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Fakultät Humanwissenschaften und Theologie

Dr. Dick Timmer

Foto von Dick Timmer © Dick Timmer​/​TU Dortmund

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Campus Adresse
Campus Nord
EF50

Postadresse

Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
Deutschland

Raum 2.248

 

 

Sprechzeiten

By appointment.

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Vita

Dick Timmer (*1993) is an Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Beschäftigter, fixed-term) at TU Dortmund. His research is in moral and political philosophy. He focusses on distributive justice, economic ethics, climate change, responsibility, activism, state neutrality, and moral status, among other things. He is also interested in meta-oriented questions about methods and arguments in normative philosophy.

Before joining the Department of Philosophy and Political Science in Dortmund, Timmer completed a PhD at Utrecht University. He wrote his thesis, titled “Thresholds and Limits in Theories of Distributive Justice”, as a member of the ERC Fair Limits project and under the supervision of prof. dr. Ingrid Robeyns. Before that, he studied philosophy, theology, and religious studies at Utrecht University, and as a visiting student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Protestant Theological University.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Political philosophy, ethics, distributive justice, climate ethics, non-ideal theory, limitarianism.

Publikationen

  • Accepted | “Presumptive Limitarianism: A Reply to Robert Huseby.” In Having too much: Philosophical essays on limitarianism. Edited by Ingrid Robeyns. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.