Christine Tiefensee
Professor of Philosophy • Professor
Professor of Philosophy
Christine Tiefensee is Professor of Philosophy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where she also serves as Academic Director of the B.Sc. programme Management, Philosophy & Economics (MPE).
She holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Her primary research focuses on the foundations of normativity, with related interests at the intersection of philosophy, political science and theories of rationality. Her work has appeared in leading international journals, including Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Analysis, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
She is an Associate Editor for Analysis, a member of the editorial panel for Thought, and serves on selection committees for national and international research awards. From 2016 to 2022, she was Vice President of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).
Together with Professor Sebastian Köhler and Professor Derek Baker, she co-organises the annual FrankMeta and MetaFS conference series.
In 2018, she received the Frankfurt School Teaching Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching performance.
For more information, please visit Christine's personal website.
She holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Her primary research focuses on the foundations of normativity, with related interests at the intersection of philosophy, political science and theories of rationality. Her work has appeared in leading international journals, including Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Analysis, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
She is an Associate Editor for Analysis, a member of the editorial panel for Thought, and serves on selection committees for national and international research awards. From 2016 to 2022, she was Vice President of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).
Together with Professor Sebastian Köhler and Professor Derek Baker, she co-organises the annual FrankMeta and MetaFS conference series.
In 2018, she received the Frankfurt School Teaching Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching performance.
For more information, please visit Christine's personal website.
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PUBLICATIONS
Tiefensee, C., 2023. Through thick and thin: seamless metaconceptualism, Synthese Vol. 201(Article 59).
Tiefensee, C., Wheeler, G., 2022. Error, Consistency and Triviality, Noûs Vol. 56(3), pp. 602-618.
Tiefensee, C., 2022. Indeterminacy and Collective Harms, Philosophical Studies Vol. 179(11), pp. 3307-3324.
Tiefensee, C., Wheeler, G., 2022. Why Formal Objections to the Error Theory are Sound, Analysis Vol. 82(4), pp. 608-616.
Tiefensee, C., 2020. Ought and Error, Journal of Philosophy Vol. 117(2), pp. 96-114.
Tiefensee, C., 2019. Relaxing about Moral Truths, Ergo Vol. 6(31), pp. 869-890.
Tiefensee, C., 2019. What's Wrong with Relaxing?, Journal of Moral Philosophy Vol. 16, pp. 725-742.
Tiefensee, C., 2018. Saving which Differences?: Creeping Minimalism and Disagreement, Philosophical Studies.
Tiefensee, C., 2016. Inferentialist Metaethics, Bifurcations and Ontological Commitment, Philosophical Studies Vol. 173(9), pp. 2437-2459.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015. Of Animals, Robots and Men, Historical Social Research Vol. 40(4), pp. 70-91.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015. Rationalität und Normativität, Zeitschrift für politische Theorie Jg. 6(1), pp. 19-37.
Tiefensee, C., 2014. Expressivism, Anti-Archimedeanism and Supervenience, Res Publica Vol. 20(2), pp. 163-181.
Tiefensee, C., Wheeler, G., 2022. Error, Consistency and Triviality, Noûs Vol. 56(3), pp. 602-618.
Tiefensee, C., 2022. Indeterminacy and Collective Harms, Philosophical Studies Vol. 179(11), pp. 3307-3324.
Tiefensee, C., Wheeler, G., 2022. Why Formal Objections to the Error Theory are Sound, Analysis Vol. 82(4), pp. 608-616.
Tiefensee, C., 2020. Ought and Error, Journal of Philosophy Vol. 117(2), pp. 96-114.
Tiefensee, C., 2019. Relaxing about Moral Truths, Ergo Vol. 6(31), pp. 869-890.
Tiefensee, C., 2019. What's Wrong with Relaxing?, Journal of Moral Philosophy Vol. 16, pp. 725-742.
Tiefensee, C., 2018. Saving which Differences?: Creeping Minimalism and Disagreement, Philosophical Studies.
Tiefensee, C., 2016. Inferentialist Metaethics, Bifurcations and Ontological Commitment, Philosophical Studies Vol. 173(9), pp. 2437-2459.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015. Of Animals, Robots and Men, Historical Social Research Vol. 40(4), pp. 70-91.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015. Rationalität und Normativität, Zeitschrift für politische Theorie Jg. 6(1), pp. 19-37.
