Hasko von Kriegstein

I hold a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Universitaet Bayreuth and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (defence in fall 2014). 

Approaching moral philosophy from a broadly consequentialist point of view, I have a long standing interest in population ethics, i.e. questions about how to morally evaluate states of the world by aggregating the well-being of individual people (and, possibly, other goods). This has led me to develop an interest in questions about the nature of well-being and the Good in general. My doctoral research focused on the value of achievements and I have recently begun to develop a novel form of an objective list theory about well-being which attempts to unify the items on such a list via the notion of harmony between mind and world. 
Engaging in debates about substantive theories of the Good will make one acutely aware of what John Rawls has famously called 'the fact of reasonable pluralism' about such theories. I take this to be an important fact of moral life, and think that (besides political philosophy) all fields of applied ethics need to take it very seriously. I try to do so in my own work on business ethics.