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    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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    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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    AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond (edited book)
    with Caitlin C. Corrigan, Simon Atuah Asakipaam, and Jerry John Kponyo
    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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    Competition and Ethics
    Proceedings 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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    Naturalized Philosophy of Science and Economic Method
    The 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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    Toward organizational integrity measurement: Developing a theoretical model of organizational integrity
    with Madeleine J. Fuerst, Raphael Max, and Alexander Kriebitz
    Business 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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    Teaching Business Ethics with Experiments
    with Matthias Uhl
    Journal 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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    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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    Reflections on Floridi’s “The Green and the Blue: A New Political Ontology for a Mature Information Society”
    with Alexander Kriebitz and Raphael Max
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 128 (1): 135-145. 2021.
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    The Honorable Merchant – Between Modesty and Risk-Taking: Intercultural and Literary Aspects (edited book)
    with Christoph Strosetzki
    Springer Verlag. 2019.
    This volume explores the concept of the honest merchant, taking a broad perspective and covering a wide range of aspects. It looks at the different types of “honest merchant” conceptions originating from different cultures and literary traditions. The book covers Japanese, Islamic, Scandinavian, Russian, German, Spanish, as well as other aspects, and studies different disciplinary backgrounds of the honest merchant, such as philosophical, economic, neuroethical, sociological and literary ones. T…Read more
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    Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik (edited book)
    with Christoph Lütge and Gerhard Vollmer
    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
  •  5
    Wettbewerb im unternehmerischen Handeln
    In Martina Plümacher & Günter Abel (eds.), The Power of Distributed Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 61-76. 2016.
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    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
  •  4
    Moralische Mehrwerte und soziale Stabilität
    Archiv 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
  •  4
    The Praxis of Diversity (edited book)
    with Christiane Lütge and Markus Faltermeier
    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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    Reflections on Floridi’s “The Green and the Blue: A New Political Ontology for a Mature Information Society”
    with Alexander Kriebitz and Raphael Max
    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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    The Idea of Justice in Literature (edited book)
    with Hiroshi Kabashima, Shing-I. Liu, and Aurelio de Prada García
    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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    Countering the claims that competition contradicts and undermines ethical thought processes and actions, Christoph Lütge successfully argues that competition and ethics do not necessarily have to oppose one another. He highlights how intensified competition can in fact work in favour of ethical goals, and that many criticisms of competition stem from an out-dated understanding of how modern societies and economies function. Illustrating this view with examples from ecology, healthcare and educat…Read more
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    Moralische Mehrwerte und soziale Stabilität
    Archiv 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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    English summary: The scholarly and the public discussions about the relationship between business and ethics are dominated by numerous illusions, some of which are that ethics can be seen as restraint, that morality can survive against incentives on a sustained basis, competition must be subdued, a society needs common values, our social systems can continue to exist as they have up to now, and several others as well. Christoph Lutge debunks these illusions and shows possible alternatives for re…Read more
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    Forum
    with Zucheng Zhou
    Journal of Business Ethics Education 3 75-81. 2006.
  • Naturgesetze in der Ökonomik?
    Philosophia Naturalis 37 (2): 385-393. 2000.
  • Begriffskultur als Nächstenliebe
    Ethik Und Sozialwissenschaften 7 42-44. 1996.
  • 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
  • Wettbewerb der Solidarsysteme
    Jahrbuch 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