Jonas Harney
I’m a postdoc in Philosophy at the University of Fribourg since Autumn 2026 within Ralf Bader’s research project on non-identity problems.
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), a research visitor at Rutgers University (2021), and postdoc fellow at TU Dortmund University (2024–2026).
The main focus of my research is on moral theory, political philosophy, and decision theory. I’ve specialised in the ethics of well-being, population ethics, interpersonal aggregation, distributive justice, the ethics of future generations, and diachronic decisions. 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. Currently, I’m working on (partial) aggregation, particularly in multiple-option choices, essentially comparative views in both ethics and decision theory, and diachronic decisions.
I’m a co-organiser of the International 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, decision theory, and further topics at Humboldt University Berlin, Saarland University and TU Dortmund University.
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