Corinna's contributions to the project have focussed on how Kant's ethics can illuminate issues such as poverty, migration, and social cooperation. In a recent co-edited collection, she has also explored the relationship between Kant and ancient philosophy.
In collaboration with Garrath, she has shown that focusing solely on instrumentalisation creates blind spots in Kantian ethics. In particular, it neglects an important aspect of the Formula of the Kingdom of Ends, where people should be both "ends and means" for others (Groundwork 4:433). Paying attention to this idea helps explain why forms of economic exclusion (e.g. as suffered by some migrants or people unable to find employment) are morally wrong.
She has also been examining the role of hostility in modern migration debates. Although hostility may sometimes be politically justified as a response to aggression, this is hardly ever relevant to migration: migrants have both ethical and legal rights not to be treated with hostility. Once more, this ethical dimension cannot be fully explained by the standard focus on the wrongs of instrumentalisation.
Recent talks
Kant and Uber Drivers. Freie Universität Berlin and Bristol University, February 2026; Summer School "The Diversity of Human Rights. Human Rights and Inequalities", University of Dubrovnik (IUC), August 2024
Blind-spots in Kant's End-in-itself Formula of the Categorical Imperative / Blinde Flecken in Kants Zweck-an-Sich-Formel des Kategorischen Imperativs. Beijing University, November 2025; Philosophisches Kolloquium, Universität Erfurt, April 2025; Online-Veranstaltungsreihe "Was ist Aufklärung", Forum Wissenschaftsstadt Bonn, Universität Bonn, November 2024; Philosophisches Kolloquium Prof. Anna Schriefl, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, October 2024; Philosophische Gesellschaft Bern (krino), April 2024
Kant on Gratitude to Migrants. International Conference "Kant on Democracy, Citizenship and Migration", University of Cagliari, October 2025
Response to Nuria Sanchez Madrid's Kant on Social Suffering. Complutense University, Madrid, October 2025
Migrants' Perspectives as a Challenge for Liberal Theory. Madrid, October 2025; University of Cagliari, May 2025; Forschungskolloquium Philosophie, ETH Zürich, Schweiz, April 2025; University of Pavia, February 2025
Migration, Self-Love and Gratitude (with Martin Sticker), International Workshop "Democracy and Citizenship in the Aetas Kantiana," Molise University, May 2025
Kant, Migration and the Cosmopolitan Right Not to be Treated with Hostility, International Symposium "Warum jetzt Kant lesen?" Goethe-Institut Mumbai, November 2024; Tagung der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (SVRSP), "Zur kantischen Philosophie als Grundlage des Rechts", St. Gallen University, November 2024; Internationale Conference "War and Peace After Kant," University of Ljubljana), November 2024; Conference Keynote, Rethinking Migration - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Villa Vigoni Italien, February 2024
The Formula of Humanity and the Mistreatment of Migrants: Indifference, Hostility and Degradation (with Martin Sticker), Conference Keynote "Immanuel Kant, 300 years from now," University of Catania, October 2024
Le Cosmopolitisme d'Immanuel Kant, Cité des Sciences Tunis, Goethe-Institut Tunis, September 2024
Kantian Cosmopolitanism, Hostility and Disrespect (with Martin Sticker), 8. Aretai Konferenz "Ethos and virtue: theoretical and practical perspectives", University of Bari, September 2024
Kant on Poverty, 14. International Kant Congress "Kants Projekt der Aufklärung," University of Bonn, September 2024
Kant's Formula of Humanity and Migration, 14. International Kant Congress "Kants Projekt der Aufklärung," University of Bonn, September 2024; Workshop "Democracy and Rationality," University of Sarajevo, May 2024; Philosophy Colloquium, New School for Social Research, May 2024
Kant on Poverty, Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends, Südamerikanisch-deutsche Kant-Konferenz 2024: "Kant and Our Present Times: Climate Change, Poverty, Expertise, and Education," Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW, online, August 2024
Rechts- und Tugendpflichten im Kontext von Migration [Duties of Right and Virtue in the Context of Migration], Internationale Tagung "Recht und Ethik in Kants Metaphysik der Sitten", Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, June 2024
Moderation of Colloquium, "Kant und die Antike," Universität Bonn, June 2024
Universal Citizenship & International Cooperation, "Kant Tischgespräche," Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, June 2024
Kant über Pflichten gegen andere und das Problem der Armut, Kant-Vortragsreihe: Kant und die Gegenwart. Digitalen Kant-Forum NRW / Universität Bonn, April 2024
Kant and Uber Drivers, Project workshop, Lancaster, November 2023
Kant, Migration and the Right not to be Treated with Hostility, Keynote Lecture, Conference "The Space of Feelings: Kant and His Legacy," University of Parma, August 2023
Recent relevant publications
2026 Kant und die Antike. De Gruyter (co-edited with S Weber, R Schäfer, & A Schriefl)
2025 Kant, Migration, and the Cosmopolitan Right Not to Be Treated with Hostility, in: N Sánchez Madrid & A Taraborrelli (eds.), Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Migration: Historical and Interpretative Essays, De Gruyter, 159-179
2023 Two Faces of Dignity: A Kantian Perspective on Uber Drivers’ Fight for Decent Working Conditions (with Sophie Bernard). The Conversation
2023 Beyond Non-Instrumentalization: Migration and Dignity within a Kantian Framework (with Garrath Williams), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (special issue on Kant and Poverty, eds. C Mieth, M Sticker & G Williams), 26(2), 209-224
2022 Blindspots in the Formula of Humanity (with Jacob Rosenthal), in: C Horn & R dos Santos (eds.), Kant's Theory of Value. De Gruyter: Berlin, 89-104
2022 Poverty, Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends (with Garrath Williams), in: A Cureton & J-W von de Rijt (eds.), Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends, Routledge, 206-223 [preprint here]