Members
– Principal Investigator –
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Leonhard Menges
Leonhard Menges is the head of the Salzburg Ethics Group and PI of both the responsibility project and the privacy project. He is Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg where he teaches ethics, social, and political philosophy. His research focuses on blame and responsibility as well as on questions surrounding the right to privacy.
E-Mail: leonhard.menges@plus.ac.at
Responsibility Project
– Post-Doc –
Maria Seim, PhD
Maria Seim is part of the Salzburg Ethics Group as a post-doc in the responsibility project since September 2023. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Oslo, Norway, in March 2021, and has worked as a lecturer in philosophy at the same university since. Her research focuses on the nature and ethics of blame and forgiveness, the standing to blame and to forgive, and moral responsibility. Further topics she works on include philosophy of emotion and philosophy of psychology.
E-Mail: maria.seim@plus.ac.at
– Doctoral Student –
Leonie Eichhorn, MA
Leonie Eichhorn is part of the Salzburg Ethics Group as a doctoral student in the responsibility project since October 2022. Before that, she studied philosophy at the University of Salzburg and spent one term at Stockholm University as an exchange student. Her research focuses on the relationship between moral blame- and praiseworthiness.
E-Mail: leonie.eichhorn@plus.ac.at
Privacy Project
– Post-Doc –
Lizzy Ventham, PhD
Lizzy Ventham is part of the Salzburg Ethics Group as a post-doc in the privacy project. Before this position she has been a postdoc in Liverpool working on empathy and interpersonal understanding, and a teaching fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Her other research interests include desires, practical normativity, and the nature of pleasure and pain.
E-Mail: elizabeth.ventham@plus.ac.at
– Doctoral Student –
Asja Ahatovic, MA
Asja Ahatovic is a member of the Salzburg Ethics Group as a Phd student in the project on privacy. She has a Bachelor of Education and a Masters degree in philosophy from the University of Salzburg and spent a year studying abroad in Turin, Italy.
Her research focus lies on the right to privacy and in particular the source control account of privacy.
E-Mail: asja.ahatovic@plus.ac.at
Former Members
Shawn Tinghao Wang, PhD
Shawn Wang was part of the Salzburg Ethics Group as a post-doc in the responsibility project from September 2022 to September 2023. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego in 2022 and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. He works primarily on topics in ethics and moral psychology.
Guests
Sayid R. Bnefsi
Sayid Bnefsi is a PhD and JD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. He was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Salzburg as an Ernst Mach Scholar in spring 2023. During his stay, he examined the ethics and legal philosophy of risking as part of the Salzburg Ethics Group.
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