Team > Prof. Dr. Julian Fink


Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Practical Philosophy
Julian Fink is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. He is also the Co-Director of the Philosophy & Economics (P&E) MA Programme and the MA Programme’s Chair of the Exam Board. Julian is a Research Affiliate at the Centre of the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo.
Julian earned his BPhil (2005) and DPhil (2010) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford (under the supervision of John Broome and Krister Bykvist) and his BA (2003) in P&E from Bayreuth (as P&E’s fifth graduate). Prior to joining Bayreuth in 2017, he was a SNF Research Fellow at the University of Berne (2014-17), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2016), Member and International Fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2014-15), Lecturer in P&E at Bayreuth (2013-14), ERC Research Fellow at the University of Vienna (2010-13) and Norwegian Research Council Fellow at the CSMN at the University of Oslo (2009-10). He held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna (2016) and Graz (2014), as well as P&E’s Adam Smith Guest Professorship at Bayreuth (2012-13).
Areas of Specialisation
Rationality, Reasoning, Normativity. Theoretical Ethics. The Nature of Nazi Law.
Areas of Competence
Meta-, Applied, and Business Ethics. Political and Legal Philosophy. The Philosophy of Institutional Economics.
Teaching
For my current and past courses, please see the P&E intranet.

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Practical Philosophy
Publications
2022
Messerli, Michael; Fink, Julian; Reuter, Kevin
The varying rationality of weakness of the will : an empirical investigation and its challenges ...
in Synthese volume 200 (2022)
doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03807-7 ...
Fink, Julian
What (In)coherence Is Not
in Grazer Philosophische Studien volume 99 (2022) issue 2. - page 125-134
https://brill.com/view/journals/gps/99/2/article-p ...
2019
Fink, Julian; Schubert, Daniel
The Morality of Price/Quality and Ethical Consumerism
in Res Publica volume 25 (2019) issue 3. - page 425-438
doi:10.1007/s11158-018-9402-9 ...
2018
Fink, Julian
Die Rationalität eingefrorener Konflikte
in Spektrum volume 14 (2018) issue 2. - page 46-49
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-4 ...
Fink, Julian
The Property of Rationality : A Guide to What Rationality Requires?
in Philosophical Studies volume 175 (2018) issue 1. - page 117-140
doi:10.1007/s11098-017-0858-9 ...
2016
Fink, Julian
Erratum To: The Ladder of Rationality
in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice volume 19 (2016) issue 3. - page 793
doi:10.1007/s10677-016-9690-0 ...
Fink, Julian
The Ladder of Rationality
in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice volume 19 (2016) issue 3. - page 787-791
doi:10.1007/s10677-015-9642-0 ...
Fink, Julian
Normative Lessons for the Scope Debate of Rational Requirements
in Balkan Journal of Philosophy volume 8 (2016) issue 2. - page 99-106
2014
Fink, Julian
A Constitutive Account of "Rationality Requires"
in Erkenntnis volume 79 (2014) issue 4. - page 909-941
doi:10.1007/s10670-013-9591-8 ...
2014
Rechtfertigungen des Unrechts : Das Rechtsdenken Im Nationalsozialismus in Originaltexten
publ: Pauer-Studer, Herlinde; Fink, Julian
Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2014 . - (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; 2043)
Fink, Julian; Pauer-Studer, Herlinde
Vorwort
Rechtfertigungen des Unrechts : Das Rechtsdenken im Nationalsozialismus in Originaltexten
Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2014. - page 9-13 . - (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; 2043)
2013
Fink, Julian
Editorial
in Organon F volume 20 (2013) issue 4. - page 422-424
http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2013/ ...
Fink, Julian
What is (Correct) Practical Reasoning?
in Acta Analytica volume 28 (2013) issue 4. - page 471-482
doi:10.1007/s12136-013-0191-7 ...
2012
Fink, Julian
The Function of Normative Process-Requirements
in Dialectica volume 66 (2012) issue 1. - page 115-136
doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2012.01292.x ...
Benson, Carolyn; Fink, Julian
Legal Oughts, Normative Transmission, and the Nazi Use of Analogy
in Jurisprudence volume 3 (2012) issue 2. - page 445-463
doi:10.5235/Jurisprudence.3.2.341 ...
Benson, Carolyn; Fink, Julian
New Perspectives on Nazi Law
in Jurisprudence volume 3 (2012) issue 2. - page 341-346
doi:10.5235/Jurisprudence.3.2.341 ...
2011
Fink, Julian
Are All Actions Movements of the Agent's Body?
in Kriterion volume 24 (2011) issue 1. - page 52-64
http://www.kriterion-journal-of-philosophy.org/kri ...
Fink, Julian
Are There Process-Requirements of Rationality?
in Organon F volume 18 (2011) issue 4. - page 475-487
http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2011/ ...
2010
Fink, Julian
Asymmetry, Scope, and Rational Consistency
in Croatian Journal of Philosophy volume 10 (2010) issue 2. - page 109-130
doi:croatjphil20101028 ...
2009
Fink, Julian
Do We Have Reasons to Do as We Believe We Ought to Do?
Practical Rationality : Intentionality, Normativity and Reflexivity
Aranguren : Ziur Navarra, 2009. - page 65-79
2007
Fink, Julian
Is the Right Prior to the Good?
in South African Journal of Philosophy volume 26 (2007) issue 2. - page 143-149
doi:10.4314/sajpem.v26i2.31469 ...
2005
Fink, Julian
reviewed by: Peacocke, Christopher: The Realm of Reason. Oxford, 2004
Meixner, Uwe: Focus: history of epistemology
in volume 8 (2005)

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Practical Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Julian Fink
Professor
Office
Building GW II, room 1.01
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95447 Bayreuth
Postal address
Universität Bayreuth
Institut für Philosophie
95440 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4124
E-mail: Julian.Fink@uni-bayreuth.de