Dimensions of Practical Necessity “Here I Stand. I Can Do No Other."

Somogy Varga (PhD, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main) is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. His primary areas of research are philosophy of psychiatry/mind, moral psychology and social philosophy. His publications include
Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal
(Routledge 2011) and
Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
(Oxford University Press 2015).



Katharina Bauer, Dr. phil., is a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at Rijskuniversiteit Groningen. In 2016 she has completed her habilitation thesis about theories of practical necessity as a research scholar of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”. She is the author of E
inander zu erkennen geben. Das Selbst zwischen Erkenntnis und Gabe
(Alber 2012).



Corinna Mieth is Professor for Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). Her main areas of specialization are positiveduties, human rights and human dignity, global justice, world poverty, and moral dilemmas. She is the author of
Positive Pflichten (Positive Duties). Über das Verhältnis von Hilfe und Gerechtigkeit in Bezug auf das Weltarmutsproblem
(de Gruyter 2012).