Carl David Mildenberger




Current positions
9/2020-today: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (SNSF Ambizione Fellow)


Past positions
3/2020-8/2020: Visiting Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
9/2016-2/2020: International Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
9/2014-3/2019: Lecturer in economics, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany
10/2012-9/2017: Lecturer in philosophy and economics, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany


Research interests
Areas of specialization: political philosophy, applied ethics (notably normative philosophy of economics and business ethics), political economy

Areas of competence: philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of action, normative philosophy of fiction, normative philosophy of language, economic theory of conflict, New Institutional Economics


Education
8/2023: Venia legendi in philosophy (with an emphasis on economic philosophy)
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Habilitation: “Colorful markets: On the morals of non-ideal type markets”.

2013-2016: PhD in philosophy
University of St Andrews and University of Stirling (SASP), Scotland. Thesis: “Commutative Justice”. Supervisors: Rowan Cruft, James Harris, Elizabeth Ashford. Committee: Ben Sachs, Alexander Voorhoeve.

2012-2013: MLitt in philosophy
University of St Andrews and University of Stirling (SASP), Scotland. Dissertation: “A reason to be rational”.

2010-2012: PhD in economics
University of Witten, Germany. Thesis: “Committing to evil - Evil actions and evil social institutions in virtual worlds from an economic perspective”. Supervisor: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos. Committee: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, Jens Harbecke.

2009-2010: MSc in business and economics
FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. Dissertation: “From anarchy to state”.

2006-2008: BA in philosophy
Institut Catholique de Paris, France. Dissertation: “Aristote et la scientificité de l’éthique économique”.

2003-2006: BA in business administration
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Dissertation: “Der Ethics Officer in amerikanischen Unternehmen - Vorbild für Europa?”.


Publications
Monographs

  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2020). Commutative Justice. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2013). Economics and Social Conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2023). A Liberal Theory of Commodification. Kriterion. https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2023-0003.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2022). Testimonial Injustice and Prediction Markets. Journal of Social Epistemology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2036261.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2022). What (if anything) is wrong with high-frequency trading? Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05145-7.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2021). Money, its Functions, and the moral Limits of their Re-design. Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.2009025.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2020). Agent-democratic markets. Kriterion. 34(2), 1-32.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2019). Employing robots. Disputatio. 11(53), 89-110.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2019). Investing and intentions in financial markets. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy. 15(1), 71-94.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2019). Corporate Responsibilization. Journal of Applied Philosophy. 36(1), 93-107. DOI 10.1111/japp.12290.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. & A. Pietri (2018). How does size matter for military success? Evidence from virtual worlds. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 154, 137-155. DOI 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.08.012.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2018). A Liberal Theory of Externalities? Philosophical Studies. 175(9), 2105-2123. DOI 10.1007/s11098-017-0950-1.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2018). A reason to be rational. Inquiry. 62(9-10), 1008-1032. DOI 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1470570.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2018). Spontaneous Disorder. Journal of Institutional Economics. 14(5), 787-809. DOI 10.1017/S1744137417000492.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2017). Virtual Killing. Philosophical Studies. 174(1), 185-203. DOI 10.1007/s11098-016-0676-5.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2017). Economic Evil and the Other. Revue de philosophie économique. 18, 141-160. DOI 10.3917/rpec.181.0141.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2017). Expressives, Majoratives, and Ineffability. Kriterion. 31(2), 1-16.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2015). Virtual World Order – The Economics and Organization of Virtual Pirates. Public Choice, 164, 401-421. DOI 10.1007/s11127-015-0284-5.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2014). Das Böse aus Ökonomischer Sicht. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 15(3), 435-444.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2013). The Constitutional Political Economy of Virtual Worlds. Constitutional Political Economy, 24(3), 239–264. DOI 10.1007/s10602-013-9140-0.
Book chapters
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2020). “Libertarianism”. In: Handbuch Liberalismus. Festl, M.G. (ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2020). “F.A. Hayek”. In: Handbuch Liberalismus. Festl, M.G. (ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2020). “Währung, Kultur, Markt – Bedingungen und normativer Status von Nicht-Bargeld-Märkten.” In: Wirtschaft ist Kultur. Wirtschaftsphilosophische und -ethische Perspektiven. Beschorner, T. and D. Sindermann (eds.). Marburg: Metropolis.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2016). “Games and Evil.” In: Philosophical Perspectives on Play. Ryall, E., Russell, W., & M. MacLean (eds). London: Routledge.

