 Her Chicago seminars usually take a textualist approach to philosophical, literary, and historical works.In a research capacity at MPIWG she heads Department 2, "Ideals and Practices of Rationality," and has concentrated recently on the late-Enlightenment philosophical conceptualization of reason, and the subsequent rise of a rationality based in algorithms and rules.A frequent subject of past inquiry has been the naturalistic fallacy in philosophy and literature, or "the almost irresistible temptation to attempt to extract moral norms from the world of nature."