Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher
Magistra Artium (M.A.) (Humboldt University of Berlin); Doctor Philosophiae (Dr phil) (Humboldt University of Berlin)

I am Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences at Murdoch University. Before joining Murdoch in June 2013, I held appointments at The University of Melbourne, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Australian National University, the University of Vienna, and Potsdam University. My PhD in Philosophy (2009) is from Humboldt University of Berlin, my hometown.

Undergraduate

PHL130 Introduction to Philosophy

PHL204 Philosophy, Politics and Economics

PHL206 Ethics, Responsibility, and Justice (Moral and Political Philosophy)

PHL208 Ethics Through Film and Literature

PHL210 Applied Ethics: Environment, Animals and Society (Applied and Professional Ethics)

PHL211 Environmental Justice

PHL300 – Ethical Reasoning and Decision-Making: Applying Moral Theory in Practice

PHL302 – The Philosophy of Technology: A Brave New Engineered World?

PHL315 Aesthetics

PHL377 Philosophy in Practice (capstone unit)

Postgraduate

SWM621 Ethics and Global Justice

THE624 Ethics

My research is in moral, social and political philosophy, more specifically on

• the moral status of groups
• group action and joint action
• collective moral obligations
• social epistemology

• ethics of political violence (terrorism and war)

• environmental philosophy: ethics and climate change, social justice implications of conventional and renewable energies

• public goods and global commons (public health, natural environment)

• philosophy of public policy including the philosophical challenges of translating scientific findings into public policy

 

AWARDS

2022 – Winner Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation – Best Publication in Humanities and Social Sciences

2022 – Best Social Philosophy Book in 2021 for Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations, awarded by the North American Society for Social Philosophy, see also: ‘Getting Our Act Together’ to fight climate change and the pandemic

2021 – Annette Baier Prize Commendation for “Collective moral obligations: ‘we-reasoning’ and the perspective of the deliberating agent”

GRANTS

2021 - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (Germany), Research Group (EUR 300,000 / AUD 480,000 + 15month 1FTE Postdoc position) jointly with Dr Remco Heesen (UWA) and Prof Chad Hewitt (MU): “Epistemology of Ignorance. How philosophy can facilitate the science-policy interface”

2019 – Open Universities Australia Rapid Development Fund. This will go towards developing a new Graduate Certificate in “Ethics and Philosophy of Technology”.

2017 – Society for Applied Philosophy Event Funding. This funding will be used for a 2-day workshop at The University of Melbourne (Nov 2017) on Legal Punishment and Collective Agency. The law does not only punish discreet individual agents, but recognizes that incorporated agents can be liable to legal punishment, for instance where a corporation causes harm to individuals or the environment (such as in the UK’s Corporate Manslaughter Act). The law further recognizes that individuals can be liable to punishment for what they have done as members of (not incorporated) groups of individuals, that is, for what they did together with others, rather than individually, for example where a mob of people beats up and kills another person. While the philosophical literature on collective agency and collective moral responsibility is burgeoning, there are very few systematic discussions of the philosophical implications of collective legal responsibility. Likewise, there is much literature on the morality and philosophical implications of legal punishment, but not much of that focuses on collective agency in this context. This workshop is meant to be a starting point for a more systematic debate of the issue of collective legal responsibility. The workshop is fully funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy.

2017 – Oxford Martin Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford within the Collective Responsibility for Infectious Diseases Program.

2016 – Mentee of the ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme at The University of Melbourne. This is a mentoring program for early-career women researchers in the humanities and social sciences, based at the University of Melbourne, led by Prof Joy Damousi and funded by the Australian Research Council. The aim of the program is to “attract outstanding early career female researchers who have completed their PhDs within the past 10 years in the humanities and the social sciences to an intensive mentoring programme.”

2015 – “Grant to Support the Initiation of International Collaboration” by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) together with Professor Olivier Roy from the Department of Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

This grant funded the first in a series of bilateral workshops on the topic of “Joint Duties”.  The workshop was held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany from 1-2 July 2015 with scholars from Australia and Germany. Australian participants included Murdoch University’s Prof David Butler (School of Management and Governance) as well as Prof Toni Erskine from the University of New South Wales (School of Humanities and Social Sciences).

