philippstehr

CURRICULUM VITAE

Philipp Stehr
Utrecht, Netherlands
pstehr@posteo.de
https://philippstehr.github.io/

AREAS OF INTEREST

• democratic theory, especially of economic institutions
• business ethics
• political and social philosophy of resistance and social change
• methodological issues: ideal vs. non-ideal theory and normative vs. empirical research

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Currently: PhD Candidate, Utrecht University, 09/2020 - 10/2024
Full-time position in Rutger Claassen’s ERC project The Business Corporation as a Political Actor

Visiting Research Fellow, Brown University, 09/2022 - 12/2022
Host: Alex Gourevitch

Teaching and Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum, 04/2018 - 08/2020
Chair of Practical Philosophy, esp. Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Prof. Corinna Mieth.

EDUCATION

Currently: PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Utrecht University, 08/2024 (expected)
Prospective Thesis Title: The Democratization of Business Corporations
Supervisors: Rutger Claassen and Maurits de Jongh

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.

The Democratization of Business Corporations. Thesis Manuscript

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, Journal of Social Philosophy and Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

TEACHING

• 2022 and 2023: Political Philosophy introductory course for PPE students. Co-taught with Barbara Bziuk, Rutger Claassen (2023) and Dorothea Gädeke (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

• On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship 16 Jun 2023, 13th Braga meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
• On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship 8 Jun 2023, EURO-DEM Workshop: “Varieties of Workplace Democracy: from specific models to a political economy”
• On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship 2 Jun 2023, OZSW Annual Conference
• On a problem for workplace democracy and its solution via a workers’ dictatorship 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
• Expropriation as a Measure of Corporate Reform - Learning from the Berlin Initiative 13 May 2022, Utrecht Philosophy Graduate Conference
• Wer bildet den demos in einem demokratischen Unternehmen? 1 Oct 2021, VIII. Tagung für praktische Philosophie, Salzburg
• On Objective Function and Emancipatory Commitment. Lessons on Methodology from the early Frankfurt School 29 Jun 2021, University of Leeds Graduate Political Theory Conference
• Defining the Corporate Demos 27 Apr 2021, Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory

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