The Ethics of Relationships

The Ethics of Relationships analyses many different kinds of interpersonal connections to provide an in-depth understanding of the distinct nature and value of relationships. It also highlights the dark sides of relationships and their distinct moral intricacies.

Monika Betzler holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. She has also held visiting positions at Lund University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Vienna University, Tulane University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Before joining the department at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Betzler was Full Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Bern. She specializes in moral psychology, normative ethics, and normativity more generally. She is currently working on the ethics of personal relationships, the normative significance of personal projects, and empathy as a normative capacity. Her most recent publications have appeared in The Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, the Journal for Applied Philosophy, and The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
Jörg Löschke holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He has taught at the University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Bern, and Bonn University. Löschke has previously held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Washington, and Florida State University. His research focuses on normative ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of normativity. At present, he is working on the ethics of personal relationships, relationships with AI, and on the consequentialism/non-consequentialism divide. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophical Studies, European Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.