Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator
Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: Normative Economic Policy – Past, Present and Future | Research focus 2 – Liquefied Orders: Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
Project Management: Normative Economic Policy – Past, Present and Future | Research Focus 4 – Overstretched Orders: Global Governance between De- and Renationalization
Project management: Interpreting the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature | Research focus 4 – Overstretched orders: Global Governance between De- and Renationalization
Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Sustainable Development, Global Governance and Justice | Research field 1
Subject areas
Political science
Main research
International Political Theory and Philosophy
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Biografische Angaben
Since 2013: Professor of International Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy (co-opted) at the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
2002-2013: San Diego State University, Founding Director of the Department of Ethics and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Philosophy 2002-2007, Professor 2007.
1998-1999: Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
1996-2002: University of the Witwatersrand, Lecturer in Philosophy 1996-97, tenured early 1997, Senior Lecturer 1997-2001, Associate Professor 2001-2002.
1991-1995: California State Polytechnic University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure-track.
1990: PhD, Philosophy, Claremont Graduate School
1988-1991: Riverside Community College, Lecturer in Philosophy, tenured 1991.
1987-1988: Doctoral candidate in philosophy (exchange), Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg
1985: MA, Philosophy, Claremont Graduate School
1983: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
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Publikationen
Auswahl
2026
Moellendorf, Darrel (2026): The Examined Illness: A Philosopher Confronts Deadly Disease, Bristol.2025
Moellendorf, Darrel (2025): “Climate Finance, the Right to Promote Sustainable Development, and Responsibility, in Berger Alex et al (Hrsg.): Global Economic Governance: Normative and Empirical Perspectives on Promoting Fairer Globalization, Edinburgh.2023
Moellendorf, Darrel (2023): Two Conceptions of Proportionality for Jus ex Bello, in Parker, Graham and Wilson, Mark (Hrsg.): How to End a War, Oxford.
Moellendorf, Darrel: “Economic Contagion and Pro-Poor Social Epidemiology,” in Journal of Social Philosophy 52, S. 270-284.2022
Moellendorf, Darrel (u.a.) (2022): “Ethical Choices behind Quantifications of Fair Contributions under the Paris Agreement,” Nature Climate Change 11, 2021, 300-305.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2022): Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press.2021
Moellendorf, Darrel; Callies, Daniel (2021): “Assessing Climate Policies: Catastrophe Avoidance and the Right to Sustainable Development” Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 20:2, 127-150.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): “Hoffnung und Gründe”, in: Forst, Rainer; Gunther, Klaus (Hrsg.), Normative Ordnungen, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 648-671.
English version available online: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55449.2020
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel; Brun, Sebastian (2020): “Distributive Justice and Climate Change Economics, ” Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltforschung, Heft 1.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Hope and reasons. Normative Orders Working Paper 02/2020.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): “Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene”, in: Blöser, Claudia; Stahl, Titus (Hrsg.), The Moral Psychology of Hope, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 249-264.
Blöser, Claudia; Huber, Jakob; Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Hope in political philosophy, in: Philosophy Compass, 15. | https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12665
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Responsibility for Increasing Mitigation Ambition in Light of the Right to Sustainable Development, in: Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 13, 181–192.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, in: McKim, Robert (Hrsg.), Laudato si’ and the Environment. Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical, New York: Routledge.2019
Moellendorf, Darrel (2019): Cosmopolitan Justice, New York und London: Routledge.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2019): Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene, in: Blöser, Claudia/Stahl, Titus (Hrsg.), The Moral Psychology of Hope, Rowan and Littlefield.2018
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Development and Climate Ethics, in: Lever, Anabelle/Paoma, Andrei (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook Ethics and Public Policy, London: Routledge, 487–500.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Ending Wars, in: Lazar, Seth/Frowe, Helen (Hrsg.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of War, Oxford: Oxford University Press. | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943418.013.14
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Justice in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policies, in: Schmidtz, David/Shahar, Dan (Hrsg.), Environmental Ethics. What Really Matters, What Really Works, 3. Auflage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Justice in Mitigation After Paris, in: Murphy, Colleen/Gandoni, Pablo/McKim, Robert (Hrsg.), Climate Change and Its Impacts: Risks and Inequalities, New York: Springer, 53–68.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Real-World Global Egalitarianism, in: Eckersley, Robin/Brown, Chris (Hrsg.), Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198746928.013.7
