Dr. Eline Gerritsen

Photo: Gerritsen/Uni Hamburg

Postdoctoral researcher: Funding program „Postdoctoral Fellowships“ within the Excellence Strategy (Universität Hamburg)

Practical Philosophy

Address

University of Hamburg

Faculty of Humanities

Institute of Philosophy

Von-Melle-Park 6, Postbox #4

20146 Hamburg

Office

Philosophenturm

Room: C12008

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-1730

Email: eline.gerritsen"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Curriculum Vitae

2022 – present	Postdoctoral researcher: Funding program “Postdoctoral Fellowships” within the Excellence Strategy (Universität Hamburg)
2017 – 2022	PhD in Philosophy, University of St Andrews, University of Stirling & University of Groningen Thesis: “Demystifying Normativity: Morality, Error Theory, and the Authority of Norms” Supervisors: Prof Bart Streumer & Dr Kent Hurtig
Autumn 2021	Contract lecturer at University of Bayreuth (on MA Philosophy & Economics)
February – July 2020	Research internship at the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, funded by Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities
2018 - 2019	Tutor in Philosophy at University of St Andrews & University of Stirling
2016 – 2017	MLitt in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, University of St Andrews & University of Stirling Dissertation: “Morality as a Fiction or Agreement: Joyce versus Gauthier”
2013 – 2016	BA in Philosophy, Leiden University
Autumn 2015	Visiting student at University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy

Areas of research

Metaethics
Normativity
Social norms

Project: “The Normativity of Conventional Norms”

Informal conventional norms regulate many aspects of our behaviour. They shape our individual and collective actions and can be seen as the glue of society. At the same time, these norms can function to maintain an unjust status quo and prevent social progress. It is therefore important to examine to what extent and under what conditions conventional norms form legitimate restrictions on our actions. An account of the normative status of the social rules we live under will both build on and contribute to a fundamental theory of our reasons for action. This project provides a philosophical investigation of conventional norms in two parts. The first aim is to examine whether and how conventional norms provide reasons for action. This research will include a thorough interdisciplinary analysis of the nature of these norms and their role in solving collective action problems. The second aim is to use these insights to develop a comprehensive theory of normativity in general. This project contributes to the University’s emerging research field ‘Grounds, Causes, Reasons’.

Publications

Gerritsen, E., (2023) “The Second Revolution of Moral Fictionalism”, Ergo 9: 20. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2276