Tiefensee, C., 2014. Expressivism, Anti-Archimedeanism and Supervenience, Res Publica Vol. 20(2), pp. 163-181.
Tiefensee, C., 2015, Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate about Rational Choice Rests on a Mistake, in: Uskali Mäki, Ionnis Votsis, Stéphanie Ruphy, Gerhard Schurz (eds): Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science, Cham: Springer, pp. 99-109.
Tiefensee, C., 2008. Moral Realism: a Critical Analysis of Metaethical Naturalism, Marburg: Tectum-Verl. (Mainz, Univ., Diss., 2005.)
Tiefensee, C., 2022, Metasemantics, Moral Realism and Moral Doctrines, in: Visa AJ Kurki, Mark McBride (eds): Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer, 1. Ed., Oxford: Oxford University Pr., pp. 189-204.
Tiefensee, C., 2021, Metasemantics for the Relaxed, in: Russ Shafer-Landau (ed): Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 16, Oxford: Oxford University Pr., pp. 108-133.
Tiefensee, C., 2019, Why making no difference makes no moral difference, in: Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt, Jürgen Sirsch (eds): Demokratie und Entscheidung : Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie, Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 231-244.
Tiefensee, C., 2018, Error-Theory, Relaxation and Inferentialism, in: Diego E. Machuca (ed): Moral Skepticism : New Essays, New York [u.a.]: Routledge, pp. 49-70.
Tiefensee, C., 2016, Quasi-Realismus, in: Markus Ruether (ed): Grundkurs Metaethik, Münster: Mentis, pp. 81-90.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015, Auf die Couch!: Beziehungsprobleme zwischen Rational Choice und Politischer Psychologie, in: Thorsten Faas, Cornelia Frank, Harald Schoen (eds): Politische Psychologie, 1. Aufl., Wiesbaden: Verl. für Sozialwiss., pp. 506-527.
Tiefensee, C., 2021, Metasemantics for the Relaxed, in: Russ Shafer-Landau (ed): Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 16, Oxford: Oxford University Pr., pp. 108-133.
Tiefensee, C., 2019, Why making no difference makes no moral difference, in: Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt, Jürgen Sirsch (eds): Demokratie und Entscheidung : Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie, Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 231-244.
Tiefensee, C., 2018, Error-Theory, Relaxation and Inferentialism, in: Diego E. Machuca (ed): Moral Skepticism : New Essays, New York [u.a.]: Routledge, pp. 49-70.
Tiefensee, C., 2016, Quasi-Realismus, in: Markus Ruether (ed): Grundkurs Metaethik, Münster: Mentis, pp. 81-90.
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C., 2015, Auf die Couch!: Beziehungsprobleme zwischen Rational Choice und Politischer Psychologie, in: Thorsten Faas, Cornelia Frank, Harald Schoen (eds): Politische Psychologie, 1. Aufl., Wiesbaden: Verl. für Sozialwiss., pp. 506-527.
Tiefensee, C.
Rationality, Reasons and Inferentialism
Tiefensee, C.
Find the Mistake: in Search of a Systematic Approach to Anti-Archimedeanism
Tiefensee, C.
Rationality, Reasons, and Inferentialism
Tiefensee, C.
A Dilemma for Metaethical Inferentialists
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C.
Auf die Couch!: Beziehungsprobleme zwischen Rational Choice und Politischer Psychologie
Tiefensee, C.
How to be an anti-Archimedean
Tiefensee, C.
Inferentialist Metaethics and its Problems
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C.
Von Menschen, Tieren und Robotern
Tiefensee, C.
Explanation, Rationality and Normativity
Tiefensee, C.
Minimalism and the Moral Conversion of Metaethics
Tiefensee, C.
How To Defend Expressivism against anti-Archimedeanism
Tiefensee, C.
Minimal Belief, Normativity of Thought and Quasi-Realist Expressivism
Rationality, Reasons and Inferentialism
| The Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, 90th Joint Session, 2016, Cardiff. |
Tiefensee, C.
Find the Mistake: in Search of a Systematic Approach to Anti-Archimedeanism
| Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie e.V., GAP.9 Colloquium on Anti-Archimedeanism, 2015, Osnabrück. |
Tiefensee, C.
