Dr. Dr. Marco Meyer
Photo: Uni Hamburg/Meyer
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter
Institute of Philosophy
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Key aspects of activity
- Organizational Ethics
- Virtue and Vice Epistemology
- Political Philosophy
- Digital Humanities
- Ethics of Finance
Career and Education
| 2021- | Junior Research Group Lead, “Freigeist” Fellow, University of Hamburg, Department of Philosophy |
| 2017–2020 | Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of York, Politics Department |
| Summer 2019 | Australian National University, Australia: Visiting Fellow |
| 2015–2017 | University of Groningen, The Netherlands Ph.D. (Economics): “Economic Consequences of Personality, Knowledge, and Intellectual Virtues” |
| 2013–2016 | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Ph.D. (Philosophy): “The Right to Credit” |
| Fall term 2015 | Harvard University, United States: Visiting Student |
| 2010–2013 | University of Oxford, United Kingdom B.Phil Philosophy (M.A.) |
| 2006–2010 | University of Bayreuth, Germany
B.A. Philosophy & Economics and B.A. in European History |
| 01–06/2009 | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: Visiting Student |
| 07–12/2008 | Grande École Audencia, Nantes, France: Visiting Student |
Research Interests
- Organizational Ethics
- Virtue and Vice Epistemology
- Political Philosophy
- „Digital Humanities“
- Ethics of Finance
Research Assistant
Benjamin Lange guest at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg
Email: benjamin.lange"AT"philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Project "Culpable Ignorance, Moral knowledge in organizations"
Culpable Ignorance Moral knowledge in organizations
Organizational misconduct often stems not from bad motives, but from ignorance. For instance, silence of research departments about side effects delays the recalling of drugs. Lack of coordination between police departments hampers finding serial killers. Such ignorance is culpable if organizations could have known better. The project investigates what organizations have a duty to know, and which qualities help them to fulfil these duties.
The research group approaches the question of organizational duties to know through the lens of vice epistemology, a branch of philosophy. An epistemic vice is a blameworthy intellectual failing that systematically gets in the way of knowledge. To answer the question of which qualities help organizations to fulfil their duties to know, the research group applies quantitative and qualitative research methods.
First, the research group analyzes a database of corporate misconduct to assess the importance of culpable ignorance.
Second, the research group identifies root causes of culpable ignorance through interviews with young professionals.
Third, the research group develops a survey instrument to identify and measure epistemic vice in organizations.
The project will help to better understand an overlooked cause of corporate misconduct, providing guidance to organizations and regulators to prevent culpable ignorance.
Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications Full List of Publications PDF
“Measuring social intellectual virtues”, In Social Virtue Epistemology, Alfano, M., Klein, C., & de Ridder, J. (Ed.). Routledge. (under contract).
“Fake news, conspiracy theorizing, and intellectual vice”, In Social Virtue Epistemology, Alfano, M., Klein, C., & de Ridder, J. (Ed.). Routledge. (under contract). (with Mark Alfano).
“Die Rolle der Gerechtigkeit in der Regulierung von Märkten.“ Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (forthcoming).
“Dealing Fairly with Trade Imbalances in Monetary Unions”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics. February 2021. (online first).
“Tax Competition and Global Interdependence”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 27 (4), 2019: 480-498 (with Mathias Risse).
“The Ethics of Consumer Credit: Balancing Wrongful Inclusion and Wrongful Exclusion”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 42 (1), 2018: 294-313.
“The Right to Credit”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 26 (3), 2018: 304-326.
”The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect”, In: Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention?, Tony Coady, Ned Dobos, Sagar Sanyal (Ed.). Oxford University Press, 2018: 100-122.
“Die Rolle des Kreditsystems in einer gerechten Gesellschaft”, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 19(1), 2018: 125-140.
“The Social Purpose of Corporations”, Journal of the British Academy, 6, supplementary issue 1, 2018: 49-73. (with Nien-Hê Hsieh, David Rodin and Jens van 't Klooster).
“A Virtue Ethical Approach to Organizational Culture in Finance”, In: Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management, Alejo José G. Sison et al. (Ed.). Springer, 2016.