Ulrike Heuer (heuer-u)

u.heuer(at)ucl.ac.uk

Ulrike Heuer has received her PhD from the Free University in Berlin. Before coming to UCL, she was an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, and before that an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She also held fixed term positions at Columbia University, and Barnard College, and was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Institute for Ethics at Harvard University, as well as at Murphy Institute at Tulane University, and most recently she has been a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Vienna as part of the ERC advanced project "Distortions of Normativity".

This year, I’m teaching Responsibility, Luck and Excuses (for third year undergraduates and postgraduates, Thesis Prep (for second year MPhil students) and a research seminar on practical reasons and rationality.

My contributions to Philosophie.ch

Verantwortung, wenn alles schief geht

Wofür sind wir verantwortlich? Für unser Handeln, oder genauer: für unser absichtliches Handeln, so eine naheliegende Antwort.

Bibliography

Heuer, Ulrike. 1997. “Zum Begriff der moralischen Motivation.” in Analyomen 2. Volume III: Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, Miscellanea, edited by Georg Meggle, pp. 243–250. Perspektiven der analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy n. 18. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Heuer, Ulrike. 1999. “Sind Wünsche Handlungsgründe?” Analyse & Kritik 21(1): 1–24.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2001. Gründe und Motive. Über Humesche Theorien praktischer Vernunft. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2004a. “Reasons for Actions and Desires.” Philosophical Studies 121(1): 43–63.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2004b. “Raz on Values and Reasons.” in Reason and Value. Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, edited by Richard Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael A. Smith, pp. 129–152. New York: Oxford University Press.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2010. “Reasons and Impossibility.” Philosophical Studies 147(2): 235–246, doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9285-2.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2011a. “The Paradox of Deontology, Revisited.” in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, volume I, edited by Mark Timmons, pp. 236–267. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693269.001.0001.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2011b. “Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value.” in New Waves in Metaethics, edited by Michael Sean Brady, pp. 166–184. New Waves in Philosophy. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, doi:10.1057/9780230294899.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2012a. “Promising – Part 1.” Philosophy Compass 7(12): 832–841, doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00524.x.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2012b. “Promising – Part 2.” Philosophy Compass 7(12): 842–851.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2012c. “Thick Concepts and Internal Reasons.” in Luck, Value, and Commitment. Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams, edited by Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang, pp. 219–246. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599325.001.0001.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2014. “Intentions and the Reasons for which We Act.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114(3): 291–315.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2016. “Verantwortung, wenn alles schief geht.” Philosophie.ch, the Swiss Portal for Philosophy, https://www.philosophie.ch/de/2016-11-14-heuer.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2018a. “The Relevance of the Wrong Kind of Reasons.” in Normativity: Epistemic and Practical, edited by Conor McHugh, Jonathan Way, and Daniel Whiting, pp. 47–67. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198758709.001.0001.

Heuer, Ulrike. 2018b. “Reasons to Intend.” in The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, edited by Daniel Star, pp. 865–890. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.001.0001.

Heuer, Ulrike and Lang, Gerald, eds. 2012a. Luck, Value, and Commitment. Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599325.001.0001.

Heuer, Ulrike and Lang, Gerald. 2012b. “Introduction.” in Luck, Value, and Commitment. Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams, edited by Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang, pp. 1–17. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599325.001.0001.