Rationality, Reasons, and Inferentialism
| Institute of Philosophy Univ. of Berne, Workshop: Making it Normative - Do Norms, Requirements, and Rules Give Us Reasons?, 2015, Bern. |
Tiefensee, C.
A Dilemma for Metaethical Inferentialists
| Univ. des Saarlandes, Workshop on Normativity and Meaning, 2014, Saarbrücken. |
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C.
Auf die Couch!: Beziehungsprobleme zwischen Rational Choice und Politischer Psychologie
| Univ. Mainz, Authors' Conference PVS Sonderheft 2015, 2014, Mainz. |
Tiefensee, C.
How to be an anti-Archimedean
| Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, 88th Joint Session, 2014, Cambridge. |
Tiefensee, C.
Inferentialist Metaethics and its Problems
| Dt. Gesellschaft für Philosophie, 23. Dt. Kongress für Philosophie, 2014, Münster. |
Marx, J., Tiefensee, C.
Von Menschen, Tieren und Robotern
| Dt. Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Spring Conference of the DVPW Political Theory Section, 2014, Hamburg. |
Tiefensee, C.
Explanation, Rationality and Normativity
| Univ. of Venice, The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences and The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, 1st Joint European/American Conference, 2013, Venedig. | |
| European Philosophy of Science Association, 4th Conference, 2013, Helsinki. |
Tiefensee, C.
Minimalism and the Moral Conversion of Metaethics
| Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, 87th Joint Session, 2013, Exeter. |
Tiefensee, C.
How To Defend Expressivism against anti-Archimedeanism
| Society for Analytic Philosophy, 8th International Conference, 2012, Konstanz. (Poster) |
Tiefensee, C.
Minimal Belief, Normativity of Thought and Quasi-Realist Expressivism
| Univ. of Southern Denmark, International Conference: The Nature of Belief - The Ontology of Doxastic Attitudes, 2010, Odense. |
Tiefensee, C.
Moral Error-Theory: externer Skeptizismus?, Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, Institutskolloquium Philosophie, 2017/01/25, Berlin.
Tiefensee, C.
An Inferentialist Take on the Normativity of Rationality, Univ. of Stirling, Stirling Visiting Speakers' Seminar, 2016/11/17, Stirling.
Tiefensee, C.
Freiheit für Füchse, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 10. Gummersbacher Kolloquium "Dimensionen der Freiheit", 01.-03.07.2015, Gummersbach.
Tiefensee, C.
A Dilemma for Metaethical Inferentialists, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Ethics, 2014/04/09, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C.
Explanation, Rationality and Normativity, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2014/03/05, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C., Klein, D.
Moral Facts?, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Logic and Language, 2014/04/15, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C.
The Moral Belief Problem, Faculty of Philosophy, Univ. of Cambridge, Faculty Colloquium, 2009/11/06, Cambridge.
Tiefensee, C.
A Fast-Track Route to Cognitivism?, Trinity College, Arts & Humanities Symposium, 2008/11/16, Cambridge.
Tiefensee, C.
Deflationary Expressivism, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, 2007/11/16, Cambridge.
Moral Error-Theory: externer Skeptizismus?, Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, Institutskolloquium Philosophie, 2017/01/25, Berlin.
Tiefensee, C.
An Inferentialist Take on the Normativity of Rationality, Univ. of Stirling, Stirling Visiting Speakers' Seminar, 2016/11/17, Stirling.
Tiefensee, C.
Freiheit für Füchse, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 10. Gummersbacher Kolloquium "Dimensionen der Freiheit", 01.-03.07.2015, Gummersbach.
Tiefensee, C.
A Dilemma for Metaethical Inferentialists, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Ethics, 2014/04/09, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C.
Explanation, Rationality and Normativity, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2014/03/05, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C., Klein, D.
Moral Facts?, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Research Seminar in Logic and Language, 2014/04/15, Tilburg.
Tiefensee, C.
The Moral Belief Problem, Faculty of Philosophy, Univ. of Cambridge, Faculty Colloquium, 2009/11/06, Cambridge.
Tiefensee, C.
A Fast-Track Route to Cognitivism?, Trinity College, Arts & Humanities Symposium, 2008/11/16, Cambridge.
Tiefensee, C.
Deflationary Expressivism, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, 2007/11/16, Cambridge.
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Room
A5.09