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8533Towards 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 |
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Social and Political Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Biology |