GRK researchers’ projects investigate topics linking ethics and epistemology of science, such as the status of policy advice on the basis of computer simulations in climate science, the balancing of research goals and ethical aspects of medical treatment in clinical trials, the appropriate role of intellectual property in science, and the prospects of social scientific research on the basis of social network data.
Doctoral Projects
Markus Ahlers
Artificial Intelligence and the Constitution of Social Systems
George Barimah
TBC
Birgit Benzing
TBC
Rui F. de Souza Só Maia
Narratives and Model-Based Reasoning in Economics
Markus Dressel
Values in Scientific Policy Advice
Philipp Eichenberger
The tacit assumptions of scientific practices and experimental setups in positive psychology
Dr. Robert Frühstückl
TBC
Minea Gartzlaff
Strategies to combine practical usefulness and epistemic merit of research in the life sciences
Ina Gawel
TBC
Lisa Heller
Was, wenn nicht Wahrheit? Probleme und Potentiale des Relativismus
Hannah Hilligardt
(Political) Representation in Science and Science Policy
Anna Elisabeth Höhl
Scientific Understanding – What it is and How it is Achieved
Simon Hollnaicher
The Ethics of Integrated Assessment Modelling
Jonas Lipski
Theory Choice in Economics and its Roots in Assumption about individual Behavior
Dr. Luis Lopez
TBC
Dijana Magđinski Tolić
Philosophy of Science at the Intersection of the Priority Rule, Replicability and Scientific Novelty
Basel Myhub
Identifying Strategies for Practically Useful and Epistemically Sound Research in Chemistry
Anja Pichl
Exploring Limits of Biological Knowledge at the Example of Stem Cell Research
Leon-Philip Schäfer
Scientific and Moral Realism (thesis submitted in December 2020)
Tobias Schönwitz
Organise!? An Institutional Approach to Values in Science on the Example of Biodiversity Research
David Stöllger
Expertise and the Limits of Public Participation in the Context of Communicable Disease Outbreaks
Fabio Tollon
TBC
Henrik Roeland Visser
A Philosophical Analysis of Expert Judgments in Economics
Martin Wasmer
Ontology of Genome Editing in Agriculture for Legal Purposes and Ethics
Postdoctoral Projects
Dr. Stefano Canali
Evidence in Data-Centric Health Sciences
Dr. des. Enno Fischer
Causation in Experimental Physics
Dr. Anna Leuschner
Science, Objectivity, and Power: A Critique of Social Pluralism
Dr. Morgan Thompson
TBC
Completed Projects
Dr. Stefano Canali
The Role of Data in Contemporary Biomedicine: A Data-Centric Study of the Exposome (completed in 2019)
Dr. des. Enno Fischer
Reasoning with Interventionist Causal Models (completed in 2020)
Dr. David Hopf
Imbalance and the State of Research. Emergent Challenges to the Independence of Science (completed in 2020)
Dr. des. Daria Jadreškić
Epistemological and Ethical Aspects of Time in Scientific Research (completed in 2020)
Dr. Saana Jukola
Amalgamating Scientific Evidence and Non-epistemic Values – The Case of Nutrition Guidelines (completed in 2020)
Dr. des. Julia Pfeiff
The construction and application of explanatory models of mental disorders in clinical psychology (completed in 2020)
