Publications

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Henne, Paul, Wiktoria Pedryc, Benjamin Deichen, Alexander Max Bauer, Annika Sankner, Saniya Varghese, and Isaiah Moonlight (submitted): “The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered.”
• Schippers, Michael, Mark Siebel, Stephan Kornmesser, and Alexander Max Bauer (in preparation): “So Close and Yet So Far. Why Measures of Divergence and Similarity Make Bad Measures of Coherence.”
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Stephan Kornmesser, Mark Alfano, Aurélien Allard, Lucien Baumgartner, Florian Cova, Paul Engelhardt, Eugen Fischer, Henrike Meyer, Kevin Reuter, Justin Sytsma, Kyle Thompson, and Marc Wyszynski (in preparation): Experimentelle Philosophie. Eine Einführung in Methoden und Werkzeuge, Berlin: J.B. Metzler.

Monographs

• Bauer, Alexander Max (forthcoming): Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice, Paderborn: mentis. (Link) (Repository)
• Kornmesser, Stephan, Alexander Max Bauer, Mark Alfano, Aurélien Allard, Lucien Baumgartner, Florian Cova, Paul Engelhardt, Eugen Fischer, Henrike Meyer, Kevin Reuter, Justin Sytsma, Kyle Thompson, and Marc Wyszynski (2024): Experimental Philosophy for Beginners. A Gentle Introduction to Methods and Tools, Cham: Springer. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2024): Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit, Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg Press. (Link) (Repository)

Contributions to Monographs With Multiple Authors

• Bauer, Alexander Max, Stephan Kornmesser, and Henrike Meyer (2024): “Constative and Performative Utterances, Χ² Tests, and LimeSurvey,” in: Stephan Kornmesser, Alexander Max Bauer, Mark Alfano, Aurélien Allard, Lucien Baumgartner, Florian Cova, Paul Engelhardt, Eugen Fischer, Henrike Meyer, Kevin Reuter, Justin Sytsma, Kyle Thompson, and Marc Wyszynski: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners. A Gentle Introduction to Methods and Tools, Cham: Springer, 19–88. (Link)

Journals

• Baratella, Nils, Alexander Max Bauer, Helena Esther Grass, and Stephan Kornmesser (eds.) (2022): “Verschwörungserzählungen,” special issue, Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 9 (2). (Link)

Contributions to Journals

• Bauer, Alexander Max, Adele Diederich, Stefan Traub, and Arne Robert Weiss (forthcoming): “Thinking About Need. A Vignette Experiment on Need-Based Distributive Justice,” The Journal of Economic Inequality. (peer-reviewed) (Repository)
• Kornmesser, Stephan, and Alexander Max Bauer (2023): “Austin in the Lab. Empirically Reconsidering the Constative-Performative Distinction,” Topics in Linguistics 24 (2), 1–14. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Jan Romann, Mark Siebel, and Stefan Traub (2023): “Winter is Coming. How Laypeople Think About Different Kinds of Needs,” PLoS ONE 18 (11), e0294572. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Stephan Kornmesser (2023): “Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments. Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation,” Philosophy of Science 90 (3), 489–517. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Wyszynski, Marc, and Alexander Max Bauer (2023): “Give What’s Required and Take Only What You Need! The Effect of Framing on Rule-Breaking in Social Dilemmas,” Judgment and Decision Making 18, e17. (peer-reviewed) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Frauke Meyer, Jan Romann, Mark Siebel, and Stefan Traub (2022): “Need, Equity, and Accountability. Evidence on Third-Party Distribution Decisions from a Vignette Study,” Social Choice and Welfare 59, 769–814. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Jan Romann (2022): “Answers at Gunpoint. On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case,” Philosophy of Science 89 (1), 180–192. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2022): “Sated but Thirsty. A Prolegomenon to Multidimensional Measures of Need-Based Justice,” Axiomathes 32, 529–538. (peer-reviewed) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2021): “Christian Neuhäuser. Wie reich darf man sein? Über Gier, Neid und Gerechtigkeit,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 75 (1), 160–164. (book review) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2019): “Christian Neuhäuser. Reichtum als moralisches Problem,” Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 2 (2), 381–385. (book review) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2017): “Axiomatic Foundations for Metrics of Distributive Justice Shown by the Example of Needs-Based Justice,” “forsch!” – Studentisches Online-Journal der Universität Oldenburg 3 (1), 43–60. (peer-reviewed) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2017): “Axiomatische Überlegungen zu Grundlagen für Maße der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit am Beispiel von Bedarfsgerechtigkeit,” “forsch!” – Studentisches Online-Journal der Universität Oldenburg 3 (1), 23–42. (peer-reviewed) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2016): “Über die Frage, ob wir uns dazu entscheiden können, etwas zu glauben. Wider eines idealisierten Verständnisses des doxastischen Voluntarismus,” “forsch!” – Studentisches Online-Journal der Universität Oldenburg 2 (2), 10–21. (peer-reviewed) (Link)

