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23Was hält eine Gesellschaft zusammen?: Ethik im Zeitalter der GlobalisierungMohr Siebeck. 2007.Many social philosophers and ethicists contend that a modern society cannot remain stable merely by its citizens obeying all of its rules. Such prominent theoreticians as J. Habermas, J. Rawls, D. Gauthier or R. Rorty hold the view that the citizens of a modern society must exhibit additional anthropological qualities which are termed moral surpluses here. Christoph Lütge argues, however, that no moral surplus is immune to erosion by systematic counter-incentives and that anthropological qualiti…Read more
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23AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.This open access book tackles the pressing problem of integrating concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics into higher education curriculums aimed at future AI developers in Africa and beyond. For doing so, it analyzes the present and future states of AI ethics education in local computer science and engineering programs. The authors share relevant best practices and use cases for teaching, develop answers to ongoing organizational challenges, and reflect on the practical implicat…Read more
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22Programming Away Human Rights and Responsibilities? “The Moral Machine Experiment” and the Need for a More “Humane” AV FutureNanoEthics 14 (3): 285-299. 2020.Dilemma situations involving the choice of which human life to save in the case of unavoidable accidents are expected to arise only rarely in the context of autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, the scientific community has devoted significant attention to finding appropriate and acceptable automated decisions in the event that AVs or drivers of AVs were indeed to face such situations. Awad and colleagues, in their now famous paper “The Moral Machine Experiment”, used a “multilingual online ‘serious…Read more
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17Economics in Philosophy of Science: A Dismal Contribution?Synthese 140 (3). 2004.This paper draws a connection between recent developments in naturalized philosophy of science and the Buchanan research program in economics. Economic approaches in naturalized philosophy of science can be combined to form an economic philosophy of science. After giving an overview of some of these approaches, I lay out the fundamentals of the Buchanan research program. I argue that its main elements are a theory of interactions and a normative foundation in consensus which help to answer some …Read more
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15Competition and EthicsProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 49 41-46. 2018.“Competition” is a concept which many ethicists cast a skeptical eye on. Often, it is associated with the erosion of values and morality under competitive pressure, with “marketization” or with commercialization. I will shed a differentiated light on this concept, both from an economic, an ethical and an intercultural point of view. Competition, after all, can be instrumental for ethical goals.
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15Reflections on Floridi’s “The Green and the Blue: A New Political Ontology for a Mature Information Society”Philosophisches Jahrbuch 128 (1): 135-145. 2021.
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15Teaching Business Ethics with ExperimentsJournal of Business Ethics Education 15 203-217. 2018.Teaching experiments are valuable when it comes to sensitizing students for business ethics that addresses the behavior of agents in modern societies. Many students are coined by the often predominantly individualistic ethical reasoning that they are accustomed to from their living environments. In our classes, we confront them with the volatility of their own ethical behavior by the use of experiments that ideally work with real incentives. We believe experiments to be a powerful tool not only …Read more
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12Naturalized Philosophy of Science and Economic MethodThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 37 165-179. 1998.This paper draws a connection between recent developments in naturalized philosophy of science and in economics. Social epistemology is one part of the naturalistic enterprise that has become especially important. Some approaches in this field use methods borrowed from economics, a fact that has often been overlooked. But there are also genuinely economic approaches to the problems of science and knowledge. Some of these approaches can be seen as contributions to an "economic epistemology." Whil…Read more
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12Toward organizational integrity measurement: Developing a theoretical model of organizational integrityBusiness and Society Review 128 (3): 417-435. 2023.Organizational integrity is a key concept with and through which a company can assume its responsibility for ethical and societal issues. It is a basic premise for sustainable corporate success, as ethical risks ultimately become economic risks for a company. Recent research shows the potential of integrity‐based governance models to reduce corporate risks and to improve business performance. However, companies are not yet able to assess nor evaluate their level of organizational integrity in a …Read more
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11Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik (edited book)Nomos. 2004.'Ethik ist auf deskriptives Wissen angewiesen. Das ist nichts Neues: Bereits Aristoteles betont, die Ethik müsse berücksichtigen, dass der Mensch von Natur aus ein soziales Wesen sei. Wie viel Gewicht aber kann und sollte man dem deskriptiven Wissen in normativen Fragen zugestehen? Eine naturalistische Ethik hält es für möglich, dass deskriptives Wissen nicht nur Hilfsmittel für die Anwendung ethischer Normen sein, sondern einen großen Teil der bisher erforderlichen Normen ersetzen kann. Eine na…Read more
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11The Honorable Merchant and the Corporate Social Responsibility MovementIn Christoph Strosetzki & Christoph Lütge (eds.), The Honorable Merchant – Between Modesty and Risk-Taking: Intercultural and Literary Aspects, Springer Verlag. pp. 19-28. 2019.The Honorable Merchant as an ideal of business ethics has a long-standing tradition. However, this ideal focusses a lot on the individual person and less on situational conditions, constraints and incentives under which people act. The Order Ethics approach helps conceptualize and justify why business ethics for the globalized market economy might shift this focus and put situational conditions on top of the agenda. This holds within companies as well: Instead of insisting on the ideal of the ho…Read more
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10Reflections on Floridi’s “The Green and the Blue: A New Political Ontology for a Mature Information Society”In Thomas Buchheim, Volker Gerhardt, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Isabelle Mandrella, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer & Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.), Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 135-145. 2021.
