Tobias Hainz, M. A.

Education

Since September 2010: PhD Student in Philosophy (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Dissertation on The Ethical Evaluation of Radical Life Extension
Member of the Graduate School Ageing: Cultural Concepts and Practical Realisations
Scholarship granted by the "Gründerstiftung zur Förderung von Forschung und wissenschaftlichem Nachwuchs an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf"

October 2004 – February 2010: Magister Artium (M. A.) in German Literature, Philosophy and Sociology (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Thesis on Künstliche Menschen – natürliche Wünsche. Inszenierung bioethischer Probleme in Ridley Scotts „Blade Runner“ [Artificial Humans – Natural Wishes. The Depiction of Bioethical Problems in Ridley Scottʼs „Blade Runner“]

Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics, especially Bioethics; Theoretical Ethics; Metaphysics; Social Ontology 

Publication

• Review of: Knell, Sebastian/Weber, Marcel: Menschliches Leben. Berlin/New York 2009. In: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Vol. 65 (2011), Issue 3, pp. 440–444. 

Conference Participations

• Marsilius Winter School „The (non)transparent human being. How deep into the person can we look?“ (February 2011, Heidelberg). Talk given on „Personale Persistenz im Kontext radikaler Lebensverlängerung“ [„Personal Persistence in the Context of Radical Life Extension“]
• Summer School „Komplexe Argumentation rekonstruieren, kartieren und bewerten“ [„Reconstructing, Mapping and Evaluating Complex Argumentation“] (August 2011, Bronnbach Monastery). Talk given on „Die Herausbildung kollektiver Interessen“ [„The Emergence of Collective Interests“] 
• Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (September 2011, Salzburg). Talk given on „Die Relevanz kollektiver Interessen für die angewandte Ethik“ [„The Relevance of Collective Interests for Applied Ethics“]
• Workshop „Die Dynamik der Moral“ [„The Dynamics of Morality“] (September 2011, Jena). Talk given on „Kann es kollektive Interessen geben?“ [„Can There Be Collective Interests?“]

Contact Information 
E-Mail: Tobias.Hainz (at) uni-duesseldorf.de
Full CV and full contact details available upon request