Edited Volumes

• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Helena Esther Grass (eds.) (2024): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2021/2022, Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg Press. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Gregor Damschen, and Mark Siebel (eds.) (2023): Paradoxien. Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissen) bis Z(eit), Paderborn: mentis. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Stephan Kornmesser (eds.) (2023): The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Nils Baratella (eds.) (2021): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2019/2020, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.) (2020) (paperback edition 2021): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.) (2019) (paperback edition 2021): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Nils Baratella (eds.) (2019): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. (Link)

Contributions to Edited Volumes

• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Jan Romann (2024): “Equal Deeds, Different Needs. Need, Accountability, and Resource Availability in Third-Party Distribution Decisions,” in: Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols (eds.): Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, vol. 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 7–31. (peer-reviewed) (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Mark Siebel (2024): “Measuring Need-Based Justice. Empirically and Formally,” in: Bernhard Kittel and Stefan Traub (eds.): Priority of Needs? An Informed Theory of Need-Based Justice, Cham: Springer, 61–94. (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2021): “Babylonische Befindlichkeiten. Hans-Helmuth Bruns’ ‘Babel in Deutschland’,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Nils Baratella (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2019/2020, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 283–290. (book review) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2020): “Two Worlds on the Brink of Colliding. On the Relationship Between Empirical Research and Normative Theory,” in: id. (eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 11–33. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2019): “Zur Grundlegung empirisch informierter Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit. Zwei Desiderata zwischen normativer Theorie, formaler Modellierung und empirischer Sozialforschung,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 179–220. (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2019): “Zwei Welten am Rande der Kollision. Zum Verhältnis von empirischer Forschung und normativer Theorie, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der Ethik,” in: id. (eds.): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 13–37. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2019): “‘Wahrheit ist, was uns verbindet.’ Den Absolventinnen und Absolventen der Fakultät IV zum Geleit,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Nils Baratella (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 353–357. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2019): “Gerechtigkeit und Bedürfnis. Perspektiven auf den Begriff des ‘Bedürfnisses’ vor dem Hintergrund der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Nils Baratella (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 285–327. (Link)

