International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Participants

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Birnbacher
Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
Department of Philosophy
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/philo/personal/ptphil/birnbacher/ 

Prof. Dr. Kristján Kristjánsson
University of Birmingham
School of Education, Jubilee Centre for Character and Values
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/kristjansson-kristjan.aspx 

Dr. Franz Mechsner
Biologist and Science Journalist, Northumbria University
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Franz_Mechsner2/  

Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedo Ricken
Munich School of Philosophy, Munich
http://www.hfph.mwn.de/lehrkoerper/lehrende/ricken/index_html 

Prof. Dr. Neil Roughley
University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Philosophy
http://www.uni-due.de/philosophie/personen.php?ID=127
http://www.uni-due.de/~se753pa/arbeitsgruppe_roughley/index.html 

Prof. Dr. Ronald de Sousa
University of Toronto
Department of Philosophy
http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/emeritus-professors-active-in-teaching/ronald-de-sousa
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/ 

Prof. Dr. Jan E. Stets
University of California
Department of Sociology
http://www.sociology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/stets/
http://wat1224.ucr.edu/

Junior Researchers

Dr. Kirsten Brukamp
University of Rostock
History of Medicine

Dr. Nathan Emmerich
Queens University Belfast
School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy

Nathan Emmerich is a Social Theorist whose research focuses on Ethics, Education and Expertise, with a general focus on Medical and Bio- ethics. He also has a particular interest in the ethics and ethical governance of social scientific research.

http://qub.academia.edu/NathanEmmerich

Dr. Michael von Grundherr
Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences

Michael von Grundherr is a philosopher, his research focuses on moral psychology and ethics.

http://www.neuro.philosophie.lmu.de/ 
www.neuro.philosophie.lmu.de/people/team/grundherr/index.html

Dr. Liz Gulliford
University of Birmingham
School of Education, Jubilee Centre for Character and Values

Liz Gulliford is a Research Fellow with an interdisciplinary background in Theology and Psychology. Her current research focus is on the topic of gratitude, which she is examining from philosophical and psychological perspectives.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/education/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=46072

David Hall
University of Oxford
St Antony’s College

David Hall is a political theorist, his research focus deals with moral psychology and the philosophy of politics, ethics and social science.

http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/ 
 http://oxford.academia.edu/DavidHall

Dr. Robert Hepach
University of Leipzig
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Robert Hepach is developmental psychologist. His researcher focuses on the ontogeny and phylogeny of prosocial behavior. In particular, he studies the motivational mechanisms underlying behavior that benefits others using both behavioral and physiological measures.

http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/hepach/index.php

Maciej Juzaszek
Jagiellonian University
Department of Professional Ethics and Department of Legal Theory

Maciej Juzaszek is a philosopher and a lawyer, his research focus deals with philosophy and psychology of moral intuitions, analytical legal philosophy and problem of moral and legal luck. He is a doctoral student and works as a scientific assistant at the Department of Professional Ethics at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He is also a doctoral student at the Department of Legal Theory at the same university.

http://jagiellonian.academia.edu/MaciejJuzaszek

Peter Königs
University of Tuebingen
Department of Philosophy

Peter Königs is a philosopher, his research focus is on metaethics and political philosophy. He is a PhD student at the University of Tuebingen.

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/philosophie-rhetorik-medien/philosophisches-seminar/startseite.html

Dr. Alissa MacMillan
Toulouse School of Economics
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

http://www.iast.fr/ 
http://www.iast.fr/member/alissa-macmillan

Dr. Jonas Nagel
University of Goettingen
Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology

Jonas Nagel is a cognitive scientist, his research focus deals with moral judgment and causal reasoning.

http://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/cognition/team/nagel

Dr. Mariola Paruzel-Czachura
University of Silesia
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology

Mariola Paruzel-Czachura is PhD-scientist, her research focus is on empirical moral psychology and relations between psychology and ethics.

www.mariola.paruzel.us.edu.pl

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Retkowski
University of Kassel
Department of Social and Human Sciences

Alexandra Retkowski is a social scientist, her research focus is on sexuality and power in pedagogical institutions.

http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb01/personen/homepages/alexandra-retkowski/jun-prof-dr-alexandra-retkowski.html

Dr. Alexander Stingl
Drexel University Philadelphia
College of Arts & Sciences

Alexander I. Stingl is a is a researcher in science studies. His research focuses on the genealogy and media-archeology of techno-scientific governance, the construction of public-science discourses, and technologies of the embodied self between the material agencies of body, state, and the political imagination.

http://www.drexel.edu/sts/contact/facultyDirectory/StinglAlexander

Janett Triskiel
Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
Research Center for Neurophilosophy and Ethics of Neuroscience

Janett Triskiel is a PhD-student at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU). Her main research interests are in moral psychology, theories of emotions (psychological, philosophical, neuroscientific), models of moral judgment and decision making, metaethics, and the relation between emotion, affects, intuitions and moral judgment.

http://www.neuro.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de 
​​​​​​​http://www.neuro.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/phd-students/triskiel/index.html

Stefan Walter
University of Leipzig
Institute of Sociology

Stefan Walter is sociologist, his research focus deals with the political socialization of attitudes, values and behaviors. He is PhD student at the Institute for Sociology at the Leipzig University.

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/content/site/index.php

Alex Wiegmann
University of Goettingen
Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology

Alex Wiegmann is a cognitive-scientist, his research focus deals with questions about moral judgment: Which factors influence moral judgments and what are the underlying psychological processes?

https://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/cognition/team/wiegmann​​​​​​​