Marcel Twele

Postdoc, PLEP Study Consultation

Practical Philosophy

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

Academic Positions:

2021 - present  Postdoc and Student Advisor (for PLEP) at the Department of Practical Philosophy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2025 (Spring) Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2024 (Spring)   Visiting Scholar at Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2019 (Fall)        Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Boston, USA
2018 - 2021        Research Associate at the chair of Political Philosophy and Environmental Ethics
2018 - 2020        PhD in Philosophy (Humboldt-University of Berlin)
2015 - 2017        MA in Philosophy (Humboldt-University of Berlin)
2015 - 2017        BA in Philosophy / Minor: Regionalstudies Asia and Africa (Humboldt-University of Berlin)

 

Publications:

2023 Warum wir eine Erbschaftssteuer brauchen: Eine philosophische Verteidigung, in: Ideen & Argumente, DeGruyter
2022 „What Libertarians (Should) Think About Inheritance Taxation“, in: Res Publica
2021  „Armut und Chancengleichheit“ (Poverty and Equality of Opportunity), in: Handbuch Philosophie und Armut, Ed. Gottfried Schweiger & Clemens Sedmak, Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag
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

 

Research and interests:

Philosophy of Work, Welfare Conditionality, Distributive Justice, Egalitarianism, Theories of Well-being, Public Reason, Philosophy of Economics, Inheritance Taxation