Main Focus
Valerij Zisman‘s research focuses on criminal law, ethics, and moral psychology. He is particularly interested in how research on our punitive attitudes can inform the legal and normative debate on theories of criminal punishment. More broadly, he is interested in using interdisciplinary methods in order to enrich our understanding of morality, the plausibility of different theories in normative ethics, and the epistemic reliability of moral judgments.
Curriculum Vitae
10/2022 – present: Postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Criminal Law
04/2022 – 09/2022: Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
04/2018 – 05/2022: Dissertation in Philosophy at Bielefeld University with the Title “Criminal Law without Punishment. How Our Society Benefits from Abolishing Punitive Sanctions”. Defended in June 2022 (Grade: Summa cum laude)
04/2019 – 03/2022: Scholarship for the duration of the dissertation at the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
04/2018 – 03/2019: Researcher at Bielefeld University
08/2016 – 05/2017: Study abroad at the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
10/2015 – 04/2018: Master of Arts in Philosophy (Bielefeld University)
10/2012 – 09/2015: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and German Studies (Bielefeld University)
