Dr. Marius Baumann
Academic Director
Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Personal information
Since 2021, Marius Baumann has been the academic director of the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice. Before that, he was the interim academic director of the Munich Center for Ethics and a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Ethics and Practical Philosophy. He received his PhD from Bern University and has been a visiting researcher at Reading University, Brown University, and the London School of Economics.
Curriculum vitae
- 2021 -
- Center for Ethics and Phlosophy in Practice (ZEPP), LMU Munich (DE), Academic Director
- Spring 2020
- London School of Economics (UK), research visit
- 2019 - 2021
- Münchner Kompetenzzentrum Ethik, LMU Munich (DE), interim Academic Director
- 2018 - 2021
- LMU Munich (DE), Research Associate
- 2018
- Bern University (CH), PhD in Philosophy
- Spring 2016
- Reading University (UK), Visiting Research Fellow
- Autumn 2015
- Brown University (USA), Visiting Research Fellow
- 2014
- Bern University (CH), MA in Political, Legal, and Economic Philosophy
- 2012
- University of Zurich (CH), BA in Philosophy and German Literature and Linguistics
Research interests
Marius Baumann is currently working on the role of the concept of merit in liberal societies. In his PhD thesis, he defended the idea that just as scientific theories can be underdetermined by empirical data, so can moral theories be underdetermined by our particular deontic verdicts. He has investigated the upshots of this idea for both normative ethics and metaethics.
Selected publications
- Baumann, M.: The Underdetermination of Moral Theories. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming).
- Baumann, M.: Michael Sandel on Meritocracy and the Populist Threat to Liberalism: A Critical Assessment, in: J. F. Müller & K. Horn (eds.), Liberal Responses to the Twin Challenge of Populism. Berlin: De Gruyter. (forthcoming).
- Baumann, M.: Hierarchy, Efficiency, and Merit, in: K. Mathis. & A. Tor (eds.), Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship 17. (forthcoming).
- Baumann, M.: Moral Underdetermination and a New Skeptical Challenge. Synthese 200(208): 1-22. (2022).
- Baumann, M.: No Fact of the Matter: The Case of Dirty Hands. Metaphilosophy 52(1): 466-478. (2021).
- Baumann, M.: In Search of the Trinity: A Dilemma for Parfit’s Conciliatory Project. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24(1): 999-1018. (2021).
- Baumann, M.: Consequentializing and Underdetermination. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97(3): 511-527. (2019).
- Baumann, M.: Parfit, Convergence, and Underdetermination. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13(3): 191-221. (2018).