Research Interests
Moral Philosophy & Ethics (Immanuel Kant, Moral Phenomenology, Post-Wittgensteinian Ethics), Dialogical Philosophy (Buber, Lévinas), Social & Political Philosophy (Hannah Arendt, Frankfurt School), Philosophy of Love, Aesthetics
Strammer’s research revolves around interpersonal relationality and its ethical and existential dimensions. Of special relevance for his work is the notion of the second-personal, or I-You, relation, both in classical dialogical philosophy and in the contemporary discussion. Currently, he examines the place and import of this approach in the political and social domain.
Strammer has recently defended his doctoral dissertation, Togetherness as a Moral Notion, at the Centre for Ethics in Human Value. He currently works as an external teacher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice.
Education and Degrees
13. 9. 2023 Successful defense of the dissertation
2018 – 2023 Doctoral Student, Centre for Ethics in Human Value, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice (supervisor: Dr Hugo Strandberg)
2014 – 2017 Student (English & Philosophy/Ethics), University of Stuttgart (degree ‘Erstes Staatsexamen’)
2010 – 2013 Student (English & Philosophy/Psychology), University of Vienna
Academic Positions
2024 – External teacher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice
2018 – 2021 Research assistant, Centre for Ethics in Human Value, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice
Recent Publications
2023 ‘Being Claimed in Immediate Response to an Other: Against a Foundational and Towards a Relational Understanding of Moral Status’, De Ethica Vol. 7, No. 4 (Special Issue ‘The Foundations of Equal Moral Standing’).
Grants & Scholarships
09/2022 – 02/2023 Scholarship for a research stay at the research project The Aesthetics and Ethics of Attention, University of Fribourg (supervisor Prof Susanne Schmetkamp).
04/2022 – 10/2022 Internal Grant of the Department of Philosophy and Religious & 04/2021 – 12/2021 Studies, University of Pardubice.
01/2022 – 02/2022 Scholarship of the AKTION programme for a study stay at the University of Vienna (supervisor Prof Anja Weiberg).
Referreed Conference Papers
2023 “Goodness and Necessity in the parable of the Good Samaritan” (co-presented with Salla Aldrin Salskov) at the Workshop in Honour of Prof. Lars Hertzberg’s 80th Birthday, Åbo Akademi University (May 15th).
2022 “Socialisation, Reason, and Moral Responsiveness” at the Department of Philosopy, University of Fribourg (Nov. 16th).
2022 “Love’s Goodness” at the research seminar of the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University (Oct 10th).
2022 “The Limitations of Speaking about ‘What Really Matters’ in Terms of Value” at the postgraduate conference What Really Matters? Reflections on Human Values, Centre for Ethics in Human Value, University of Pardubice (Aug. 24th–26th).
2022 “Reflections on the Morality, Praxis, Relationality, and Meaningfulness” at the research seminar of the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University (May 2nd).
2022 “Being Claimed in Immediate Response to an Other” at the NWS Conference Contextual Ethics II: Methods and Approaches, at Åbo Akademie University (Jan. 28th – 29th).
2022 “Love (and Empathy) in the Private and in the Public Realm: A Dialogistic Outlook” at the conference Sympatheia / Einfühlung / Empathy: Understanding and Feeling Otherness, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Jan. 17th–19th).
2021 “Relating to an Other and Relating to Others: A Buberian Outlook on Plurality and Togetherness beyond the Immediate Encounter” at the postgraduate conference Agapeistic Ethics: Exploring the Second Person Perspective, Aarhus University (May 27th–28th, online).
Research & Study Stays
09/2022 – 02/2023 Scholarship Stay at the Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourg.
04/2022 – 05/2022 Study Stay at the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
01/2022 – 02/2022 Scholarship Stay at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna via the AKTION-Programme (supervisor: Prof. Anja Weiberg)
09/2021 Study Stay at the University of Newcastle (collaboration with Andrew Harvey, chair of the Literature & Philosophy Society Newcastle)
03/2021 – 04/2021 & Study Stays at the University of Stuttgart
Workshops and conferences organized
24. – 26. 8. 2022 What Really Matters? Reflections on Human Values, Centre for Ethics in Human Value, University of Pardubice (postgraduate conference).
28. & 29. 1. 2022 Contextual Ethics II: Methods and Approaches (conference), Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University
13. – 16. 4. 2021 Looking Forward in Hope and in Despair: Critical Perspective on Utopia and Dystopia in Philosophy and Literature, Centre for Ethics in Human Value, University of Pardubice (postgraduate conference).
Other academic activities
Podcast interview (co-hosted with Matty Syiem) of Prof Andreas Hess and Prof Samantha Ashenden on Judith Shklar’s ‘Liberlaism of fear’:
https://centreforethics.upce.cz/cs/novy-podcast-sam-ashenden-andreas-hess
Relevant non-academic work
04/2023 – ongoing Teacher (English & German) at ScioŠkola Praha 4