Konrad Ott

Konrad Ott ( born May 20, 1959 in Mountain Kamen ) is a German philosopher and ethicist, the research focus in the field of biotechnology and environmental ethics and teaches. He worked from 1997 to 2012 as a professor of environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald and has since worked as a professor of philosophy and ethics of the environment at the University of Kiel. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment of the German Federal Government.

Life

Konrad Ott was born in mountain Kamen in 1959 and studied from 1981 to 1986 Philosophy, History and German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he received his doctorate under Jürgen Habermas and 1990-1992 held in 1989 a teaching position. He is considered the ' third generation ' of the Frankfurt School. From 1991 to 1993 Ott worked as a post- doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of the Centre for Ethics in the Sciences at the University of Tübingen. He then took over in the years 1993/1994 as a lecturer in Tübingen representation of the Chair " Ethics in the Biological Sciences ."

1995 Ott was awarded the doctorate at the University of Leipzig, the same year he moved to the Institute of Social Ethics at the University of Zurich, where he worked until 1999 as an employee in the research project " Technology Assessment and Ethics". During this time, 1997, he received an appointment at the Ernst- Moritz- Arndt- University Greifswald, where he held the only German professor of environmental ethics to 2012. Since June 2012, he serves as a professor of philosophy and ethics of the environment at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel.

Konrad Ott is married and father of four children.

Work

The focus of research by Konrad Ott include discourse ethics, sustainable development, acceptance problems of nature conservation and its ethical and moral reasons, conservation history, ethical aspects of climate change, genetically engineered crops, and technology assessment. In addition to environmental ethics he considers for example, courses in the areas of bioethics, theory and history of the ecology and history of nature conservation.

Konrad Ott from 2000 to 2008 Member of the Advisory Council on the Environment of the German Federal Government and part since 1998 at the German Council for land conservation. In addition, he worked in the German Commission for UNESCO, and is one of the scientific advisory boards of the Ministry of Environment of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, biodiversity and genetic resources of the BMELV and the Independent Institute for the Environment operates.

Positions

Konrad Ott developed a strong ethical embossed theory of sustainability and contributed, including the monograph "Theory and Practice of strong sustainability ", to then differentiation of the theoretical concept of sustainability in weak and strong sustainability. Against the background of his strongly influenced by Habermas ' philosophy and political theory Hergehensweise are its key characteristics of the reference to existing theories of justice and attempting to identify the nature of this capital and to discuss active. The combination of sustainability and justice discourse sees Ott as a means to bring the design of nature by man in accordance with its essential preservation.

Works (selection)

  • About the German Revolution: A Contribution to the many contributions of these days. Hague and Herchenhain, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89228-596-9.
  • Knowledge of human nature as a science: On the origin and logic of history as the science of the individual. Hague and Herchenhain, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89228-670-1.
  • The interplay of architecture and theology. Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg- Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-926297-44-1.
  • Ecology and Ethics: An attempt of practical philosophy. Attempo, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-89308-162-3.
  • From Justify to action: essays on applied ethics. Attempo, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89308-227-1.
  • Ipso facto: For the ethical justification of normative Implikate scientific practice. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-58243-7.
  • Ethics in computer science. WSI, Tübingen 1999 ( co-editor )
  • Technology Assessment and Ethics: A ratio determination in theory and practice. Together with Barbara Skorupinski. ETH, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7281-2745-0.
  • Spectrum of environmental ethics. Metropolis, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89518-289-3.
  • Reasoning Goals of Climate Protection: Specification of Article 2 of the UNFCCC; Research Report 20,241,252th Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, 2004.
  • Moral justifications for the introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-88506-614-9.
  • Theory and practice of strong sustainability. Together with Ralf Döring. Metropolis, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89518-695-0.
  • Environmental Ethics for the introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88506-677-4.
  • Geo - Engineering: Necessary Plan B against climate change? Together with Patrick R. Mooney. Oekom, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-86581-226-1.
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