Sebastian Köhler

Associate Professor für Philosophie • Professor/-in

Associate Professor für Philosophie

Sebastian Köhler ist Associate Professor für Philosophie an der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Dort lehrt er im Bachelor in Management, Philosophy, and Economics, im Bachelor in Computational Business Analytics und im Master of Applied Data Science. Er ist ebenfalls der Organisator des FS Philosophy Forums an der Frankfurt School. Bevor er zur Frankfurt School kam, war Köhler Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Duisburg-Essen und Lecturer an der Princeton University. Ein großer Teil von Köhlers bisheriger Forschung konzentriert sich auf metaethische Fragen rund um Normativität, an der Schnittstelle zur Philosophie des Geistes und der Sprachphilosophie. Außerdem beschäftigt sich Köhler derzeit mit ethischen Fragen bezogen auf neue Informationstechnologien. Köhlers Forschung wurde in international führenden Fachzeitschriften wie The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Erkenntnis und Ratio veröffentlicht.

Sebastian Köhler hat an der University of Edinburgh in Philosophie promoviert und an der Universität Bielefeld, der London School of Economics und der University of Cambridge studiert.

Computational Science & Philosophy Department
Professor/-in
Fakultät

VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN

Köhler, S., 2025. Expressivism, but at a Whole Other Level, Erkenntnis. An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy Vol. 90, S. 367-388.

Köhler, S., 2025. Good Classification Matters: Conceptual Engineering in Data Science, Synthese Vol. 205(43).

Köhler, S., Mecacci, G., Veluwenkamp, H., 2025. Responsibly Engineering "Control", American Philosophical Quarterly. (forthcoming)

Köhler, S., Mecacci, G., Veluwenkamp, H., 2025. Responsibly Engineering 'Control', American Philosophical Quarterly. (forthcoming)

Köhler, S., 2025. Saving Conceptual Role Expressivism from Defect, Journal of Philosophy. (forthcoming)

Köhler, S., Veluwenkamp, H., 2024. Conceptual Engineering: For What Matters, Mind Vol. 133(530), S. 400-427.

Köhler, S., 2024. The Responses That Matter, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 105(1), S. 33-49.

Köhler, S., 2023. Can We Have Moral Status for Robots on the Cheap?, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy Vol. 24(1), S. 119-140.

Köhler, S., 2023. Expressivism, but at a Whole Other Level, Erkenntnis. An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy.

Köhler, S., 2023. What is (Neo-)Pragmatists' Function?, Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 101(3), S. 653-669.

Himmelreich, J., Köhler, S., 2022. Responsible AI Through Conceptual Engineering, Philosophy & Technology Vol. 35(60).

Köhler, S., 2021. How to Have Your Quasi-Cake and Quasi-Eat it Too, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 51(3), S. 204-220.

Köhler, S., 2021. Normative disagreement: a functional account for inferentialists, Philosophical Studies Vol. 178, S. 617-637.

Ferguson, B., Köhler, S., 2020. Betterness of permissibility, Philosophical Studies Vol. 177, S. 2451-2469.

Boult, C., Köhler, S., 2020. Epistemic Judgement and Motivation, Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 70(281), S. 738-758.

Köhler, S., 2020. Instrumental Robots, Science and Engineering Ethics Vol. 26, S. 3121-3141.

Köhler, S., 2019. Disagreeing about who we are, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

Köhler, S., 2018. Expressivism, Meaning, and All That, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 48(3-4), S. 337-356.

Köhler, S., 2018. Moral Responsibility Without Personal Identity?, Erkenntnis. An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy.

Köhler, S., 2017. Expressivism, Belief, and All That, Journal of Philosophy Vol. 114(4), S. 189-207.

Köhler, S., 2015. What is the Problem with Fundamental Moral Error?, Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 93(1), S. 161-165.

Köhler, S., 2014. Expressivism and Mind-Dependence: Distinct Existences, Journal of Moral Philosophy Vol. 11(6), S. 750-764.

Köhler, S., 2013. Do Expressivists have an Attitude Problem?, Ethics Vol. 123(3), S. 479-507.

Köhler, S., Ridge, M., 2013. Revolutionary Expressivism, Ratio Vol. 26(4), S. 428-449.

Köhler, S., 2012. Expressivism, Subjectivism and Moral Disagreement, Thought Vol. 1(1), S. 71-78.

Köhler, S., 2012. The Frege-Geach Objection to Expressivism: Structurally Answered, Discussion Note, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (July 2012).

Köhler, S., 2010. Thought Experiments, Disagreement and Moral Realism, Grazer Philosophische Studien Vol. 80(1), S. 245-252.

Köhler, S., 2014. Beyond Frege-Geach: Neglected Problems For Expressivism, Diss., Edingburgh, Univ.

Guido Löhr, Jeroen Hopster, Sebastian Köhler, Herman Veluwenkamp (Hrsg.), 2024. Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering: Special Issue of Ethics and Information Technology.

Köhler, S., Roughley, N., Sauer, H., 2018, Technologically blurred accountability?: technology, responsibility gaps and the robustness of our everyday conceptual scheme, in: Cornelia Ulbert, Peter Finkenbusch, Elena Sondermann, Tobias Debiel (Hrsg.): Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility, New York [u.a.]: Routledge, S. 51-67.

Ridge, M., Köhler, S., 2015, Metaethical theories, hybrid, in: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, London: Routledge.