Institute of Philosophy

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Marcel Twele

Postdoc

Practical Philosophy

E-Mail
marcel.twele@unibe.ch
Office
B214
Postal Address
Universität Bern
Institut für Philosophie
Länggassstrasse 49a
3012 Bern

Academic Positions:

2010-2015 BA in Philosophy / Minor: Regionalstudies Asia and Africa (Humboldt-University of Berlin).

2015-2017 MA in Philosophy (Humboldt-University of Berlin).

2018-2020 PhD in Philosophy (Humboldt-University of Berlin).

2018-2021 Research associate at the chair of Political Philosophy and Environmental Ethics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, IRITHESys.

2019 (fallterm) Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Boston, USA.

 

Publications:

2016 „Von Menschenrechten und Hilfspflichten“ (Human Rights and the duty to aid), in: Welche und wie viele Flüchtlinge sollen wir aufnehmen?, Ed. Thomas Grundmann & Achim Stephan, Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag.

2021 „Armut und Chancengleichheit“ (Poverty and Equality of Opportunity), in: Handbuch Philosophie und Armut, Ed. Gottfried Schweiger & Clemens Sedmak, Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag.

2022 „What Libertarians (Should) Think About Inheritance Taxation“, in: Res Publica.

 

Research and interests:

Distributive Justice, Egalitarianism, Theories of Well-being, Public Reason, Inheritance Taxation, Philosophy of Economics.