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8Moralische Mehrwerte und soziale StabilitätArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 94 (3): 384-402. 2008.This article discusses the question whether modern societies require some kind of a social glue in order to remain stable. This social glue (termed the ‘moral surplus’) is regarded as a moral capacity or capability which goes beyond the individual quest for advantages and benefits. Four positions in contemporary social philosophy which postulate a moral surplus are discussed and criticized: J. Habermas, J. Rawls, D. Gauthier and K. Binmore. The conception of order ethics is outlined as an altern…Read more
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8Wettbewerb im unternehmerischen HandelnIn Martina Plümacher & Günter Abel (eds.), The Power of Distributed Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 61-76. 2016.
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7Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (edited book)Ashgate Pub. Company. 2008.This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on corporate citizenship. It considers relations of business and society alongside social responsibility and moves on to examine the historical and systemic foundations of business ethics, focusing on the concepts of social and ethical responsibilities. The contributors explore established theories and concepts and their impact on moral behaviour. Together,…Read more
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7The Praxis of Diversity (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This edited collection brings together experts from various disciplines to engage critically with diversity theory, diversity politics, and their practical application. Accordingly, the volume provides a provocative discursive space, where the key theoretical as well as practical problems of diversity in business, institutions and culture can speak to each other and can be assessed. The aim is to bridge the gap between two relatively distinct discourses: the discourse on practical applications o…Read more
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7Reflections on Floridi’s »The Green and the Blue: A New Political Ontology for a Mature Information Society«In Luciano Floridi & Jörg Noller (eds.), The Green and the Blue: Digital Politics in Philosophical Discussion, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 125-138. 2022.
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6Moralische Mehrwerte und soziale StabilitätArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 94 (3): 384-402. 2008.This article discusses the question whether modern societies require some kind of a social glue in order to remain stable. This social glue (termed the ‘moral surplus’) is regarded as a moral capacity or capability which goes beyond the individual quest for advantages and benefits. Four positions in contemporary social philosophy which postulate a moral surplus are discussed and criticized: J. Habermas, J. Rawls, D. Gauthier and K. Binmore. The conception of order ethics is outlined as an altern…Read more
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5The Idea of Justice in Literature (edited book)Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 2018.The theme arises from the legal-academic movement "Law and Literature". This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to the law, and second, to find out a theoretical solution of the methodological question whether and to what extent the legal text can be interpreted objectively in comparison with the question how literary works …Read more
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3Reflecting the Impact of Ethical Theory: Contractarianism, Ethics and Economics: Civilising the barbarians? On the apparent necessity of moral surplusesIn Jesús Conill Sancho, Christoph Luetge & Tatjana Schó̈nwälder-Kuntze (eds.), Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Ashgate Pub. Company. 2008.
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Ordnungsethik - naturalistisch konzipiertIn Christoph Lütge & Gerhard Vollmer (eds.), Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik, Nomos. 2004.
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Fakten statt Normen? Einleitung und ÜberblickIn Christoph Lütge & Gerhard Vollmer (eds.), Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik, Nomos. 2004.
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Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy (edited book)Ashgate. 2004.Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other. The two approaches offer very different accounts of the functioning and legitimacy of democratic institutions. Although both highlight the importance of democratic consent, their accounts of such consent could hardly be more different. Constitutional economics models individuals as s…Read more
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Kaltblütig. Philosophie von einem rationalen Standpunkt.Festschrift für Gerhard Vollmer (edited book)Hirzel. 2004.
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Wettbewerb der SolidarsystemeJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik (22): 329-348. 2014.Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is a wide consensus in society and science that a modern society cannot do without a market economy. The current political and academic debate revolves primarily around the question of what kind of social system a modern society needs. This question includes important normative as well as instrumental aspects. In this essay, we want to pursue the question of how modern societies can best achieve progress in both dimensions. The standard response — b…Read more
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Oekonomische und sozialethische Bildung als Garant der Sozialen MarktwirtschaftIn M. Spieker (ed.), Oekonomische Bildung, Zwischen Pluralismus und Lobbyismus, Wochenschau Verlag. 2015.Zunächst einmal möchten wir klären, was der Begriff ökonomischer Bildung umfasst, um in einem zweiten Schritt klären zu können, welche Teilaspekte von ökonomischer Bildung möglicherweise verbindlich gelehrt werden sollten – und welche Teilaspekte etwa auch nur Teil von Spezialausbildungen sein könnten. Wir werden dabei zu dem Schluss kommen, dass vor allem die Politische Ökonomie – also ein Fach, das einen Schwerpunkt auf ordnungsökonomische und ordnungsethische Problemstellungen legt – ein Kan…Read more
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