Dr. Inken Titz

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Short Bio

Inken Titz has been a research associate at the Chair of Ethics and Philosophy of Emotions at RUB since September 2021. Her research and teaching focuses on normative and applied ethics, especially ethics of moral enhancement and artificial intelligence, moral psychology, and metaethics.

Currently, Inken is working on a project on the 'moral potential' of moral enhancement using Artificial Intelligence. She is concerned with what moral enhancement through AI can look like. To what extent can there be such moral enhancement that does not undermine possible preconditions of morality (e.g. autonomy or authenticity)? Does the outsourcing of moral work to technologies lead to a loss or possibly an enhancement of individuals' moral competence?

In her dissertation Why Perspective Matters: The Epistemic Dimension of Right Action, Inken defended a perspectivist theory of normative reasons and the thesis that right action necessarily depends on epistemic considerations.

Inken received her PhD from LMU Munich and was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and the University of Southampton. She studied philosophy and sociology at LMU Munich and Fudan University (Shanghai) and graduated with a master's thesis on external freedom in Kant's Doctrine of Right. Inken is an associate member of the Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality (Zegra).

Area of Specialization

Normative Ethics
Metaethics
Theories of Normativity
Moral Enhancement

Area of Competence

Moral Psychology
Philosophy of Law / Political Philosophy
Applied Ethics
History of Ethics

Publications

Books

Why Perspective Matters: The Epistemic Dimension of Right Action (under review)

Work in progress (Articles)

The shifty ought challenge
The diachronic dimension of advice

 

Talks (excerpt)

• ‘A perspectivist rationale for deliberation,’ 09/10/2021, DGPhil Congress 2021, Erlangen (online)
   
• ‘Perspectivism and advice,’ 10/01/2021, Conference for Practical Philosophy, Salzburg
   
• ‘The shifty ought challenge,’ 03/08/20, Munich – New York City Workshop in Ethics, Columbia University New York
   
• ‘Reasons factualism with an internalist twist,’ 12/05/19, Workshop ‘Rationality: what’s good, what’s bad,’ University of Zurich