Tim Henning
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Tim Henning

Tim Henning is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His research focusses on questions related to moral philosophy, the philosophy of language, and on the thought of Immanuel Kant, and is a member of the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the German Society for Analytic Philosophy's Wolfgang Stegmüller Award.
 
Tim Henning is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His research focusses on questions related to moral philosophy, the philosophy of language, and on the thought of Immanuel Kant, and is a member of the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the German Society for Analytic Philosophy's Wolfgang Stegmüller Award.
 

PUBLICATIONS

Academic Freedom and Morals
Year of Publication: 2024
Tim HenningYear of Publication: 2024

In many places around the world, academic freedoms are viewed as being under threat from moralism, intellectual taboos, and ‘cancel culture’. But is moral outrage in the face of certain scholarly positions – for example on genetics and IQ, on gender and biology, or on disabilities and infanticide – always an ideological and paternalistic infringement on what should be an autonomous...