Monika Betzler#
| Membership Number: | 6823 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.monikabetzler.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0973-3951 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich/Germany
- 2006 - 2015 Chair for Practical Philosophy, University of Bern/Switzerland
- 2005 - 2006 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich/Germany
- 2003 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Political Theory, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich/Germany
- 2002 - 2003 Feodor-Lynen-Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department, UC Berkeley/USA
- 1997 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georg August University Göttingen/Germany
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Harvard University/USA
- 1994 - 1996 McCloy Scholar, Kennedy School of Government, Havard University/USA
- 1993 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georg August University Göttingen/Germany
- 1992 - 1993 Trainee and "Expert" at the Forward Studies Unit, Commission of the European Union, Brussels/Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Normative ethics
- Metanormative theory
- Moral psychology
- Ethics of personal relationships
- Philosophy of agency
Honours and Awards
- 2023 (spring and fall) Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship, Philosophy Department, Lund University/Sweden
- 2023 Findlay Professorship, Philosophy Department, Boston University, Boston/USA (shortlisted as second)
- 2022 (fall) Visiting Research Professor, ERC Project "Group Agency", Philosophy Department, University of Vienna/Austria
- 2022 (spring) Professeur Invitée, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris/France
- 2022 - present Nominated and elected as member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, Paris/France
- 2022 - present Appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Thyssen Foundation, Cologne/Germany
- 2021 - 2022 Award of a Research Group on "Relationships in Transition: Normative Challenges", Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich/Germany
- 2022 Nomination for the Gregory Kavka Prize for Political Philosophy/University of California at Irvine
- 2024 for the article (co-authored with Jörg Löschke) on “Collegial Relationships” (the prize has been discontinued due to funding difficulties)
- 2021 Elected Spokeswoman and Founding Member of the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich/Germany
- 2020 - present Elected Member of the Review Board in Philosophy, German Science Foundation
- 2019 Winner of the Robert Papazian Essay Prize 2018 for the article “The Relational Value of Empathy” by the "International Journal for Philosophical Studies"
- 2018 - 2023 Award to establish a Graduate School "Munich School of Ethics in Practice", funded by VolkswagenFoundation with 1,62 million Euros (PI)
- 2018 Nominated and elected as a Member of AcademiaNet (online expert database for outstanding female academics)
- 2018 - present Appointed member of the Humboldt Research Grant Committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn/Germany
- 2018 and 2022 Prize of the LMU student association for an outstanding lecture in philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich/Germany
- 2014 - present Appointed member of the scientific advisory board of the faculy for philosophy and education, University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria
- 2012 - present Elected member of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, Bern/Switzerland
- 2012 - 2013 Awarded a visiting research professorship, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans/USA
- 2002 - 2003 Awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Philosophy Department, University of California at Berkeley/USA
- 1994 - 1996 Awarded a McCloy Scholarship, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA/USA
- 1988 - 1992 Awarded a Doctoral Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (promoting academic excellence)
