Welcome!

Hi there, my name’s Max. I’m a postdoctoral research associate (‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’) at the University of Oldenburg’s Department of Philosophy, mainly working at the intersection of philosophy and empirical social research in an area known as ‘experimental philosophy’ (or ‘x-phi’ for short). Together with Stephan Kornmesser and Mark Siebel, I founded The Oldenburg Experimental Philosophy Laboratory. If you want to know what’s happening in the world of x-phi right now, visit The Experimental Philosophy Blog, which I maintain. If you want to learn more about me, feel free to take a look at my

• publications,
• presentations,
• teaching,
• events,
• education,
• employment and academic path,
• services to the profession, or
• grants, bursaries, and honours.

Most of this information can also be found in my curriculum vitae, which is available in its most recent English version here and in German here. If that’s not enough, you may also be interested in taking a look at my

• latest news,
• current projects,
• brilliant collaborators,
• academic ancestry, or
• contact details.

Still not enough? Inspired by Gilad Feldman, I invite you to check and replicate my empirical work. Of course, replies to my theoretical work are equally welcome. And inspired by David Strohmaier, I have started compiling a chronological list of academic literature I have recently read.

By the way, the portrait to the left (or above, if you’re on a mobile device) was painted by the talented Liri Runa in the art style of Disco Elysium.

Areas and Tools

Areas of Specialization:

Experimental Philosophy, Need-Based Distributive Justice, Causation

Areas of Competence:

Game Studies, Distributive Justice, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics

Areas of Interest:

Digital Humanities, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Language

Historical Focus:

Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche

Tools of Choice:

LaTeX, LimeSurvey, Stata, R, Python

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