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1666Science, politics, and morality: scientific uncertainty and decision making (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1993.Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of political decision making under the conditions of scientific uncertainty. cases from biotechnology and the environmental sciences are discussed. The papers collected for this volume address the following theme…Read more
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8536Towards Responsible Research and Innovation in the Information and Communication Technologies and Security Technologies Fields (edited book)Publications Office of the European Union. 2011.
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11Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's Between Facts and NormsSUNY Press. 2002.Examines issues in legal and democratic theory found in the work of Jürgen Habermas.
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1047The Erosion of our Value SpheresThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 3 197-218. 2007.In the following, I will discuss the current social reaction to the ecological crisis and the ways in which society reacts to technological risks, which can be understood primarily as a reaction to scientific and moral or ethical uncertainty. In the first section, I will clarify what is meant by scientific and moral or ethical uncertainty. In the second section, I will contrast Max Weber's differentiation of science, law [Recht) and morality in the modern world with the process of de-differentia…Read more
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10Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects (edited book)Edward Elgar. 2006.'... this book represents a welcome addition to the literature on PP and is recommended for readers interested in risk assessment, decision making and the precautionary principle.' - Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Political Studies Review.
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Aachen University of TechnologyKate Hamburger Kolleg, Cultures of Research, Institute for Advance StudiesSenior Research Fellow
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Goethe University Frankfurt
PhD, 1994
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Areas of Specialization
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Other Academic Areas |
Social and Political Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Biology |