This talk is part of the Philosophy Visiting Speakers Series.
Professor Corinna Mieth's visit is being funded by a Benjamin Meaker Award and she is being hosted by Dr Martin Sticker from the Department of Philosophy.
Prof Corinna Mieth's biography:
Corinna Mieth is Full Professor for Practical Philosophy at Ruhr-University Bochum since 2010. She got her PhD from the University of Tuebingen (2002) with a book on "Utopian Thinking in Literature and Philosophy" and her Habilitation from the University of Bonn (2009) with a book on "Positive Duties". She's published on Kant's Practical Philosophy, the Political Philosophy of John Rawls, Positive and Negative Duties, Human Dignity, Moralism, Global (In)justice and Challenges of Migration. She had Fellowships at the Research Institute for Philosophy, Hanover (2006-07), the Ethics Center at the University of Zurich (2008), the Institute for Advanced Studies at Berlin (2020-21) and the Fondation de la Science de L'Homme at Paris (2022). She was a visiting professor at Trinity College Dublin (2019) and the University of Rijeka (2022). Currently she's leading a joint Germany/UK research project with Martin Sticker (Bristol) about "Using People Well and Treating People Badly: Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means" (2023-26) and she is part of the Project Management of the “Digital Kant-Centre NRW“ (since 09/2022).
You can read more about Prof Corinnna Mieth's collaboration with Dr Martin Sticker on their Benjamin Meaker Award webpage.