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, Germany. He is also a Guest Professor in PPE at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and an External Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria. Julian is also an Honorary Member of the Academic Senate of the Albanian University, Tirana.

Functions

• Co-Director of the Philosophy-&-Economics (P&E) MA Programme
  (with Prof Hartmut Egger | Economics)
  
• Chair of the P&E MA Examination Board
• Coordinator of the PPE Charles University Prague – University of Bayreuth
  BA Double Degree Programme
  
• Coordinator of the Ukrainian Catholic University – University of Bayreuth Erasmus+ (KA107) Faculty/Staff/Student Exchange
• Coordinator of the P&E MA Erasmus Student Exchange

Biography

Julian earned his master’s (BPhil, 2005) and doctorate (DPhil, 2010) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, under the supervision of John Broome and Krister Bykvist. He also obtained his BA (2003) in P&E from Bayreuth (where he was 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), and Lecturer in P&E at Bayreuth (2013-14), ERC Research Fellow at the University of Vienna (2010-13) and Fellow of the Norwegian Research Council at the CSMN at the University of Oslo (2009-10). Julian also held Guest Professorships at the Universities of Vienna (2016) and Graz (2014), along with 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. Illiberal Democracy.

Publications

Please see: Philpapers

Teaching

P&E International Teaching  
Charles University, Prague: P&E Classics: Morality, Rationality, Markets, Justice.
Albanian University, Tirana: P&E MA Integrative Seminar: The Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Post-Communist Albania.  

P&E Lecture Courses
Introduction to Philosophical Analysis.
Business Ethics & Social Entrepreneurship.

P&E Seminars
The Philosophy, Politics & Economics of the Illiberal Democracy.
Rationality, Reasons & Normativity.
Non-Ordinary Consciousness: Philosophy & Epistemology.

For my current and past courses, please see the P&E intranet.

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Practical Philosophy

Publications

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