CURRICULUM VITAE
Philipp Stehr
Utrecht, Netherlands
AREAS OF INTEREST
- political philosophy, especially of economic institutions
- business ethics
- political and social philosophy of resistance and social change
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
since 04/2025: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc), Munich School for Politics and Public Policy, Technical University of Munich
11/2024 - 07/2025: Docent (Fixed-term lecturer), Ethics Institute, Utrecht University
09/2020 - 10/2024: PhD Researcher, Utrecht University. Full-time position in Rutger Claassen’s ERC project ``The Business Corporation as a Political Actor’’
09/2022 - 12/2022: Visiting Research Fellow, Brown University. Host: Alex Gourevitch
04/2018 - 08/2020: Teaching and Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum. Chair of Practical Philosophy, esp. Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Prof. Corinna Mieth
EDUCATION
PhD in Philosophy, Utrecht University, 2025. Thesis Title: Democratizing Business Corporations. An Exercise in Transitional Theory. Available online Supervisors: Rutger Claassen and Maurits de Jongh. Examination committee: Alex Gourevitch, Christian Neuhäuser, Ingrid Robeyns, Lisa Herzog and Mauro Bonazzi
M. A. in “Ethics - Economics, Law and Politics (EELP)”, Ruhr-University Bochum, 2020
B. A. in Philosophy with a minor in Business Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 2017
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Expropriation as a Measure of Corporate Reform - Learning from the Berlin Initiative. European Journal of Political Theory, Online First. Link
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos? Political Theory, 51(3), 507-529 (2023) Link
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship. Under review.
A Right to Strike for Democratic Corporations? Under review.
A Democratic Right to Political Strikes. Under review.
Social Membership in Firms and the Ethics of Dismissal. Co-authored with Daniel Sharp. Manuscript in preparation.
OTHER ACADEMIC WRITING
with Barbara Bziuk: What Is Wrong with the World Power System and What Can Accounting Do About It? (contribution to book symposium) Journal of Law and Political Economy, 3(3) (2023) Link
PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Dienstpflicht von unten (A compulsory social service from below), www.praefaktisch.de, 2023. Link
with Savriel Dillingh: Hoe lossen we de wooncrisis op? Drie lessen uit de bedrijfsethiek (How do we solve the housing crisis? Three lessons from business ethics), Bij Nader Inzien, 2022. Link
A Match Made in Law? On Corporations and Their Uncomfortable Fit with Democracy, The American Philosophical Association, 2021. Link
Das Berliner Volksbegehren und die politische Theorie des Unternehmens (The Berlin popular referendum and the political theory of the business corporation), www.praefaktisch.de, 2021. Link. Republished by agora42 magazine: Link
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
- MANCEPT Workshop Business Corporations, Non-ideal Theory, and Social Change, 11 - 12 September 2023, Manchester, with Barbara Bziuk.
- Democracy and the Corporation, 16 - 18 March 2022, Utrecht, with Rutger Claassen.
SERVICE
Peer Review for:
- Political Theory (2023)
- Journal of Social Philosophy (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (2023, 2024)
- Critical Horizons (2024)
TEACHING
At Utrecht University
- Uncivil Resistance (Applied Ethics MA, Philosophy MA); course design and coordination. (Spring 2025)
- Bachelor thesis supervision (Spring 2025)
- Metaethics (Philosophy BA); seminar teacher, co-taught with Janis Schaab (Spring 2025)
- Introduction to Practical Ethics (Philosophy minor); seminar teacher, co-taught with Pepijn Al and Uwe Peters (Spring 2025)
- Ethics and Public Policy (PPE BA); seminar teacher; co-taught with Yara Al Salman and Lila Braunschweig (Fall 2024)
- History and Philosophy of the Welfare State (PPE BA minor); course coordinator, lecturer and seminar teacher; Interdisciplinary course co-taught with Esther Baakman (History) (Fall 2024)
- Ethics and Public Policy (Applied Ethics MA). Co-taught with Frans Brom (Fall 2024)
- Political Philosophy (PPE BA). Co-taught with Barbara Bziuk, Rutger Claassen (Spring 2023) and Dorothea Gädeke (Spring 2022)
As teaching assistant at Ruhr-University Bochum:
- 2020: Universal Basic Income seminar for EELP MA students, with Martin Sticker
- 2019: Human Enhancement seminar for EELP MA students, with Marcelo Araujo
- 2018: Legitimacy seminar for EELP MA students, with Ana Matan
- 2018: The Political Philosophy of John Rawls, MA seminar, with Corinna Mieth
- 2018, 2019, 2020: Introduction to Ethics lecture and tutorial for 1st year philosophy students, with Corinna Mieth (2018, 2020) and Klaus Steigleder (2019)
PRESENTATIONS
- A Democratic Right to Political Strikes
- 23 September 2024, Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster
- 30 August 2024, OZSW Annual Conference, Eindhoven
- Fighting Organizational Degeneration through a Right to Strike in Democratic Corporations
- 11 July 2024, Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) Annual Conference 2024, Swansea
- 5 July 2024, Workshop für politische Philosophie, Düsseldorf
- On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship
- 12 August 2024, ECPR General Conference, Dublin
- 16 Jun 2023, 13th Braga meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
- 8 Jun 2023, EURO-DEM Workshop: “Varieties of Workplace Democracy: from specific models to a political economy”
- 2 Jun 2023, OZSW Annual Conference
- 25 May 2023, Workshop für politische Philosophie, Düsseldorf
- How to think about democratizing business corporations 17 Feb 2023, Geneva Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
- Expropriation as a Measure of Corporate Reform - Learning from the Berlin Initiative
- 13 Jul 2022, Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) Annual Conference 2022
- 13 May 2022, Utrecht Philosophy Graduate Conference
- Defining the Corporate Demos for Democratic Corporations
- 27 Apr 2021, Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
- 1 Oct 2021, VIII. Tagung für praktische Philosophie, Salzburg
LANGUAGES
- German: native reading, writing and speaking
- English: fluent reading, writing and speaking
- Spanish: proficient reading, very good speaking and writing
- Dutch: good reading, writing and speaking
- French: basic reading, speaking and writing
REFERENCES
Rutger Claassen
Utrecht University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Janskerkhof 13
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands
r.j.g.claassen@uu.nl
Alex Gourevitch
Brown University
Political Science Department
36 Prospect St.
Providence, RI, 02912
alexgourevitch@gmail.com
Maurits de Jongh
Utrecht University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Janskerkhof 13
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands
m.j.dejongh@uu.nl