CURRICULUM VITAE DR. TATJANA VIŠAK

20.12. 2017

Home: Kirchstraße 60 69221 Dossenheim Tel.: (+49) (6221) 8 68 89 69 E-Mail: tatjana.visak@gmail.com Website: www.tatjanavisak.com

University: Mannheim University Department of Philosophy and Business Ethics 68131 Mannheim Tel.: (+49) (621) 1 81 25 89

Personal Data: Date of birth: 12.12.74 Place of birth: Gießen, Germany Nationality: German Marital status: married, two children (2004/2006)

EDUCATION

May 2011

Sept. 1994

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April 2000

Utrecht University, e Netherlands Leiden University, e Netherlands

PhD in Ethics MSc Political Sciences with focus on Political Philosophy

Sept. 1993 – June 1994 Institut Parisien, France

French Language (diploma “perfectionnement II”), Philosophy and Art

July 1993 eo-Koch Schule Grünberg, Germany

Abitur (High School Diploma)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sept. 2013 – present Mannheim University, Germany

Wissenschaliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) Prof. Gesang, Phil-osophy and Business Ethics

July 2013 – Aug. 2015 Saarland University, Germany

Wissenschaliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) Prof. Fehige / Prof. Wessels, Practical Philosophy

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July 2012 – July 2013 Monash University, Australia

Lecturer (B), Centre for Human Bioethics

Aug. 2011 – Aug. 2012 Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Postdoc, Ethics Institute

Jan. 2011 – Jan. 2012 Leiden University, the Netherlands

Lecturer, Philosophy Department

Jan. 2011 – Aug. 2011 International School of Philosophy, the Nether-lands

Program organizer

Sept. 2005 – Dec. 2010 Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Junior researcher/ lecturer, Ethics Institute (PhD May 2011)

Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2003 Erasmus University, the Netherlands

Researcher, Ethics Depart-ment of the Erasmus Medical Center

Aug. 2000 – Sept. 2005 Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Junior researcher/ lecturer, Ethics Institute

Aug. 1999 – Aug. 2000 Leiden University, the Netherlands

Junior researcher (bursary), Department of Political Sciences

Sept. 1997 – Sept. 1998 Leiden University, the Netherlands

Student-Assistant, Center for Environmental Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Books • (2013). Killing Happy Animals. Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

Edited volumes • (2016). Co-edited with Robert Garner, e Ethics of Killing Animals. Oxford

University Press, New York.

Refereed Journal Articles • (forthcoming). “Engineering Life Expectancy and Non-Identity Cases”, in Journal

of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. • (2017). “Understanding Meaning of Life In Terms Of Reasons For Action”, in

Journal of Value Inquiry (published online 21 March 2017). • (2017). “Preventing the Suffering of Free-Living Animals: Should Animal

Advocates Begin the Killing?”, in Journal of Animal Ethics 7 (1), 78–95.

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• (2015). “Sacrifices of Self are Prudential Harms: A Reply to Carbonell”, in Journal of Ethics 19 (2), 219–229.

• (2013). Co-authored with J. Balcombe. “e Applicability of the Self-fulfilment Account of Welfare to Non-human Animals, Babies and Mentally Disabled Humans”, in: Philosophy and Public Policy 31 (2).

• (2013). “Kommentar zu Wessels Glück-Wunsch Ethik: Probleme bezüglich Implikationen und Fundierung, und ein Verbesserungsvorschlag” (“Comment on Wessel’s Happiness-Desire Ethics: Problems Regarding Its Implications and Foundations and a Suggestion for Improvement”), in: Zeitschri ür philosophische Forschung (Journal of Philosophical Enquiry) 2.

• (2013). Co-authored with J. Leuven. “Ryder’s Painism and his Criticism of Utilitarianism”, in: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26 (2).

• (2006). Co-authored with F.L.B. Meijboom and F.W.A. Brom. “From Trust to Trustworthiness: Why Information is Not Enough in the Food Sector”, in: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 19 (5), 427–442.

