Philosophy

Matthew Braham has been Professor of Practical Philosophy at Universität Hamburg since 2017. His research is in all three PEP disciplines, focusing on power, freedom, causation, responsibility, Kant, libertarianism, and voting rules. Braham's research is characterized by the application of formal methods of game theory and social choice. His work is published in leading journals: Mind, The Journal of Philosophy,  Erkenntnis, Economics & Philosophy, The Economic Journal, International Journal of Law & Economics, Social Choice & Welfare, Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Thomas Kroedel has been Professor of Philosophy of Science at Universität Hamburg since 2017. He holds a B.Phil. and a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford. His areas of specialization are philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind and metaphysics. He has published articles in leading journals such as Analysis, Noûs and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and a monograph on mental causation with Cambridge University Press.

Judith Simon is Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at Universität Hamburg. Holding a MA in psychology from the Free University of Berlin and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna, her current research focuses on epistemological, ethical and political questions related to data analytics, artificial intelligence and digitalization in general. She is a member of the German Ethics Council as well as various committees of the DFG, BMBF and the Leopoldina.

Christine Straehle is professor for practical philosophy. Her research focuses on the ethics of migration, questions of global justice and conceptions of vulnerability and autonomy in moral philosophy. She is editor or co-editor of several volumes, most recently The Political Philosophy of Refuge (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and is editor for the interdisciplinary journal Global Justice. Before coming to Hamburg,  Straehle was Inaugural Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands where she also held the Chair in Philosophy and Public Affairs and Professor for Ethics at the University of Ottawa.