Prefaces, Introductions, Epilogues, and the Like

• Kornmesser, Stephan, Alexander Max Bauer, Mark Alfano, Aurélien Allard, Lucien Baumgartner, Florian Cova, Paul Engelhardt, Eugen Fischer, Henrike Meyer, Kevin Reuter, Justin Sytsma, Kyle Thompson, and Marc Wyszynski (2024): “Introduction. Setting Out for New Shores,” in: id.: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners. A Gentle Introduction to Methods and Tools, Cham: Springer, 1–18. (Link)
• Grass, Helena Esther, and Alexander Max Bauer (2024): “Vorwort,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Helena Esther Grass (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2021/2022, Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg Press, 7–10. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Gregor Damschen, and Mark Siebel (2023): “Vorwort,” in: id. (eds.): Paradoxien. Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissen) bis Z(eit), Paderborn: mentis, VII–XIII. (Link)
• Kornmesser, Stephan, and Alexander Max Bauer (2023): “Introduction,” in: Alexander Max Bauer and Stephan Kornmesser (eds.): The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 1–5. (Link)
• Baratella, Nils, Alexander Max Bauer, Helena Esther Grass, and Stephan Kornmesser (2022): “Einleitung. Verschwörungserzählungen,” Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 9 (2), 105–112. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Nils Baratella (2021): “Vorwort,” in: id. (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2019/2020, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 5. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2020): “Epilogue. On Doxa and Aletheia,” in: id. (eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 337–342. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2020): “Introduction,” in: id. (eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 1–10. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2020): “Preface,” in: id. (eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, VII–VIII. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2019): “Epilog. Zwischen doxa und aletheia,” in: id. (eds.): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 221–225. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2019): “Einleitung,” in: id. (eds.): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 1–11. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (2019): “Vorwort,” in: id. (eds.): Philosophie zwischen Sein und Sollen. Normative Theorie und empirische Forschung im Spannungsfeld, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, XI–XII. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, and Nils Baratella (2019): “Vorwort,” in: id. (eds.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 5. (Link)

Working Papers

• Henne, Paul, Wiktoria Pedryc, Benjamin Deichen, Alexander Max Bauer, Annika Sankner, Saniya Varghese, and Isaiah Moonlight (2025): “The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered,” OSF Preprints. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Adele Diederich, Stefan Traub, and Arne Robert Weiss (2023): “Thinking About Need. A Vignette Experiment on Need-Based Distributive Justice,” SSRN Working Paper 4503209. (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Jan Romann, Mark Siebel, and Stefan Traub (2023): “Winter is Coming. How Laypeople Think About Different Kinds of Needs,” SSRN Working Paper 4383555. (Link) (Repository)
• Wyszynski, Marc, and Alexander Max Bauer (2022): “Give What You Can, Take What You Need. The Effect of Framing on Rule-Breaking Behavior in Social Dilemmas,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2022-01. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max, Frauke Meyer, Jan Romann, Mark Siebel, and Stefan Traub (2020): “Need, Equity, and Accountability. Evidence on Third-Party Distributive Decisions from an Online Experiment,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2020-01. (Link) (Repository)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2018): “Sated but Thirsty. Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Need-Based Justice,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2018-03. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2018): “Monotonie und Monotoniesensitivität als Desiderata für Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit. Zu zwei Aspekten der Grundlegung empirisch informierter Maße der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit zwischen normativer Theorie, formaler Modellierung und empirischer Sozialforschung,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2018-01. (Link) (Repository)
• Weiss, Arne Robert, Alexander Max Bauer, and Stefan Traub (2017): “Needs as Reference Points. When Marginal Gains to the Poor do not Matter,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2017-13. (Link)
• Traub, Stefan, Alexander Max Bauer, Mark Siebel, Nils Springhorn, and Arne Robert Weiss (2017): “On the Measurement of Need-Based Justice,” FOR 2104 Working Paper 2017-12. (Link)

Translations

• Priest, Graham (2023): “Paradoxie und Parakonsistenz,” transl. by Alexander Max Bauer, Gregor Damschen, and Mark Siebel, in: id. (eds.): Paradoxien. Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissen) bis Z(eit), Paderborn: mentis, 225–248. (Link)

Public Writing

• Bauer, Alexander Max (2025): “Die Dinge, die wir sammeln. Designdokumente als historische Schätze,” gespielt – Blog des Arbeitskreises Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2024): “Teaching Experimental Philosophy to Beginners (Part 1),” The Experimental Philosophy Blog. (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2021): “The Revolver Case Revisited,” The New X-Phi Blog and The Experimental Philosophy Blog. (Link) (Link)
• Bauer, Alexander Max (2020): “‘Was mache ich hier überhaupt?’ Experimentelle Philosophie zwischen Lehnstuhl und Labor,” philosophie.ch – Swiss Portal for Philosophy and praefaktisch.de – Ein Philosophieblog. (Link) (Link)

Dissertation

• Bauer, Alexander Max (2024): Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit, dissertation, Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg. (Link) (Repository)