Dr. phil. Alexander Max Bauer

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Philosopher • Scholar • Scientist

Presentations

Invited

20/07/2024 Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments – Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation
presentation at the 2nd meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Causation; University of Göttingen; invited by Tom Wysocki (Slides)
08/12/2017 Mind the Gap – Zur Vermittlung von normativer Theorie und empirischer Forschung
presentation at the lecture series ‘Junge Philosophie’; Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft in Oldenburg; jointly with Malte Ingo Meyerhuber; invited by Ansgar Baumgart, Malte Maria Unverzagt, and Philip Penew
22/11/2016 Grundlagen für Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit – Axiomatische Überlegungen und empirische Untersuchungen
presentation at the Department of Philosophy’s colloquium; University of Oldenburg; jointly with Arne Robert Weiss; invited by Nils Baratella

Refereed

12/07/2025 Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice
presentation at the 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference; University of East Anglia (Slides)
20/06/2025 The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered
poster presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology; Cornell University; jointly with Paul Henne, Wiktoria Pedryc, Benjamin Deichen, Annika Sankner, Saniya Varghese, and Isaiah Moonlight
16/09/2023 Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments – Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation
presentation at the 3rd European Experimental Philosophy Conference; University of Zurich; attended online due to funding problems (Slides)
07/09/2021 Need and Responsibility – Experimental Philosophy Investigating Questions of Distributive Justice
presentation at the 25th Congress of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil); Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg; held online due to pandemic
23/08/2021 Give What You Can, Take What You Need – The Effect of Framing on Fraudulent Behavior in Social Dilemmas
poster presentation at the Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference; University of Warwick; jointly with Marc Wyszynski; held online due to pandemic
07/2021 Need and Responsibility – Experimental Philosophy on Questions of Distributive Justice
presentation accepted for the 18th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research; Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics; not attended due to unforeseen circumstances
18/06/2021 Austin in the Lab – Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Constative-Performative Distinction
poster presentation and blitz talk at the 1st European Experimental Philosophy Conference; Charles University in Prague; jointly with Stephan Kornmesser; held online due to pandemic
10/2020 Valides Werkzeug oder bloßes Rechenspiel? Zur moralischen Aussagekraft von Gedankenexperimenten
presentation accepted for the 8th Conference for Practical Philosophy; University of Salzburg; jointly with Malte Ingo Meyerhuber und Jan Romann; cancelled due to pandemic
24/07/2020 Need and Responsibility
presentation at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics; National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow; held online due to pandemic
21/06/2020 Need and Responsibility – Experimental Philosophy on Questions of Distributive Justice
presentation at the 1st European Experimental Philosophy Conference; Charles University in Prague; held online due to pandemic
05/2020 Need and Responsibility – Experimental Philosophy on Questions of Distributive Justice
presentation accepted for the 20th International Conference on Moral and Political Philosophy; Universitat de les Illes Balears; cancelled due to pandemic
16/06/2019 Modern Day Ethics Between Empirical Research and Normative Theory
presentation at the Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Filosofidagarna); Umeå Universitet
05/04/2019 Experiments on Needs-Based Justice – When Marginal Gains to the Poor do not Matter
presentation at the 12th Annual University at Albany Philosophical Association Graduate Conference ‘Rage Against the Armchair’; University at Albany, The State University of New York; commented by Sydney Faught
08/12/2018 Empirisch informierte Indizes der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit – Zu dem Versuch, Bedarfsgerechtigkeit zwischen normativer Theorie, mathematischer Formalisierung und empirischer Sozialforschung zu operationalisieren
presentation at the 10th Doctoral Student’s Symposium of the Austrian Philosophical Society (ÖGP); University of Klagenfurt
05/05/2018 Positive Psychologie zwischen empirischer Forschung und normativer Theorie
presentation at the 3rd Conference of the German Society for Positive Psychological Research (DGPPF); Ruhr University Bochum; jointly with Malte Ingo Meyerhuber
08/06/2016 Empirisch informierte Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit – Zwischen normativer Theorie, mathematischer Formalisierung und empirischer Sozialforschung
presentation at the congress of undergraduate research ‘forschen@studium’; University of Oldenburg

Other

03/06/2025 Distributive Justice and Reference Points
presentation at the lab meeting of the Experimental Philosophy Group; University of Zurich; attended online
14/02/2024 Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit
doctoral dissertation defence; University of Oldenburg (Slides)
22/05/2022 Measuring Need-Based Distributive Justice Normatively and Empirically
poster presentation at the Symposium on Need-Based Justice of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); University of Hamburg; jointly with Mark Siebel
14/02/2020 Types of Need
presentation at the workshop of the academic assistants of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); Jacobs University Bremen
12/02/2020 Need and Responsibility
presentation at the meeting of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); Jacobs University Bremen
22/11/2018 What Makes a Theory of Justice ‘Empirically Informed’? On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Integrating Empirical Research Into Normative Theory
presentation at the workshop of the academic assistants of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); University of Bremen
16/02/2018 ‘Wahrheit ist, was uns verbindet’
address at the graduation ceremony of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; University of Oldenburg
14/12/2017 Comparative and Non-Comparative Justice – An Experimental Investigation in the Domain of Needs-Based Justice
presentation at the workshop of the academic assistants of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); University of Oldenburg; jointly with Nils Springhorn
14/12/2017 Empirische interkulturelle Forschung zur Evaluation von Bedarfsgerechtigkeit vor dem Hintergrund von sozialisationsbedingten Verzerrungen
presentation at the workshop of the academic assistants of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); University of Oldenburg
28/10/2017 Empirische Forschung und normative Theorie – Eine Problembestimmung
presentation at the summer school ‘Empirical Research and Normative Theory’ at the ‘Oldenburg School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities 2017’ of the Graduate School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities (3GO); University of Oldenburg; jointly with Malte Ingo Meyerhuber
12/02/2016 Entwicklung eines empirisch gestützten Maßes der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit – Ein axiomatischer Ansatz
presentation at the meeting of the research group ‘Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures’ (FOR 2104) of the German Research Foundation (DFG); Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst; jointly with Mark Siebel
07/07/2015 Mögliche Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit – Überlegungen zu Vektoren und Logarithmen
presentation at Mark Siebel’s graduation colloquium; University of Oldenburg