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Three Interpretations of the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature, in: Ethics, Politics and Society.2017
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2017): An Intergenerationally Fair Path to 2ºC, in: Climatic Change, 143:3, 213–226.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2017): Justice and Climate Change, in: Wolff, Jonathan (Hrsg.), Essential Reading in Ethics, New York: W. W. Norton, 457–467.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2017): Progress, Destruction, and the Anthropocene, in: Social Philosophy and Policy, 34:2, 66–88.2016
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Absolute poverty and global inequality, in: Schramm, Michael/Pogge, Thomas (Hrsg.), Absolute Poverty and Global Justice. Empirical Data – Moral Theories – Initiatives, London: Routledge, 143–154.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Anti-Poverty, Development, and the Limits of Progress, in: Res Publica, 22:3, 317–325. | doi:10.1007/s11158-016-9329-y
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Can a Liberal State Make Access to Medical Education Conditional on Public Service?, in: Moral Philosophy and Politics, 3:1, 45–53.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2016): Equalizing the Intergenerational Burdens of Climate Change — An Alternative to Discounted Utilitarianism, in: Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 30:1, 43–62.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Global Distributive Justice (2): The Cosmopolitan Point of View, in: Held, David/Maffettone, Pietro (Hrsg.), Global Political Theory, London: Polity Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Taking UNFCCC Norms Seriously, in: Roser, Dominic/Heyward, Jennifer (Hrsg.), Climate Change and Non-Ideal Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 104–125.2015
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Assistance, duty of”, “Cosmopolitanism”, and “Outlaw states”, in: Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.), A Rawls Lexicon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): Can Dangerous Climate Change Be Avoided, in: Global Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric, 8:2, 66–85.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Climate Change Justice,” Philosophy Compass, on line, March 2015, 173-186.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (2015): Introduction, in: Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, London: Routledge, 1–3.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Two Doctrines of Jus ex Bello,“ Ethics 125:3, 2015, 653-673.2014
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2014): “Beyond Discounted Utilitarianism – Just Distribution of Climate Costs,” Karlsruher Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitischen Forschung 34 (2014).
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (2014): “Global Ethics Then and Now,” Journal of Global Ethics, 10:3, 2014, 319-325.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): “Just War,” in: Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): “Responsibility and the Right to Sustainable Development in Climate Change Treaty Deliberations” in Marcello Di Paola and Gianfranco Pellegrino eds. Canned Heat: The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change, Routledge.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (ed.) (2014): The Handbook of Global Ethics, Durham: Acumen.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.2013
Moellendorf, Darrel (2013): “Human Dignity, Associative Duties, and Egalitarian Global Justice”, in: Gillian Brock (ed.), Cosmopolitanism For and Against, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 222-238.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2013): “Transcendental Institutionalism and Global Justice,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 16:2,162-178.2012
Moellendorf, Darrel (2012): “Climate Change and Global Justice,” WIREs Climate Change, 3:131–143.2011
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): A Normative Account of Dangerous Climate Change, in: Climatic Change, 108:1, 57–72.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): A Right to Sustainable Development, in: The Monist, 94:3, 433–452.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties, in: The Monist, 94:4, 535–554.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Why Global Inequality Matters, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 42:1, 99–109.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Common Atmospheric Ownership and Equal Emissions Entitlements, in: Arnold, Denis (Hrsg.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 104–123.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties, in: The Monist, 94:4, 535–554.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Jus ex Bello in Afghanistan, in: Ethics and International Affairs, 25:2, 155–164.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Why Global Inequality Matters, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 42:1, 99–109.2010
Moellendorf, Darrel (2010): Human Dignity, Respect, and Global Inequality, in: Journal of Global Ethics, 6:3, 339–352.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2010): Menschenwürde, Gleichheit und globale Gerechtigkeit, in: Broszies, Christoph/Hahn, Henning (Hrsg.), Globale Gerechtigkeit, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 302–328.2009
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Global Inequality Matters, Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Justice and the Intergenerational Assignment of the Costs of Climate Change, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 40:2, 204–224.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation, in: Ethics and International Affairs, 23:3, 247–265.2008
Pogge, Thomas; Moellendorf, Darrel (2008): Global Justice: Seminal Essays, St. Paul: Paragon.2007
Moellendorf, Darrel (2007): Reconciliation as a Political Value, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 38:2, 205–221.