• (2004). Co-authored with L.W. Kranenburg, W. Weimar, W. Zuidema, M. de Klerk, M. Hilhorst, J. Passchier, J.N. Ijzermans, J.J. Busschbach. “Starting a Crossover Kidney Transplantation Program in the Netherlands: Ethical and Psychological Considerations”, in: Transplantation, 78 (2), 194–7.

Book chapters • (forthcoming 2018). “Utilitarian Plant Ethics”, in: Kallhoff, A. (ed.) Plant Ethics –

Principles, Norms, and Applications, Routledge. • (forthcoming 2018). “Argument from Marginal Cases”, in: Ach, J.S., Borchers, D.

(eds.) Handbuch Tierethik (e Animals Ethics Handbook), Metzler Verlag. • (forthcoming 2018). “Dürfen wir Tiere Töten?” (“May We Kill Animals?”), in: Ach,

J.S., Borchers, D. (eds.), Handbuch Tierethik (e Animals Ethics Handbook), Metzler Verlag.

• (2017). “Cross-Species Comparisons of Welfare”, in: Woodhall, A., Garmendia de Trindade, G. (eds.), Ethical and Political Approaches to Non-Human Animal Issues, Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

• (2016). “La Valeur de la Vie: des Comparassions à Travers des Espèces” (“e value of life: comparisons across species boundaries”) in: Dardenne, E., Giroux, V., Utria, E. (eds.), Peter Singer et la Libération Animale, 40 Ans Plus Tard (Peter Singer and Animal Liberation, 40 Years On), Rennes University Press, Rennes.

• (2016). “Introduction”, in: Visak, T., Garner, R. (eds.), e Ethics of Killing Animals. Oxford University Press, New York.

• (2016). “Do Utilitarians Need to Accept the Replaceability Argument?”, in: Visak, T., Garner, R. (eds.),e Ethics of Killing Animals, Oxford University Press, New York.

• (2016). “Lebensqualität als Selbstverwirklichung” (“ality of Life as Self-fulfillment”), in: Kipke, R., Kovács, L., Lutz, R. (eds.), Lebensqualität in der Medizin (ality of Life in Medical Practice), Springer, Berlin.

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• (2015). “Improving Welfare: a Context-Based Approach”, in: Graf, G., Schweiger, G. (eds.), Well-being of Children, De Gruyter, Berlin.

• (2015). “Environmental Ethics”, in: Vedwan, N. (ed.) An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management, Wiley, New York.

• (2012). “Daniel Haybron’s eory of Welfare and its Implications for Animal Welfare Assessment”, in: Pohast, T. (ed.), Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.

• (2010). “Do Animals Count for Less?”, in: Romeo Casabona, C.M., Escajedo, L., Emaldi, A. (eds.), Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.

• (2009). “Can Killing be Justified? A Dismissal of the Replaceability Argument”, in: Millar, K., Hobson West, P., Nerlich, B. (eds.), Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.

• (2007). Co-authored with F.W.A. Brom and F. Meijboom. “Food, Citizens and Market. e est for Responsible Consuming”, in: Frewer, L., Van Trijp, H. (eds.), Understanding Consumers of Food Products, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge.

• (2006). “How Animal-friendly Should Our Agricultural Practice Become?”, in: Kaiser, M., Lien, M.E. (eds.). Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.

• (2005). Co-authored with F.W.A. Brom and F.L.B. Meijboom. “Food, Citizens and Market. e est for Responsible Consuming”. In: Pothast, T., Baumgartner, C., en Engels, E.-M. (eds.) Die Richtigen Masse ür die Nahrung. Biotechnologie, Landwirtscha und Lebensmiel in Ethischer Perspektive. Francke Verlag, Basel, 115–132.

• (2003). “e Moral Relevance of Naturalness”, in: Drees, W.B. (ed.), Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value, Routledge, London.

• (2003). “e Normative Relevance of Disputes in Primatology”, in: Drees, W.B. (ed.), Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value, Routledge, London.

Book reviews • (2014) Review: e Point of View of the Universe. Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics. By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, in: Ethical Perspectives 21 (3), 469–471.

• (2014). Review: Towards a Right-Libertarian Welfare State. An Analysis of Right Libertarian Principles and their Implications. By Joachim Wündisch, in: Philoso-phical arterly.

