Founding Member
Konstantin Deininger
Animal Ethicist and Philosopher
Konstantin studied ethics and philosophy in Munich and Vienna. He teaches at the University of Vienna and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. In his PhD, he developed a practice-oriented approach to animal ethics, drawing inspiration from Cora Diamond and Wittgenstein's later works. His research focuses primarily on animal ethics and animal philosophy but also extends to applied ethics, including topics such as biomedical innovations such as organoids and veterinary ethics. (Photo credit: ©Frank Helmrich).
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Deininger, K., and Grimm, H. 2026. Certainties and the bedrock of moral reasoning: Three ways the spade turns. Analytic Philosophy, 67(1):12-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12357
Deininger, K. 2025. In an Animal’s Shoes: Facing Animal Suffering as a Difficulty of Reality, Between the Species 28(1): 77-102.
Deininger, K., Aigner, A., and Grimm, H. 2024. "Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics." The Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (3): 495-513.
Deininger, K., Karg, J., and Grimm, H. 2024. "Mission Veterinary Medicine: Learning from Methodological Aspects in Just War Theory," In EurSafe2024 Proceedings: Back to the Future – Sustainable Innovations for Ethical Food Production and Consumption, edited by Mona Giersberg, Franck Meijboom and Bernice Bovenkerk, 318-323. Leiden: Wageningen Academic.