Postdoc (affiliated)
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2073
Institut für Philosophie
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Lange Laube 6
30167 Hannover
Germany
Room 223
Phone: +49 (0) 511 / 762 – 3052
E-Mail: leon-philip.schaefer@philos.uni-hannover.de
Web: University Website

Research Project
Scientific and Moral Realism (completed in June 2021)
CV
since 07/2021
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hanover
01/2021 – 06/2021
Start-Up Funding for Early-Career Researchers (“Anschubförderung”) at DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2073 Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research, Leibniz University Hanover
2017 – 2020
Doctoral candidate at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2073 Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research, Leibniz University Hanover
05/2017 – 09/2017
Research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the excellence cluster REBIRTH.
2014 – 2017
Philosophy of Science (Master of Arts, with distinction), Leibniz University Hanover
2011 – 2014
Philosophy and Physics (Bachelor of Arts), Leibniz University Hanover
Peer-reviewed Publications
(2019) “An ambiguity in Habermas’s argument against liberal eugenics”. Bioethics 33(9), 1059–1064.
(2014) „Die partielle Bestimmung des transzendentalen Ideals. Eine Untersuchung zu Kants Gottesbegriff“. Incipiens – Zeitschrift für Erstpublikationen aus der Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte 2(1), 29–55.
Presentations and Talks
„Moralischer und Wissenschaftlicher Realismus”. VII. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, September 26th & 27th 2019 in Salzburg, Austria, September 27th 2019
„Mind-Independence as the Metaphysical Core Thesis of Scientific and Moral Realism”. 7th Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), September 11th – 14th 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11th2019
„Objectivity as Mind-Independence – Integrating Scientific and Moral Realism“. 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST), August 5th – 10th 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic, August 6th 2019
„Kantische Ethik im Rahmen des ethischen Intuitionismus“. VI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, September 27th & 28th 2018 in Salzburg, Austria, September 28th 2018
Teaching
- Seminar (SoSe 2019): “Metaethik” (Leibniz University Hanover)
- Tutorial (WiSe 2016/2017): “Einführung in die Geschichte der Philosophie I” (Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt) (Leibniz University Hanover)
- Tutorial (SoSe 2016): “Einführung in die praktische Philosophie” (Prof. Dr. Dietmar Hübner) (Leibniz University Hanover)
- Tutorial (WiSe 2015/2016): “Einführung in die Geschichte der Philosophie I” (Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt) (Leibniz University Hanover)