Niklas Kurzböck

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Research Associate (Scientific Department)
Bonn University
German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Bonner Talweg 57
53113 Bonn
+49 228 / 73-8131
kurzboeck@drze.de
Personal Information
- since 2025: Research Associate at the DRZE
- 2021–2025: Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of Bonn (submitted in April 2025)
- 2024: Visiting Research Assistant at the University of Leeds
- 2017–2020: M.A. Philosophy at the University of Bonn
- 2014–2017: B.A. Governance and Public Policy at the University of Passau
Areas of Interest
- Metaethics (Moral Non-Naturalism; Normative Explanations; Intuitionism)
- Environmental Ethics (Non-Instrumental Value of Nature; Moral Status of Future Generations)
- Normative Ethics (Teleological, Non-Consequentalist Ethics)
- Metaphysics (Geist-Nature Relationship)
Publications / Talks / Teaching
Review
- Kurzböck, N. (2023). [Review of the book Limits of Intelligibility. Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein, by J. Pier]. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 77(3), 393–397. https://doi.org/10.3196/004433023837585997
Talks
- “Tackling the Epistemic Challenge to Robust Moral Non-Naturalism”, Philosophy Seminar (Dr. Erik Zhang), University of Leeds, November 2024 (invited).
- “How it is Possible to Gain Moral Knowledge about Moral Principles”, Philosophy PGR Seminar, University of Leeds, November 2024 (invited).
- “Moral Truth Without Dependence”, Research Seminar (Prof. Richard Gaskin), University of Liverpool, October 2024 (invited).
- „Moralische Wahrheit ohne Dependenz?“, Research Colloquium (Prof. Christoph Halbig), Chair of General Ethics, University of Zurich, March 2024 (invited).
- „Sind alle moralischen Tatsachen ‚Tatsachen über Gründe‘?“, Research Colloquium (PD Dr. Jens Rometsch), International Centre for Philosophy NRW, University of Bonn, December 2023 (invited).
- “The Identity Theory of Truth as a Version of Direct Realism”, The 97th Joint Session of the Aristotelean Society and the Mind Association Conference, July 2023 (refereed).
- „Was ist eine moralische Tatsache?“, Research Colloquium (Prof. Christoph Horn), Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn, December 2022 (invited).
- „Direkter Realismus und die Identitätstheorie der Wahrheit“, Event Series „Idealismus und Realismus heute“, International Centre for Philosophy NRW, University of Bonn, November 2022 (invited).
- „Warum ein non-naturalistischer moralischer Realismus einer idealistischen Ontologie bedarf“, Congress of the German Society of Analytic Philosophy (GAP), September 2022. (refereed).
- „Sind Tatsachen Wahrheiten?“, Research Colloquium (PD Dr. Jens Rometsch), International Centre for Philosophy NRW, University of Bonn, December 2021 (invited).
Teaching
- Summer 2022: Schellings System des transzendentalen Idealismus (M.A. seminar, in Cooperation with PD Dr. Jens Rometsch)
- 2020–2023: Tutorials accompanying the lecture on Moral Philosophy (held by Prof. Christoph Horn)
- 2018–2020: Tutorials accompanying the lecture on Epistemology (held by PD Dr. Jens Rometsch)
Public Philosophy
- „Warum der moralische Relativismus so gut wie sicher falsch ist“, Event Series „Eine Ethik für alle Kulturen?“, Philosophisches Jahr Monheim 2023. https://www.lokalkompass.de/monheim/c-kultur/eine-ethik-fuer-alle-kulturen_a1882951
- Co-Editor of the Journal Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, Issue: „Utopie und Realität“ 12/2022 (Vol. 69). https://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/ausgabe/utopie-und-realitaet/
- „Wie viel besser ist noch gut? Der Transhumanismus verspricht, den Menschen besser zu machen“, FORUM (Magazine of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) 01/2018, pp. 66–70.