Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Practical Philosophy/Ethics

Leo Eisenbach

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Leo Eisenbach

E-Mail: eisenbal@hu-berlin.de
Research Interests Epistemic and practical normativity, political philosophy, normative ethics.
Vita Doctoral Student at Humboldt University since April 2022, supported by the Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium of the state of Berlin. Prior to that, studies in Philosophy and Political Science in Frankfurt, Lyon, and Berlin. From February to April 2025, Visiting Scholar at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. From July 2025 to January 2026, Visiting Doctoral Student in the ERC-project „The Structure of Normativity“ at Bielefeld University.
Talks (Selection)

„Towards a Unified Theory of Praiseworthiness”, BBZ Workshop für Ethische Theorie, University of Bern (11.04.2025)

„Propagating Asymmetries between Praise(-worthiness) and Blame(-worthiness)”, XXVI. Deutsche Kongress für Philosophie, Universität Münster (23.09.2024).

„Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness: Not Forever”, ANU-Humboldt-Princeton Summer Institute on Practical Normativity 2024, Princeton University (22.08.2024).

„On the Temporality and Graduality of Blameworthiness”, 25th World Congress of Philosophy, La Sapienza University of Rome (04.08.2024); 98. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Birmingham (13.07.2024).

„Asymmetric Moral Responsibility”, 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, University of Vienna (22.08.2023).

„Analyzing Hypological Properties”, ANU-Humboldt-Princeton Summer Institute on Practical Normativity 2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (26.08.2022).
Current project

Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness: moral and epistemic


Sometimes, we deserve moral praise for our moral successes, and sometimes, we deserve moral blame for our moral failures. But it seems that, sometimes, we also deserve epistemic praise for our epistemic successes. And maybe also epistemic blame for our epistemic failures. The idea that praiseworthiness and blameworthiness are not merely moral concepts, but also epistemic ones, has gained some attraction in the most recent literature on normativity. However, it remains underexplored to which extent these concepts are structurally analogous in the moral and the epistemic domain. In my PhD-project, I identify important analogies and disanalogies between the moral and the epistemic domain with regards to these concepts. Moreover, it remains underexplored to which extent praiseworthiness and blameworthiness are (a)symmetrical. My PhD-project is thus also concerned with identifying important symmetries and asymmetries between praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.
Teaching

Ethics and Neuroscience
Course for Mind & Brain Master Students, Summer 2025 (Humboldt University Berlin) 

Ethics and Neuroscience
Course for Mind & Brain Master Students, Summer 2024 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)