 

Talks and presentations in 2022

August 2022 – “I-mode reasoning vs. we-mode reasoning in moral deliberation – operating in the ‘wrong mode’?” at International Society for Social Ontology Conference, University of Vienna

April 2022 - Commentator for APA invited session on Collective Responsibility, APA Pacific Division

February 2022 – “Corporate ignorance: epistemic challenges for group agency”, Workshop on ‘The Abilities of Groups’, University of Vienna

February 2022 – “We-reasoning in moral deliberation”, Workshop on Team Reasoning and Collective Agency, University of Bamberg

Talks and presentations in 2021

December 2021 – “Responsible Citizens” – Book Symposium. Central European University, Vienna

October 2021 – “Moral deliberation in a public health crisis” Murdoch Colloquium, Murdoch University

August 2021 – “Group-based ignorance in corporations: Rio Tinto and the Juukan Gorge disaster”, Social Ontology Conference, San Diego (virtual)

August 2021 – Book Launch “Getting Our Act Together” and others at Odd Fellow, Fremantle

August 2021 – “Group-based ignorance in corporations: Rio Tinto and the Juukan Gorge disaster” online Presentation at Social Ontology 2021, the 13th Collective Intentionality Conference, San Diego

July 2021 – “Group-based ignorance in corporations: Rio Tinto and the Juukan Gorge disaster” online Presentation at Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2021, Waikato, NZ

July 2021 – Virtual Book Launch “Getting Our Act Together”Oxford Martin School, Oxford UK

May 2021 – Virtual research presentation “How we fail to know”, Universitaet Koeln, Germany

Talks and presentations in 2020:

September 2020 – “Collective action on climate change – it’s our shared responsibility“, Guildford Townhall Public Lecture

August 2020 – “Do group agents resemble psychopaths?” University of Western Australia

February 2020 – “Collective ignorance and epistemic obligations” Australasian Political Theory and Philosophy Conference, Melbourne

Talks and presentations in 2019:

October 2019 – “Pluralistic ignorance and epistemic obligations” Epistemology of Ignorance: On the Challenges of Translating Science into Public Policy, Workshop, Murdoch University

August 2019 – “Do group agents resemble psychopaths?” Social Ontology 2019, Tampere, Finland

March 2019 – Commentator at manuscript workshop on E. Kahn’s Global Poverty, Structural Injustice and Collectivization, University of Melbourne

January 2019 – “Collective inaction and group-based ignorance”, Kioloa Moral Philosophy Workshop, ANU

Talks and presentations in 2018:

September 2018 – co-host of The Future of Environmental Activism Workshop, Murdoch University

August 2018 – “Responsibility for collective inaction and group knowledge”, Social Ontology Conference, Tufts University, Boston, U.S.

May 2018 – “Responsibility for collective inaction and group knowledge”, Moral Epistemology Conference, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

March 2018 – “Do group agents resemble psychopaths?”, Mental Health and Moral Agency Workshop, Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, Australia

February 2018 – “Collective inaction and group-based ignorance”, St Cross College, Oxford University

Talks and presentations in 2017:

November 2017 – Public Lecture for Association for Philosophy in Schools (WA) Annual Meeting on “What we ought to do together”

November 2017 – Co-covener workshop on “Legal Punishment and Collective Agency” at The University of Melbourne, Department of Philosophy, sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy, invited speakers: Prof Philip Pettit (ANU/Princeton), Prof Toni Erskine (UNSW), Prof Janna Thompson (La Trobe), A/Prof Bill Wringe (Bilkent), Dr Stephanie Collins (Manchester), Dr Sean Bowden (Deakin)

June 2017 – Author-meets-critics, manuscript workshop on my book “Collective Moral Obligations“, Central European University, Budapest, invited discussants: Prof Gunnar Björnsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), A/Prof Bill Wringe (Bilkent University, Turkey), Dr Stephanie Collins (University of Manchester, UK).

June 2017 – “Global moral obligations” CELPA Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs – University of Warwick

April 2017 – “Are there global collective duties? (And if so what does that mean?)”, University of Otago; The University of Waikato; Massey University

March 2017 – “Is poverty our collective duty?” Melbourne Applied Philosophy Seminar, The University of Melbourne

March 2017 – “Collective moral action problems, responsibility gaps, and global justice”, MSPT Seminar, Australian National University

Talks and presentations in 2016:

October 2016 – On Terrorism and the politics of fear for The Philosophers’ Zone, Radio National, ABC Radio

September 2016 – “Global justice, cooperative action, and responsibility gaps“, MANCEPT Political Theory Workshops, University of Manchester, UK

August 2016 – “Collective agency, de dicto intentions and pooled knowledge”, Collective Intentionality X, Society for Social Ontology, Den Haag, Netherlands

