Alice Pinheiro-Walla
PhD students
Email: apw36@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis/research: Morality, Rationality and The Good Life. A Kantian Approach.
Supervisors: Jens Timmermann and James Harris
Profile
Nationality: Austrian
Degrees: Magister degree in Philosophy, French and Portuguese, Vienna University, Austria, 2006; M.Litt in Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, 2007.
Other Research Interests
Kant, Moral and Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy.
Recent Teaching
PY2103 Rationality and Action; PY2003 Ancient Philosophy
Presentations
June 2008. Presentation at the conference "Nostalgia and the Shapes of history", Queen Mary, University of London. Paper: "Human Freedom as the Expulsion from Paradise: Immanuel Kant's Theory of History".
July 2008. Presentation at the Joint Session 2008, Graduate Session, University of Aberdeen. Paper: "Moral Principles, Defeasibility and Practical Reasoning."
September 2008. Presentation at the 5th annual PSA workshop in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University. Paper: "Economic Justice and The Kantian State."
October 2008. Workshop "Civic Education for Peace in Divided Societies". Irmgard Coninx Foundation for Transnationality, WZB and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Paper: Who's afraid of Cosmopolitan Education? Kant on Education for Peace.
Non-Academic Interests
My children, the joys of marital life, literature and ballet classes.