Prof. Dr. Sabine Döring (Honorary Professor)

• theory of ethics with a focus on philosophy of emotions
• normative ethics
• moral psychology
• value theory
• theory of rationality
• action theory
• philosophy of mind
• aesthetics and philosophy of art
• philosophy and literature

research project Religious Feelings / Religiöse Gefühle as part of the Cluster Initiative Analytic Theology (Innovative Research at the Intersection of Analytic Philosophy and Theology)

Monographs

Ästhetische Erfahrung als Erkenntnis des Ethischen: Die Kunsttheorie Robert Musils und die analytische Philosophie. Paderborn: mentis 1999 (as part of the series Explicatio, edited by Harald Fricke and Gottfried Gabriel).

Emotions, Morality, and Agency. Monograph in progress

Edited Volumes

Beyond Perceptualism (with Anika Lutz). Special Issue of the journal Dialectica, 2015.

Gut und schön? Die neue Moralismusdebatte am Beispiel Dostoevskijs (with Catrin Misselhorn, Schamma Schahadat and Irina Wutsdorff). Paderborn: Fink (as part of the series Ethik – Text – Kultur), 2014.

Philosophie der Gefühle. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2009. (Reviews in FAZ and Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie).

Perspectives on Emotional Experience (with Rainer Reisenzein). Special Issue of Emotion Review, the journal of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Volume 1, Nr. 3, July 2009.

Die Moralität der Gefühle (with Verena Mayer). Special Issue of Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Volume 4, Berlin: Akademie 2002.

Articles

Desires without Guises: Why We Need Not Value What We Want (with Bahadir Eker). In: The Nature of Desire, edited by Julien Deonna & Federico Lauria, Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press)

Expressing Emotions: From Action to Art. In: Art, Mind, and Narrative: Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie, edited by Julian Dodd, Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press)

What's Wrong with Recalcitrant Emotions? From Irrationality to Challenge of Agential Identity. In: dialectica 69 (2015), 381-402.

What Is an Emotion? Musil’s Adverbial Theory. In: The Monist 97 (2014), 47-65.

Why Recalcitrant Emotions Are Not Irrational. In: Emotion & Value, edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014, 124-136.

Being Worthy of Happiness. Towards a Kantian Appreciation of Our Finite Nature (with Eva-Maria Düringer). In: Philosophical Topics 41 (2013), 143-158.

What a Difference Emotions Make. In: Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Action, edited by Tim O’Connor and Constantine Sandis, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2010, 191-200.

Why Be Emotional? In: Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, edited by Peter Goldie, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010, 283-302.

Seeing What to Do: Affective Perception and Rational Motivation. In: dialectica 61 (2007), 363-394.

Explaining Action by Emotion. In: The Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003), 214-230.

Tübingen Masterclass in Practical Philosophy with John Broome 2016

DFG-Project Emotionen und Werte ('Emotions and Value') (2011 to 2014); project team member: Anika Lutz, M.A.

conferences held as part of this project:

November 8th to 10th 2012 Emotion and Perception

November 21st to 23rd 2013 Values

Tübingen Working Group for Practical Philosophy

May 28th to 30th 2009: first conference with guest Michael Smith (Princeton University).

June 27th to 29th 2010: second conference with guest T.M. Scanlon (Harvard University).

June 2nd to 5th 2011: third conference with guest Michael Bratman (Stanford University).

May 23rd to 25th 2013: fourth conference with guests Michael Zimmerman (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Dietmar von der Pfordten (Georg-August-University Göttingen).