Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Practical Philosophy/Ethics

Francesca Bunkenborg

Email: bunkenbf@hu-berlin.de

Research Interests

Normative Ethics, Moral Epistemology, Metaethics.

Vita

Francesca is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Humboldt University and a doctoral fellow in Prof. R. Jay Wallace’s Einstein Ethics Group. She did her B.A. and M.A. in philosophy with a minor in social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. She was a Fulbright visiting student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016-17) and a visiting research student at Stockholm University (09-11/2019) and the University of Toronto (02-03/2020).

“Moral Uncertainty and Higher-Order Evidence”, 2nd Jena Summer Symposium in Philosophy: The Ethics of Knowing, Jena University (01.08.2019)

“Justified Moral Uncertainty”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, University of Wollongong (08.07.2019); Berlin-Bern-Zürich Workshop Ethische Theorie, University of Zurich (29.03.2019)

“Moral Hedging and Moral Conviction“, 4^th Southampton-Humboldt Normativity Conference, University of Southampton (20.06.2019); 9^th Humboldt-Princeton Graduate Conference, HU Berlin (07.-08.06.2019); Kompetenzzentrum Ethik, LMU Munich (05.12.2018)

“Conceptual Engineering Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory“ (with Steffen Koch), University of Oslo (21.02.2019); 10th international conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.10), University of Cologne (20.09.2018)

 “What Not to Do When You Don't Know What to Do“, 10th international conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.10), University of Cologne (19.09.2018)

“Perspectivist Uncertaintism“, Understanding Value VII, University of Sheffield (20.07.2018)

“Moral Dilemmas and Deontic Logic“, 24^th Congress of the German Society for Philosophy, HU Berlin (27.09.2017); 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, LMU Munich (24.08.2017); 7th HU-KCL Graduate Workshop, King’s College London (22.06.2017)

Comments on Stephen Darwall: “Trust as a Second-Personal Attitude of the Heart”, 12^th Nomos Meeting, Universitat de les Illes Balears (10.06.2017)

“Beyond the Wrong Kind of Reasons Problem: Further Trouble for the Buck-Passer”, 6^th Humboldt-Princeton Graduate Conference, HU Berlin (24.06.2016)

Normativity and Uncertainty (PhD Research Project)

Teaching