Michael Walschots

Welcome!

I'm currently a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Before coming to Halle, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and from 2016 to 2018 I was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Starting in 2023, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Mainz, Germany, where I'll be a part of the project: 'Rethinking Enlightenment: The Reception of John Locke in Germany'

My research focuses on issues in meta-ethics and moral psychology in eighteenth-century German and British philosophy. I am particularly interested in the writings of Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Francis Hutcheson, and Adam Smith, and a number of my publications have sought to better understand Kant’s ethics by placing him in dialogue with his eighteenth-century British and German predecessors.

When I’m not reading and writing about philosophy I’m either cooking, baking, or going on adventures with my wife and son.