In my academic work, I am interested in how philosophical discourses can be applied to political, economic, and ecological questions. While I began my studies with a particular interest in philosophy of language and meta-ethics, I later focused primarily on political philosophy, non-Western philosophy, and environmental ethics. From 2020 to 2022, I have been a postdoctoral researcher in David Ludwig's GEOS team at Wageningen University which forms part of the Knowledge, Technology & Innovation Group. In this project, I have been examining the deep ontological differences between different Indigenous ontologies and the limits of ontological pluralism. In September 2022, I started a two-year research project on Rights of Nature and Latin American philosophies that is hosted by UNAM, Mexico. The project is financed by a research grant of the Dutch government (Rubicon).

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Fields of interest

Political philosophy, non-Western philosophy, and environmental ethics

Research

Methodologically, I combine traditional philosophical methods (i.e., conceptual and normative analysis) with philosophical fieldwork, and arts-based methods. 

Grants and awards

1. Rubicon Grant 2022 for a two-year research stay abroad (authored as principal investigator; awarded by Dutch Research organization).
2. Niels Stensen Fellowship 2021 for a one-year research stay abroad (authored as principal investigator; awarded by Niels Stensen Foundation).
3. Wiebke Kuklys Prize 2019 by the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) for the paper ‘When a river becomes a person’.
4. Denis Goulet Memorial Prize 2018 by the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) for the paper ‘Capability and habit’.

Curriculum Vitae

09/2022 – present 
Rubicon fellow for a two-year research stay at UNAM (MEX)
06/2021 – present 
PhD coordinator at Wageningen University & Research (NL)
02/2021 – 07/2021 
Lecturer at Utrecht University (NL)
09/2020 – present 
Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University & Research (NL)
07/2019 – 08/2019 
Research and teaching assistant at Utrecht University (NL)
04/2019 – 06/2019 
Lecturer at Utrecht University (NL)
03/2017 – 12/2017 
Research and teaching assistant at Utrecht University (NL)

Selected publications

1. Kramm, Matthias. (Forthcoming). A tale of two models of Rights of Nature. Environmental Ethics.
2. Kramm, Matthias. (Forthcoming). Authority through service: A Mesoamerican approach to political expertise. Social Theory and Practice.
3. Kramm, Matthias, Ludwig, David, Mosima, Pius M., Ngosso, Thierry, Boogaard, Birgit. (Forthcoming). Confrontation or dialogue? Productive tensions between decolonial and intercultural scholarship. Ergo.
4. Kramm, Matthias. (Early View). Four epistemic reasons to consult religious traditions. Constellations.
5. Kramm, Matthias. (2022). Ein Analyseraster für Traditionskonzeptionen. Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 76(1) (16 p.).
6. Kramm, Matthias. (2021). The role of political ontology for Indigenous self-determination. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (22 p.).
7. Kramm, Matthias. (2020). When a river becomes a person. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 21(4) (12 p.).
8. Kramm, Matthias, Robeyns, Ingrid. (2020). Limits to wealth in the history of Western philosophy. European Journal of Philosophy, 28 (4) (15 p.).
   Reprinted in Having too much: Philosophical essays on limitarianism. (2023). Edited by Ingrid Robeyns, pp. 61-90. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
9. Kramm, Matthias. (2019). Capability and habit. Journal of Global Ethics, 15 (2) (10 p.).