Christian Wendelborn

I am currently working as a research assistant in the joint research project DATABLIC at the Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ -- German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany.

I am also a post-graduate assistant and lecturer at the Department for Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany and holding a teaching assignement at the Philosophy Department of the University Mannheim.

On 16 June 2015 I finished my graduation with my PhD-thesis in philosophy on Metaethical Relativism (published in October 2016 at DeGruyter). Until February 2014, I worked as an graduate assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie at the Saarland University (Prof. Ulla Wessels and Prof. Christoph Fehige).

Currently I am mainly working on different topics in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy: The Ethics of Data Sharing and Data Stewardship; Free Speech and Academic Freedom; Public Good Interpretations of Public Health, Educational Justice 

My PhD thesis is about Metaethical Relativism. I investigate different arguments against objectivist conceptions of morality and for the idea that moral judgements are in some (interesting) way relative. My main concern is the plausibility and metaethical adequacy of the different relativist (and contextualist) conceptions that are salient in the literature. What conception or which notion of relativism is the most compelling with regard to the relevant explanatory aims of any metaethical theory?