Prof. Dr. Dufner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Employment

Since 2022: Professor for Philosophy and Medical Ethics, University of Bielefeld, Germany

2017 - 2022: Professor for Ethics and Medical Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany

2015 - 2017: Professor for Practical Philosophy, Philosophy & Economics Program, University of Bayreuth, Germany

2010 - 2015: Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics, University of Muenster, Germany

2003 - 2009: PhD Candidate, Instructor, Teaching Assistant, and Essay Clinician in Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada

 

Education and Degrees

2017: "Habilitation". Topic: "Moral Aggregation. Fairness and Efficiency in Medical Rescue Conflicts", University of Muenster, Germany          

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Muenster. Readers: Prof. Dr. phil. Kurt Bayertz (Muenster), Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Schramme (Liverpool), Prof. Dr. med. Hartmut Schmidt (Muenster)

2010: PhD. Topic: "The Normative Implications of Personal Identity Theory", Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, Canada

Supervisor: Prof. Thoma Hurka, BA (Toronto), BPhil, DPhil (Oxford). Readers: Prof. Wayne Sumner, BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Princeton); Prof. Sergio Tenenbaum, BA (Hebrew), PhD (Pittsburgh); Prof. Dennis McKerlie, BA (Calgary), PhD (Oxford)

1996 - 2002: BA/MA in philosophy and literature, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with exchange years at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, and Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

 

Publications

A list of publications can be found here.

 

Research Groups

Professor Dufner is the head of the working group on philosophy and medical ethics. Further information about the group can be found on the website of the medical school and on the website of the philosophy department.