Talks
Invited
  • "Public-private partnerships from an ethical perspective". (2021) Annual Congress of Swiss Hospital Directors Association. Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • "Never Events aus ethischer Sicht". (2021). International Patient Safety Congress. Zurich, Switzerland.
  • “Behavioral Risk Management”. (2018). Conference “MEDICA”. Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • “CIRS im Spannungsfeld von Recht und Ethik”. CIRRNET Annual Meeting. Bern, Switzerland.
  • “Improving money”. (2017). Colloquium for Political Philosophy of the University of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • “Comparing Contest Success Functions in Virtual Worlds”. (2015). Workshop in Economics and Conflict. Paris, France.
  • “A social reason to be rational”. (2014). Postgraduate Session of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association. Cambridge, UK.
  • “Against systems”. (2009). Swiss Society for Quality Management in Health Care. Baden, Switzerland.
Refereed
  • "Intrinsically just procedures?". (2022). Joint Session of the Aristotelean Society and the Mind Association. St Andrews, UK.
  • “The buyer, the seller, and the third”. (2020). Forum Wirtschaftsphilosophie. Frankfurt, Germany.
  • “Automated markets”. (2020). Workshop Robot Ethics. St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • “Unternehmen und dysfunktionale Normen”. (2019). Annual meeting of the Arbeitsgruppe für Wirtschaftsphilosophie und Ethik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie. Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • “Against monetary utopias”. (2019). Conference “Money: What is it? How should it function?”. Groningen, Netherlands.
  • “Economic democracy and the agents of justice”. (2019). MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory. Manchester, UK.
  • “Lessons from effective altruism for ethical investment”. (2019). Forum Wirtschaftsphilosophie. Munich, Germany.
  • “Automation, autonomy, alienation, and alterity”. (2019). Colloquium for practical philosophy of the University of Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland.
  • “Democratic markets”. (2018). Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. Oxford, UK.
  • “Automation, alienation, and the future of work”. (2018). MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory. Manchester, UK.
  • “Two ways to democratize the market”. (2018). Colloquium for political philosophy of the University of Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland.
  • “Better money”. (2018). Forum Wirtschaftsphilosohpie. Münster, Germany.
  • “Morals and non-ideal markets”. (2017). Forum Wirtschaftsphilosophie. Berlin, Germany.
  • “Good grey markets”. (2017). European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 9). Munich, Germany.
  • “Currency, culture, markets - preconditions and moral status of non-cash markets”. (2017). Annual meeting of the Arbeitsgruppe für Wirtschaftsphilosophie und Ethik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie. St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • “Comparing Contest Success Functions in Virtual Worlds”. (2016). European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting. Freiburg, Germany.
  • “Comparing Contest Success Functions in Virtual Worlds”. (2015). Association for Public Economic Theory Annual Meeting. Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • “The ethics of externalities.” (2015). Workshop in Economic Justice and Political Action. Barcelona, Spain.
  • “A liberal theory of externalities”. (2015). Tri-Annual Meeting of the German Association for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.9). Osnabrück, Germany.
  • “A reason to be rational”. (2014). Conference “Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie”. Münster, Germany.
  • “Evil economic agents and the Other”. (2014). 2nd International Conference Economic Philosophy. Strasbourg, France.
  • “A reason to be rational”. (2013). World Congress of Philosophy. Athens, Greece.
  • “Virtual killing”. (2013). Conference “Philosophy at play”. Gloucester, UK.
  • “Evil in virtual worlds”. (2013). 9th International Conference Philosophy of Computer Games. Bergen, Norway.
  • “Virtual world order”. (2013). International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) Annual Conference. Florence, Italy.
  • “Evil actions and evil social institutions in virtual worlds.” (2013). International Workshop in Political Economy. Silvaplana, Switzerland.
  • “Evil in virtual worlds”. (2012). International Association for Computing and Philosophy World Congress. Birmingham, UK.
  • “Virtual world order”. (2012). European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE). Corsica, France.


Teaching
University of Zurich
  • Teaching in the ASAE module on "Economic ethics"
University of St. Gallen
  • Graduate course "Equality in philosophy and economics" (co-teaching with Isabel Martinez)
  • Undergraduate course "Markets and Morals"
  • Undergraduate course "Bioethics: Questions of Life and Death"
  • Undergraduate course "Society, Markets, Money"
  • Undergraduate course "Philosophy of economics" (co-teaching with Chris Paret)
  • Undergraduate course "Existentialism"
University of Witten/Herdecke
  • Graduate course “Game Theory & Social Structure”
  • Graduate course “Social Epistemology and Collective Action”
  • Graduate course “Philosophy and Society: The Question of Evil”
  • Graduate course “Philosophy of the Social Sciences”
  • Undergraduate course “New Institutional Economics”
University of Lucerne
  • Undergraduate course “The Moral Limits of Markets"
Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen
  • Undergraduate course “Microeconomics”
  • Undergraduate course “Advanced Microeconomics”
  • Undergraduate course "Markets and Society"
University of St Andrews
  • Tutor for undergraduate course “Ethical controversies”
  • Tutor for undergraduate course “Microeconomics”

Awards, prizes, grants, scholarships
Research
  • 4-year Ambizione Research Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • 3-year International Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPF), Research Commission of the University of St. Gallen
  • 600th Year Scholar; 3-year PhD scholarship, University of St Andrews
  • 1-year doctoral scholarship, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • Shortlisted for the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Best Dissertation Award 2012
Teaching
  • Zeppelin University Best Teaching Award 2017, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen

Public outreach / knowledge valorization
Short pieces in non-specialist journals/papers/blogs and public presentations
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2021). "Contra: Ist Enteignung ethisch vertretbar?", weiter denken. Journal für Philosophie. 2/21
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2019). "(Gesundheits-)Markt, Moral und Politik", Competence 9/19.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2018). "Der Roboter als Anderer", Philosophie.ch [Link]
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2018), "Behavioral Risk Management", Competence 4/18.
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2017), "Heimat: Die Erwählung durch Orte", Philosophie.ch, https://www.philosophie.ch/philosophie/highlights/nachdenken-ueber-heimat/heimat-die-erwaehlung-durch-orte
  • Youtube: presentation at the Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, Bergen (Norway), 2013
  • DIE ZEIT (German weekly): mentioning of my research in an article (2011)
  • Mildenberger, C.D. (2008), “Wie Reflexion uns besser macht”, Index 1-2, 104-105.
Non-academic jobs
  • Mildenberger Philosophie + Wirtschaft (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany): owner and found of consultancy for philosophical HR training and development
  • Scholz & Friends Reputation, Berlin (Germany): worked as consultant for corporate responsibility
  • PwC, Frankfurt (Germany): worked in Business conduct office

Languages
German: mother tongue
English and French: fluent
Russian and Spanish: basic knowledge
Latin


References
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, University of Athens
Elizabeth Ashford, University of St Andrews
Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling
Dieter Thomä, University of St. Gallen
Ben Sachs, University of St Andrews
Marcia Baron, Indiana University
Alex Voorhoeve, London School of Economics