Join me today for an interview with Dr. Julia Hermann. Dr. Hermann did her undergrad at the University of Heidelberg, where she also did an MA on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty under Dr. Andreas Kemmerling in 2006. She completed her doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in 2011 under the supervision of Dr. Dennis Patterson. I came to know her work through her 2015 monograph On Moral Certainty, Justification, and Practice: A Wittgensteinian Perspective (Palgrave-Macmillan). Dr. Hermann’s book is on metaethics, though her interests, like mine, have always been eclectic and she now works and teaches in philosophy of technology at the University of Twente. You can about Dr. Hermann on her page at University of Twente. Today, Julia and I discuss her Wittgensteinian “practice theory” of morality, the importance of training in moral education, the meaning of moral competence, and the (underappreciated) importance of teaching in general in academia.

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