Prof. Dr. Vojko Strahovnik

Vojko Strahovnik, PhD, Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology.

My recent outreach activities include being a visiting lecturer (2017 – Level 100 and 300 course; 2023 – PhD seminar), a Fulbright research scholar (2016) and Templeton Visiting Researcher (2022; link to the research project website here) at the University of Arizona, Department of Philosophy.

The big research question that incites me most is the structure and phenomenology of normativity. This theme crosscuts a number of philosophical fields (ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics) as well as other scientific areas, in particular, cognitive science, AI, law, and psychology.

The impact of my work ranges from new and important theoretical insights into the nature of normativity (the role of moral principles in the formation of moral judgments, authority of the normative domain, epistemic agency and epistemic virtuousness) to considerations related to practical dimensions of our lives (e.g. the role of guilt and moral shame in reconciliation processes, the importance of intellectual and ethical virtues in dialogue and education, global justice, animal ethics, and the ethics of AI) (links point to some of my papers on these issues).

My work is also reflected in applied projects with broader societal impact (international projects in the domain of ethics education in schools). The results of my research have been published in several scientific papers and chapters, as well as in five monographs: Practical Contexts (Frankfurt, 2014), Challenging Moral Particularism (New York 2008), Moral Judgment, Intuition and Moral Principles (Velenje 2009; transl. Zagreb 2019), Moral Theory. The Nature of Morality (Maribor 2016; transl. Zagreb, 2018) and Global Ethics: Perspectives on Global Justice (Berlin, 2019).

My most recent book project that is under development (with T. Horgan, D. Henderson and M. Potrč) bears a tentative title What it is Like to Believe: Doxastic Rationality and Virtuous Epistemic Agency (and is under contract with OUP).

Full CV is available here.

Areas (and topics) of special interest: metaethics (moral phenomenology, error theory, intuitionism, particularism), normative ethics (models of ethical pluralism), applied ethics (ethics of AI, medical bioethics, ethics of public administration, ethics and public policy), epistemology (evidentialism, contextualism), history of Slovene philosophy (Slovene phenomenological tradition, France Veber), legal philosophy, logic and argumentation.