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Ms Charlotte Unruh MRes, BA

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I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton, specializing in moral and political philosophy.

Before coming to Southampton, I did a MRes Philosophy at the University of Reading and a BA in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Bamberg. I also spent a year studying philosophy at each the University of Bochum, and the University of Prince Edward Island.

More recently, I held a PhD fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (May-June 2018), working on the ethics of risk and uncertainty.

Research interests

I work mainly on the philosophy of harm and intergenerational ethics. Questions I am interested in include: Can we distinguish doing from allowing harm to future people? How strong are moral reasons against harming? When is it wrong to risk harming others, and can we permissibly offset such risks?
I have further research interests in moral uncertainty and the ethics of risk.

PhD research

Title: Doing And Allowing Harm to Future Generations

Supervisors: Fiona Woollard, Brad Hooker

Funding: AHRC South Western Wales Doctoral Training Partnership

In September 2018, I organized the conference ‘Do Deontological Distinctions survive Future Generations?’. More details can be found on the conference website

Since 2018, I am an Ambassador for the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG). FRFG is a German advocatory think-tank which promotes intergenerational justice.

Since 2017, I am an AHRC SWW DTP Student Representative for Southampton.

At Ruhr-University Bochum, I have been a visiting lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) to design and teach the compact course ‘The Ethics of Future People’ in 2019, aimed at advanced undergraduate and MA students.

At the University of Southampton, I have been a seminar tutor for the following modules:

PHIL1002 Knowledge and Mind

PHIL1005 Ethics

PHIL2028 Appearance and Reality

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