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Dr. Paul Rehren

Postdoc

Main Focus

  • Moral (incl. punitive) judgment
  • Moral progress
  • Theories of criminal punishment
  • Role of empirical data in philosophical research
  • Digital humanities

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2025: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Criminal Law

2023: Visiting PhD student in philosophy, University of Zurich

2021–2025: PhD in philosophy, Utrecht University (supervisors: Hanno Sauer, Daniel Cohnitz)

2019–2020: MA in liberal studies, Duke University (supervisor: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

2014–2018: BSc in physics, Bielefeld University

2014–2018: BA in philosophy and mathematics, Bielefeld University


Project

Head of project: Paul Rehren
This project investigates the conditions under which empirical research from psychology and related disciplines can inform normative argument. Drawing in part on detailed case studies from punishment theory, Rehren identifies re­cur­ring inferential challenges in the interpretation of empirical data…

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