• (2014). Review: Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, second edition. By Robin Afield, in: Ethical Perspectives 21 (3), 461–463.

• (2014). Review: Death. By Shelly Kagan, in: Ethical Perspectives 21 (1), 142–144. • (2012). Review: Zoopolis. A Political eory of Animal Rights. By Sue Donaldson

and Will Kymlicka, in: Philosophical arterly.

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• (2005). Review: Umweltethik – Umwelthandeln. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung des Motivationsproblems. By Christoph Baumgartner, in: Ethical Perspectives.

AWARDS

• Research funding Schlieben-Lange Foundation (50% Postdoc position for two years, September 2015–August 2017)

• Vonne Lund Junior Researcher Prize 2010, from the European Society of Agricul-ture and Food Ethics

• 1-year bursary at Leiden University for research and for developing a PhD pro-posal

• Prize for the best master thesis of the year of the Department of Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands, April 1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Mannheim University, Germany • Seminar “Parfit’s Philosophical Legacy”, Summer 2018 (in English) • Seminar “French Existentialism” (Französischer Existentialismus) (in German) • Seminar “Animal Ethics” (Tierethik), Fall 2017 (in German) • Seminar “Modern Political Philosophy” (“Neuzeitliche Staatstheorie”), Fall 2017 (in German)

• Seminar “Philosophical estions Concerning Death”, Fall 2016 (in English) • Seminar “Sidgwick, e Methods of Ethics”, Fall 2016 (in German) • Seminar “Basic Moral Principles” (Grundprinzipien der Ethik”), Fall 2015 (in German)

• Master Seminar “Collective Action Problems” (Probleme kollektiven Handelns”), Fall 2015 (in German)

• Seminar “Animal Ethics” (“Tierethik”), Summer 2015 (in German) • Seminar “Introduction to Metaethics” (“Einührung in die Metaethik”), Fall 2014 (in German)

• Seminar “Philosophical estions Concerning Death” (“Philosophische Fragen zum Tod”), Fall 2014 (in German), for students of Cultural Sciences

• Seminar “Consequentialism”, Summer 2014 (in English) • Seminar “Harm of Death” (“Was macht den Tod schlecht ür uns?”), Fall 2013 (in German)

Köln University, Germany • Seminar „Environmental Ethics“ („Umweltethik“), Fall 2017/18 (in German) • Seminar „Animal Ethics“ („Tierethik“), Summer 2017 (in German)

Saarland University, Germany • Seminar “Sidgwick, e Methods of Ethics”, Fall 2015 (in English) • Seminar “Gender, Sex(es) and Justice”, Summer 2015 (in German)

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• Seminar “Happiness and the Good Life” (“Glück und das Gute Leben“), Fall 2014 (in German)

• Lecture series “Innovations” (“Innovationen”), Summer 2014 (in German), for students of Cultural Sciences

• Master Seminar “Environmental Ethics”, Summer 2014 (in English) • Seminar “Harm of Death” (“Was macht den Tod schlecht ür uns?”), Winter 2013

(in German)

Monash University, Australia • Postgraduate course Clinical Ethics, Summer 2012 (in English) • Postgraduate course Health Care Ethics, Fall 2012 (in English) • Undergraduate course “Biotechnology, Justice and the Law”, Summer 2012 (in English)

• Undergraduate course “e Human Body and the International Market Place”, Fall 2012 (in English)

Leiden University, the Netherlands • 3/ course “Contemporary Utilitarianism”, Summer 2011 (in English) • course “Ethics”, Fall 2011 (in English) • course “Environment and Development I–III”, Fall 1997, Summer 1998 (in Dutch)

Utrecht University, the Netherlands • course “Ethics” (for Philosophy students), Summer 2009 (in Dutch) • course “Medical Humanities” (for Medical Students), Summer 2007 and 2008 (in Dutch)

• / Course “Justice” (for Medical Students), Fall 2006 (in Dutch) • Various introductory ethics classes for students of various programs (bio-medical

students, biology students and pharmacology students), 2005–2010 (in Dutch)

INVITED LECTURES (SELECTION)

• Studium Generale, Leiden University, the Netherlands (March 3, 2011) “Morele plichten ten aanzien van dieren. Een utilistisch perspectie” (“Moral duties towards animals. A utilitarian perspective”)

• seminar, Melbourne University, Australia (October 31, 2012) “Welfare as self-fulfillment: the implications of Haybron's account for welfare assessment and ethics”

• seminar, Melbourne University, Australia (May 23, 2013) “Counting welfare: whose and how?”

• Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (December 11, 2013) “Should I leave my gas-guzzler in the garage? e ethics of lile or no effects”

• Köln University, Germany (February 14, 2014) “Kindeswohl: verstehen, beurteilen und ördern. Der Fall der Feleibigkeit bei Kindern” (“How to understand, assess and improve happiness and welfare of children? e case of childhood obesity”)

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• Karl Franzens University Graz (March 14, 2014) “Individual moral duties in collective harm- and benefit cases”

• Bremen University (October 16, 2014) “Wem geht es besser: dem glücklichen Men-schen oder dem glücklichen Schwein? Zum Zusammenhang zwischen kognitiven und emotionalen Fähigkeiten und maximal erreichbarem Wohlergehen“ (“Who is beer off: a happy human or a happy pig? e connection between cognitive and emotional capacities and highest aainable welfare”)

• International conference “Ethics and/or Politics: Approaching the Issues  Concerning Nonhuman Animals”, Birmingham University, UK (April 9, 2015) “How to do cross-species comparisons of welfare? One ethical question and three different answers”

• International conference “Animal Liberation, Forty Years On”, Rennes University, France (29 May 2015) “e value of life: comparisons across species boundaries”

• International workshop “Joint Duties”, Bayreuth University, Germany (July 1, 2015) “Should consequentialists appeal to the moral relevance of imperceptible harm?”

• Heidelberg University, Germany (8 July 2015) “Dürfen wir Tiere töten?” („Is it morally permissible to kill animals?“)

• Duisburg-Essen University, Germany (8 July 2015) “Ein Kommentar zu Norbert Hoersters Tierethik” (“A commentary on Norbert Hoerster’s animal ethics”)

• “Oxford Workshop on Personal Identity and Ethics”, Oxford University, UK (November 20, 2015) “e Self as the Prudentially Significant Unit”

• University of Duisburg-Essen (2 June 2016) “Understanding ‘the meaning of life’ in terms of ‘reasons for action’”

• Dublin, World Vegetarian Day (2 October 2016) “Eating animals the nice way?” • Fribourg University, Switzerland (25 October 2016) “Population ethics: a brief

introduction to the most puzzling field of ethics” • University of Texas (28 March 2017) “Breed-related life expectancy and non-

identity cases” • University of Montreal, Canada (18 May 2017) “Duties towards plants?”

PAPER PRESENTATIONS (SELECTION)

Presented papers at various international conferences, such as: • the World Congress of Bioethics in Rijeka, Croatia (2008) and in Roerdam, the

Netherlands (2012) • the Minding Animals Conference in Newcastle, Australia (2009) and in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2012)

• conferences of the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics in various European countries (2006–2010)

• the Societas Ethica conference on climate ethics in the Netherlands (2013) • the Practical Philosophy conference at Reichenau, Germany (September 2013)

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• two Mancept Workshops in Political Philosophy in September 2013 (Welfare of Children and Happiness and Public Policy) and one in September 2015 (New Work in Population Ethics) at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom

• the Klausurwoche Lebensqualität in der Medizin (ality of Life in Medicine) at the University of Tübingen, Germany (in July 2014)

• the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP) at Osnabrück University, Germany (October 2015)

• the Oxford Conference on Population Ethics at Oxford University, UK (November 2015)

• Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lille, France (7 July 2016)

• Workshop on “Subjectivism and Objectivism About Well-being”, University of Tampere, Finland (18 December 2017)

ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCE (SELECTION)

• Minding Animals Conference 2012: an international conference with several hundred speakers on the human-animal relationship, sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and the EU

• Several public stakeholder discussions on genetic modification of animals at the request of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture in 2005

LANGUAGES

German (native), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), French (conversational)