July 2016 – “Collective moral action problems and ‘we-reasoning’”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, Monash University, Melbourne

May 2016 – “Collective moral action problems and ‘we-reasoning’”, Philosophical Society Seminar, University of Western Australia, Perth

March 2016 – “Collective moral action problems and ‘we-reasoning’”, Philosophy Seminar, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

Talks and presentations in 2015:

November 2015 – “Collective beneficence, perfect and imperfect duties”, Moral, Social & Political Theory Seminar, Research School for Social Science (RSSS), Australian National University, Canberra

November 2015 – “Shared  agency and pooled knowledge”, Philosophical Society Seminar, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra (co-author: Olivier Roy)

November 2015 – “How global poverty relief is not a collective duty”, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

October 2015: “Collective beneficence, perfect and imperfect duties”, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne

July 2015 – “Collective agency, de dicto intentions, and pooled information”, Bilateral workshop on Joint Moral Duties (AU/GER) at University of Bayreuth, Germany

June 2015 – “Warum kosmopolitische Pflichten keine kollektiven Hilfspflichten sind”, Workshop “Kollektive Verantwortung in der globalen Ethik”, Institute of Philosophy, University of Kassel, Germany

June 2015 – “Should Climate Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism?” at Climate Ethics and Climate Economics Symposium, University of Graz, Austria (co-author: Michael Rubin)

June 2015 – “Collective beneficence, perfect and imperfect duties”, Conference on Collective Responsibility for the Future, University College Dublin, Ireland

May 2015 – “Moral dilemmas for medical staff in armed conflicts”, at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2015, Perth

April 2015 – “Why cosmopolitan duties are not duties of ‘collective beneficence’”, Department of Philosophy, Deakin University, Melbourne

January 2015 – “Collective beneficence, perfect & imperfect duties“, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore

Talks and presentations in 2014:

November 2014 – “Polycentric systems, climate change and distributive justice”, Workshop on the values informing the Integrity System of the Global Climate Regime, at The Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL) Australia (a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith University and QUT in association with ANU and OP Jindal Global University Delhi), Brisbane

September 2014 – Respondent to Janna Thompson “Who’s the Culprit? Assigning Responsibility for Climate Change”, for Responsibility and Climate Change, Workshop at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

July 2014 – “The Responsibility Gap”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra

May 2014 – “Making sense of moral duties to collaborate”, Philosophical Society at The University of Western Australia, Perth

Talks and presentations in 2013:

17 December 2013 – “The Limits of Joint Duties”, University of Bayreuth, Germany

16 December 2013 – “The Limits of Joint Duties”, Philosophical Colloquium, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

13 December 2013 – “The Limits of Joint Duties”, PPPE Club, The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, Norway

12 December 2013 – “The Responsibility Gap”, Colloquium, The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, Norway

10 December 2013 – “The Limits of Joint Duties”, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

4 December 2013 – “The Limits of Joint Duties”,University of Münster, Germany

17 October 2013 – “Renewable energy, collective goods, and ‘NIMBY’-attitudes”, School of Arts Research Seminar, Murdoch University, Australia

July 2013 – “The limits of joint duties”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane

28 June 2013 – “Renewable energy, collective goods, and ‘NIMBY’-attitudes”, Australasian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle

6 March 2013 – “Collective duties and public goods”, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics Seminar Series (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University, Canberra

ongoing:

Member of the AAP Women in Philosophy Committee, since April 2022

Convenor Murdoch Philosophy Seminar (since July 2016)

Covenor Annual Murdoch Philosophy Colloquium (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)

Member of Murdoch University Working Group for Sustainability and Social Responsibility (sub-committee of Academic Council), since June 2022

Member of the Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability at Murdoch University (since 2015)

Co-Chair of the Honours Sub-Committee (since April 2016)

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Elected Academic Member of College Board, College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Science, Murdoch University (July 2021- Dec 2022)

Convenor Moral and Political Philosophy work-in-progress group, Perth (2019-2021)

Philosopher in Residence, Hale School, Perth (August/September 2018)

Philosothon Judge, Western Australia (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Academic Chair of Philosophy, School of Arts, Murdoch University (July 2016-Dec 2020)

Teaching and Learning Committee, School of Arts, Murdoch University (April 2016 – Dec 2018)

Reviewer (journals) for American Political Science Review; Analysis; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Dialectica; Environmental Values; Erkenntnis; Ethics, Policy & Environment; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; European Journal of Political Theory; International Theory; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Global Ethics; Journal of Military Ethics; Journal of Philosophy; Journal of Social Philosophy; Law and Philosophy; Mind & Language; Philosophers’ Imprint; Philosophical Studies; Philosophy, Politics & Economics; Res Publica; Social Theory and Practice.

