Jonas Harney
I received my PhD from Saarland University, where I was also a research and teaching fellow (both 2018–2024). I did my MA in Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin (2018) and my BA in Philosophy, Sociology, and Political Sciences at TU Dresden (2012). I was a research and teaching fellow at Humboldt University Berlin (2019–2020) and a research visitor at Rutgers University (Fall 2021).
My research is mainly on moral theory, with a specialisation on the ethics of well-being, interpersonal aggregation, and distributive justice. In my dissertation "The Dual Force of Welfare", I’ve investigated the distinction between personal and impersonal views in welfare ethics, including investigations on the grounds of the moral value of welfare, population ethics, and welfare trade-offs between individuals. Finishing upon these issues, I plan to work more on (partial) aggregation, particularly in multiple-option choices.
I’m also interested in political philosophy, decision theory, and applied ethics. I’m a co-organiser of the Workshop on Welfare and Ethics (WoW) and I was Vice President of the German Society for Utilitarian Studies (2020–2023).
I’ve taught various courses on normative ethics, ethical theories, political philosophy, (distributive) justice, well-being, applied ethics, and further topics at Humboldt University Berlin and Saarland University.
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