on July 8/9, 2016