Agnès Baehni
Assistante de Julien Deonna et Fabrice Teroni
Welcome to my page !
I am a PhD candidate and doctoral assistant at the university of Geneva, working under the supervision of Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni. I specialize in ethics, metaethics and philosophy of mind. More specifically, my PhD project explores the moral self-relationship, i.e, the question whether, and if so how, we relate morally to ourselves. This has led me to think and write about different topics : self-blame, self-forgiveness, duties to oneself, self-partiality and self-reflexive emotions such as guilt, shame and self-anger.
More recently, I have started to write on more positive aspects of our lives such as the emotion of joy or the prudential value of doing things "for the plot". Don't hesitate to e-mail me for a draft.
You can find my website here.
Education
Phd, Université de Genève (defense planned spring 2026)
Thèse : Relating Morally to Oneself, dir. Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni.
MAS, Pedagogical diploma for the teaching of philosophy in high school (2021).
MA, Philosophy with a specialization in contemporary philosophy (2020)
Mémoire : Le blâme moral : nature, éthique et fonction, sous la direction du prof. Fabrice Teroni.
BA, Philosophy, History and Archeology, Université de Neuchâtel (2018).
Area of specialization
Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of mind
Area of competence
Political philosophy (esp. feminist philosophy), History of philosophy (esp. ancient and modern moral philosophy)
Publications
Baehni, A. (2024). Justifying Self-Partiality, in Philosophia
Baehni, A. Protasi Sara, The Philosophy of Envy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, . ISBN: 9781009007023, $ 87, hbk. J Value Inquiry (2022).
Baehni, A. Schofield Paul, Duties to the Self : Moral, Political and Legal Self-Relation. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. (Forthcoming in Dialectica).
Baehni, A. (2024). « It’s Me, Hi ! I’m the Problem It’s Me : On the Ethics of Self-Blame, in Catherine M. Robb, Georgie Mills & William Irwin (eds.), Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. 2024
Baehni, A. (2024). Blâme de soi et blâme des autres, in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale.
Baehni, A. (2024). A (New) Defense of Self-forgiveness, in The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Baehni, A. (2025). Borderline Personality Disorders and Moral Responsibility, in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
Baehni, A. (Forthcoming). What is the Point of Self-blame ? , in Res Publica.
Baehni, A., Grandjean, V. (Forthcoming). Duties to Past-Selves, in Philosophical Quarterly.
Baehni, A. (Provisionally Forthcoming). More Than Just Blame, in Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility volume 10.
Under review
The Emotion of Joy (draft available)
Doing it for the plot (draft available)
Why We Cannot Gnostically Wrong, with Samuel Carlsson Tjernström (draft available)
Blaming Good People, with Alexander Velichkov (draft available)
In progress
Grieving Possible Selves
Sidgwick's Practical Dualism Revisited
Responsibility for Emotions
Kant on Mental Wronging
Selected Talks
13.11. 2025: New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility, New Orleans, « More than Just Blame ».
12.06.2025: European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions annual conference, Paris, « The Emotion of Joy ».
20.03.2025: UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Normativity workshop, commentator.
18.12.2024: University of Helsinki, Workshop on risk, « Doing it for the Plot », (invited).
04.09. 2024: Rome, World Congress of Philosophy, «Why We Cannot Gnostically Wrong», with Samuel C. Tjernström.
25.06.2024: Bern University, Workshop « Reactive Attitudes Over Time, «Duties to Past Selves», with Vincent Grandjean).
20.06.2024: Goethe University Frankfurt, Research Colloquium,, «Moral blame yes, Non-Moral Blame no!», with Alexander Velichkov, (invited).
04.2024: Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Journées d’études « Émotions et Responsabilité », «La fonction du blâme de soi», (invited).
09.04.2024: Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, «Duties to Past Selves», with Vincent Grandjean, (invited).
20. 02. 2024 : NANORIN Workshop, Sevilla « Why We Cannot Gnostically Wrong », with Samuel Carlsson Tjernström.
07. 12. 2023 : GEM Paris, « Duties to Past-Selves », with Vincent Grandjean, (invited).
18. 10. 2023 : Zurich University, research colloquium, « On Moral and Non-Moral Blame », (invited).
29. 09. 023 : Lund University « Relational Practices Workshop », The Ethics of Self-Blame, (invited).
7-9. 09. 2022 : University of Manchester, Mancept Workshops (Panel : Duties to Oneself), « Do We Have a Duty of Self-Knowledge ? ».
06.10. 2022 : Warwick University : « The (Emotional) Nature of Self-Blame ».
18.07.2022 : SOPHA Conference, University of Neuchâtel : « Do We Have a Duty of Self-Knowledge ? »
18. 02. 2022 : Newport News University Ethics Conference : « Virtuous Partiality to Oneself » (online).
03. 02. 2022 : Lund Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy : « In Defense of Self-Forgiveness ».