Reviewer (books): Routledge

PhD:

Malcolm Hughes (Murdoch University): “Is there a ethical imperative to provide State Financial and Regulatory support for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD”, since July 2022

Shayne Martyn (Murdoch University): “The Special Obligation for Police to Inflict Defensive Harm”, since Feb 2021

Mark Cooper (Murdoch University) “An Ecological Theory of Value”, Jan 2017 – May 2022 (completed)

Master:

Nathan Wood (University of Bayreuth) “The Role of Proportionality in Just War Theory”, Oct 2015 – Mar 2016, completed (HD)

Honours:

Shayne Martyn (Murdoch University): “The ethics of police use of lethal force when an imminent threat to life is not apparent”, Feb 2019 – Dec 2019 (1^st class)

Rebecca Kay (Murdoch University): “Dehumanising? A philosophical analysis of Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’ (2012-2019)”,  Feb 2019 – Dec 2019 (2^nd class, level A)

Mark Cooper (Murdoch University) “A Naturalistic Theory of Value” Jan – Dec 2016, completed (1^st class)

Rowan McCullough (Murdoch University) “Zeno’s Paradoxes” Jul 2015 – Jun 2016, completed (2^nd class, level A);

You can view all my publications on PhilPapers. You can find my Google Scholar profile here. I’m also on Academia.edu and ResearchGate.

Books

Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations New York; London: Routledge, 2021.

• Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy 2022 Book Award for Best Social Philosophy Book published in 2021
• View Murdoch University’s press release for the NASSP book award: ‘Getting Our Act Together’ to fight climate change and the pandemic
• Winner of Murdoch University’s 2022 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation
• Read the introduction here.
• For a summary of the main ideas watch my virtual book launch at Oxford Martin School, faciliated by Julian Savulescu (Oxford) HERE.
• Read an opinion piece based on the main thesis of the book on the ABC Religion and Ethics blog.
• Read a book review by Maike Albertzart in Australasian Journal of Philosophy here.
• Read a book review by Olle Blomberg in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice here.
• Read a book review by Hans Bernhard Schmid in Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie (in German) here.

Terrorism: A Philosophical Enquiry. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

• Read the introduction here;
• Read a review of the book in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy here
• And in the London School of Economics Review of Books here
• Listen to an interview On Terrorism and the politics of fear for The Philosophers’ Zone, Radio National, ABC Radio

Book Chapters

Schwenkenbecher, A. & M. Brueckner (2022) “Renewable Energy” In Ben Hale & Andrew Light (eds.) Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 359-373.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2021) “Kollektive Verantwortung und Armut” (“Collective Responsibility and Poverty”) in Gottfried Schweiger and Sedmak, Clemens (eds.) Handbuch Philosophie und Armut. Metzler, pp. 326-332.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2020) “The possibility of collective moral obligations” in Saba Bazargan-Forward and Tollefsen, Deborah (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Collective Responsibility. New York: Routledge, pp. 258-273.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2020) “Antimicrobial footprints, fairness, and collective harm“ in Euzebiusz Jamrozik and Selgelid, Michael (eds.) Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health. Springer, pp. 379-389.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2018) “Making sense of collective moral obligations:  A comparison of existing approaches” in Tracy Isaacs, Kendy Hess & Violetta Igneski (eds.) Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics and Social Justice. Rowman & Littlefield pp. 109-132.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2018) “Why business firms have moral obligations to mitigate climate change” In Martin Brueckner et al. (eds.) Disciplining the Undisciplined? Perspectives from Business, Society and Politics on Responsible Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. Series editors: S.O. ldowu and R. Schmidpeter. Springer, pp. 55-70.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2017) “Terrorism and the Prospect of Peace” In Florian Demont-Biaggi (ed.) The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 123-140.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2015)“Polycentric Systems and the Integrity Approach”, In Breakey, Hugh, Vesselin Popovski and Rowena Maguire (eds.) Ethical Values and the Global Climate Integrity System. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 131-138.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2013) “Rethinking Legitimate Authority” In Fritz Allhoff, Nick Evans and Adam Henschke (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 161-170.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2011) “Moral Obligations of States” In Applied Ethics Series. Hokkaido, Japan: Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, pp. 86-92.

