Research Associate Paul Adrian Meyer, M.A., M.Sc.

E-Mail: meyer@eucken.de

Research focus:
  • New Institutional Economics and Constitutional Economics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Transcendental Philosophy

Paul Meyer earned his master’s degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Freiburg. While working on his dissertation at the University of Freiburg, he is a research assistant in Professor Inga Römer’s Department of Philosophy and a research fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute.

Publications

1. Zur Möglichkeit einer phänomenologischen Ontologie der Wirtschaftswissenschaft: Eine kritische Betrachtung Josef M. Backs Verbindung von Husserls Phänomenologie mit den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

in: phainesthai. Neue Phänomenologische Blätter Bd. 1 Gemeinschaft und soziales Leben. Hgs.: MARIANNE BERLI, DIEGO D'ANGELO, VANESSA OSSINO und AMALIA TREPCA, 2025.

Qualifications

2026 M.Sc. Economics, University of Freiburg

2024 M.A. Philosophy, University of Freiburg

2023 Versatile Dual-Major Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in Economics and Philosophy/Ethics, University of Freiburg

2022 B. A. Philosophy (Minor in Cognitive Science), University of Freiburg

2022 Versatile Dual-Major Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in Computer Science and Philosophy/Ethics, University of Freiburg

Academic positions

since 05/2026 Research associate, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg

since 10/2024 Research Associate/Assistant at the Chair of Philosophy, specializing in hermeneutics and phenomenology (Prof. Inga Römer), University of Freiburg

05/2024 – 04/2026 Research assistant, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg

10/2023 – 10/2024 Research Assistant at the Chair of Public Finance and the Institute for Social Policy (Prof. Bernd Raffelhüschen), University of Freiburg

05/2020 – 09/2024 Tutor and instructor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg

Teaching

Husserls ‚Cartesianischen Meditationen‘ – Teil I (Seminar, Bachelor, WS 26)

Kants ‚Kritik der reinen Vernunft‘ – Teil II (Seminar, Bachelor, SS 26)

Kants ‚Kritik der reinen Vernunft‘ – Teil I (Seminar, Bachelor, WS 25)

Ursprünge der Geisteswissenschaft bei Heinrich Rickert (Seminar, Bachelor, SS 25)

Einführung in Kants praktische Philosophie: Die “Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten” (Seminar, Bachelor, WS 24