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Prof. Dr. Philippe van Baßhuysen
Prof. Dr. Philippe van Baßhuysen
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Address
Otto-Brenner-Str. 1-3
30159 Hannover
30159 Hannover
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Prof. Dr. Philippe van Baßhuysen
Professors
Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
Profile
Philippe van Baßhuysen holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the London School of Economics (2019). Prior to this, he completed a Master of Science in philosophy of science at the LSE, after studying philosophy, mathematics and social sciences at Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has been a research associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the LSE since 2019.
He is currently a postdoc (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the LUH in the project 'Bias and Discrimination in Big Data and Algorithmic Processing'. He frequently appears in public debates on topics such as climate change, migration or health policy.
Main Areas of Research and Teaching
Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE)
Public Health
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy & Public Policy
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Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
forthcoming Rationality in Games and Institutions, Synthese. forthcoming The Epistemic Duties of Philosophers: An Addendum
joint with Lucie White, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.forthcoming Were Lockdowns Justified? A Return to the Facts and Evidence
joint with Lucie White, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.forthcoming Without a Trace: Why Did Corona Apps Fail? joint with Lucie White, Journal of Medical Ethics. 2021 Mit Kontaktdaten gegen die Pandemie: Zur Ethik von Corona Warn-Apps joint with Lucie White, Ethik in der Medizin, 33(3):387-400. 2021 joint with Lucie White, Donal Khosrowi und Mathias Frisch, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, 14(1):110-127. 2021 Privacy versus Public Health? A Reassessment of Centralised and Decentralised Digital Contact Tracing joint with Lucie White, Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(2):1-13.
2021 How To Build an Institution, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51(2):215-238. 2020 How to Overcome Lockdown: Selective Isolation versus Contact Tracing joint with Lucie White, Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(11):724-725. 2020 Kidney Exchange and the Ethics of Giving, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 18(1):85-110. 2018
Comment on 'The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions' joint with Eric Brandstedt, Environmental Research Letters 13, 048001.
2017
Towards a Fair Distribution Mechanism for Asylum, Games 8(41).
2015
Dawid, Hartmann, Sprenger on the No Alternatives Argument: an empiricist note, Kriterion, 29(1):35-47.
Newspaper and Blog Articles
2021 Bad data and flawed models? Fact-checking Winsberg et al.’s case against lockdowns (mit Lucie White), LSE Philosophy Blog, 26/01/2021. 2020 Zur Ethik der Crossover-Nierenspende, DIATRA 2-2020 2019
Zur Klimapolitik der FDP: Ziellos und irreführend, die Tageszeitung, 10/07/2019.
2018
Zur Debatte über Organspenden in Deutschland: Niere hin, Niere her, die Tageszeitung, 23/07/2018.
Reproductive choices and climate change part 1: can you reduce your emissions by having fewer children? LSE Philosophy Blog, 22/03/2018.
Kinderlos das Klima retten? Frankfurter Rundschau, 22/03/2018.
2016
Towards a fairer distribution of refugees, LSE's philosophy and mathematics blogs, 2016.
Reviews
2019
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl) Review of Political Economy 31(1), 137-141, 2019.
2017
The Prisoner's Dilemma (M. Peterson, ed.), Economics and Philosophy 33(1), 153-160, 2017.
The World the Game Theorists Made (by Paul Erickson), The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24(2), 403-406, 2017.
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Teaching
Leibniz University Hannover
SoSe 2021 - Future Ethics (Master’s Level Seminar)
SoSe 2020 - Markets: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Master's Level Seminar, joint with Lucie White)
WiSe 2019/20
- Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Master’s Level Seminar)
London School of Economics
2019
- Genes, Brains and Society (Undergraduate Seminars)
2018 - Competitive Strategy and Game Theory (Summer School: intermediate level)
2017 - Competitive Strategy and Game Theory (Summer School: intermediate level)
2016/17 - Logic (Undergraduate Seminars)
2015/16 - Logic (Undergraduate Seminars)
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Grants, Scholarships and Prizes
2020 Volkswagen Foundation, Project: "Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Discrimination: On the Ethics of Fighting Corona" 18 months, 120,000 Euro (with Mathias Frisch and Lucie White) 2020 PPE Young Scholars Award for research on social and institutional change Witten/Herdecke University 2015-19 LSE Ph.D. Studentship 2015-16 Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2014 Imre Lakatos Prize, awarded by the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at LSE 2012 DAAD Scholarship for exchange year at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)