Refereed Journal Articles

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2022) “Collective inaction, omission, and non-action: when not acting is indeed on ‘us’” in Synthese 200, 423 (article number).

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2022) “How we fail to know: Group-based ignorance and collective epistemic obligations” In Political Studies 70(4): 901-918.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2021) “Structural injustice and massively shared obligations” in Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 (1): 1-16.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2020) “The epistemology of group duties: what we know and what we ought to do”. in Journal of Social Ontology (1): 91-100.

Roy, O. and A. Schwenkenbecher (2019) “Shared Intentions, Loose Groups, and Pooled Knowledge” in Synthese (online first).

Schwenkenbecher, A. and M. Rubin (2019) “Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism?” in Environmental Values 28 (4): 405-427.

Schwenkenbecher A. (2019) “Collective moral obligations: ‘we-reasoning’ and the perspective of the deliberating agent” in The Monist 102(2): 151-171.

• This paper won a commendation for the 2020 Annette Baier Prize awarded by the Australasian Association of Philosophy, see https://aap.org.au/Annette-Baier-Prize

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2017) “What is wrong with NIMBYs? Renewable energy, landscape impacts and incommensurable values” in Environmental Values 26(6): 711-732.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2017) “Gemeinsame Hilfspflichten, Weltarmut und kumulative Handlungen” [“Joint duties to assist, global poverty and cumulative actions”]in Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 4(1): 123-150.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2014) “Joint Moral Duties” In Midwest Studies in Philosophy 38: 58-74.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2014) “Collateral Damage and the Principle of Due Care” In Journal of Military Ethics, 13(1): 94-105.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2014) “Is There An Obligation To Reduce One’s Individual Carbon Footprint?” In Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 17(2): 168-188.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2013) “Bridging the Emissions Gap: A Plea for Taking Up the Slack” In Philosophy and Public Issues 3(1): 273-301.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2013) “Joint Duties and Global Moral Obligations” in Ratio, XXVI: 310-328.

Goppel, A. and A.Schwenkenbecher (2012) “Philosophy and International Law: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research into Terrorism” In Ancilla Iuris Special Issue: International Law and Ethics: 111–134.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2010) “How to Punish Collective Agents: Non-Compliance with Moral Duties by States (Response to Toni Erskine)” In Ethics & International Affairs, 24(3). Online Exclusive.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2009) “Terrorism, Supreme Emergency and Killing the Innocent” In Perspectives – The Review of International Affairs, 17(1): 105-126.

Book Reviews

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2022) “Wenn gemeinsames Handeln das Böse hervorbringt“, Review of Evil in Joint Action: The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin by Hans Bernhard Schmid. Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie 70(1): 172-179.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2017) Cosmopolitanism Versus Non-Cosmopolitanism: Critiques, Defenses, Reconceptualizations, edited by Gillian Brock. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(1): 187-190.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2011) McMahan, Jeff: Killing in War for Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 89(2): 376-377.

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2007) Beestermöller et.al.: “’What we’re fighting for…’ – Friedensethik in der transatlantischen Debatte.”(English:“’What we’re fighting for’ – Peace Ethics in the Transatlantic Debate) for e-politik.de

Other publications (Blogs, newspaper articles, etc.)

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2021) “Macht es Sinn, von gemeinsamer Verantwortung fuer Weltarmut zu sprechen?” on Praefaktisch. Ein Philosophieblog, November 18, 2021. [in German]

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2021) “Getting our act together: ‘We-reasoning’ about the current public health crisis” on ABC Religion and Ethics, August 30, 2021

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2020) Massively shared obligations: making a difference – together!, Justice Everywhere, September 24, 2020

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2018) We need to rethink our moral obligations to create a better world, The Conversation, March 18, 2018

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2017) Who is responsible for anti-microbial resistance?, Oxford Martin School, July 13, 2017

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2016) Russian doping scandal: Should other countries pull out of the Olympics?, The Conversation, August 2, 2016

Schwenkenbecher, A. and others (2015) Philosophers on the Charleston Massacre in Daily Nous, June 22, 2015

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2015) Are the victims of flight MH17 collateral damage? in The Critique, April 1, 2015.

Other media

July 2021 – Virtual book launch of “Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations” at Oxford Martin School, faciliated by Julian Savulescu (Oxford) HERE.

October 2016 – On Terrorism and the politics of fear for The Philosophers’ Zone, Radio National, ABC Radio