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Jenseits der Kontraktionen von Religion und Nationalismus : Zur Aktualität von Hermann Cohens Kritik am Zionismus und seiner unheiligen Allianz mit der OrthodoxieIn Eveline Goodman-Thau & George Y. Kohler (eds.), Nationalismus und Religion: Hermann Cohen zum 100. Todestag, Universitätsverlag Winter. 2019.
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2Nutzen/GlückIn Frauke Höntzsch (ed.), Mill-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 313-319. 2023.Im zweiten Kapitel von Utilitarianism beschreibt Mill seine Konzeption des Utilitarismus. Er beklagt, dass das Wort ‚Utilitarismus‘ zu vielerlei Missverständnissen geführt hat, von denen er einige ausräumen möchte. Das ist ihm schon damals nur zum Teil gelungen. Seit 1861 hat sich dieses Problem für den Utilitarismus in der Tat noch potenziert, da das ihm zugrunde liegende Wort utility (dt. ‚Nutzen‘) durch die Volkswirtschaftslehre eine völlig neue Bedeutung verliehen bekam. Darüber hinaus befür…Read more
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3Utilitarianism (1861)In Frauke Höntzsch (ed.), Mill-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 99-112. 2023.Die moralphilosophische Schrift Utilitarianism gehört mit dem inhaltlich eng verbundenen Buch On Liberty zu Mills wichtigsten Werken. In angelsächsischen Fachbereichen für Philosophie gehört sie zur Pflichtlektüre in den ersten Studienjahren, auch in Deutschland steht sie inzwischen sehr häufig im Vorlesungsverzeichnis. Der Text scheint sich besonders für die studentische Lektüre zu eignen, da er nicht nur ein angenehm kurzer und auch leicht zu lesender Klassiker einer der wichtigsten Strömungen…Read more
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3Biographie (1806–1873)In Frauke Höntzsch (ed.), Mill-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 3-12. 2023.John Stuart Mill hatte ein außergewöhnliches Leben. Einige biographische Besonderheiten sind weithin bekannt: Seine Erziehung durch den strengen VaterMill, James ist legendär, seine komplizierte Beziehung zu seiner späteren Ehefrau Harriet TaylorTaylor, Harriet schon immer Anlass lebhafter Spekulationen. Etwas überraschend mag bei der ersten Beschäftigung mit Mills Leben sein, dass er weder studiert hat noch einer wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit nachgegangen ist, zumindest nicht als Brotberuf; sein…Read more
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2Israel und die Geister von '68: eine PhänomenologieVandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2018.Träume eines Geistersehers : unhistorische Überlegungen -- Die deutsche Studentenrevolte und ihr Nachspiel der Identitäten -- Der Ausgang aus der selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit als Auszug aus der Schuld -- Kairos und Krise : Ernst Blochs Philosophie der eschatologischen Formen und die Aporie des messianischen Augenblicks.
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1Nach der Sünde – Reflexionen über ein modernes TabuIn Hans Feger & Manuela Hackel (eds.), Existenzphilosophie und Ethik, De Gruyter. pp. 67-88. 2014.
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174John Stuart Mills Qualitativer Utilitarismus und die undichten Fässer des GorgiasIn Hans G. Nutzinger & Hans Diefenbacher (eds.), John Stuart Mill Heute (Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, Band 5), Metropolis. pp. 157-172. 2018.
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143Attitudes Toward Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination in Germany A representative analysis of data from the socio-economic panel for the year 2021Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 119 335-41. 2022.Background: Adequate immunity to COVID-19 apparently cannot be attained in Germany by voluntary vaccination alone, and therefore the introduction of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination is still under consideration. We present findings on the potential acceptance of such a requirement by the German population, and we report on the reasons given for accepting or rejecting it and how these reasons vary according to population subgroup. Methods: We used representative data from the Socio-Economic Panel f…Read more
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32Who Authored On Liberty? Stylometric Evidence on Harriet Taylor Mill's ContributionUtilitas 34 (2): 120-138. 2022.It is well known that John Stuart Mill repeatedly acknowledges Harriet Taylor Mill's substantial contribution to On Liberty. After her death, however, he decides to publish the book under his name only. Are we justified in continuing this practice, initiated by JSM, of refusing unequivocal co-authorship status to HTM? Drawing on stylometric analyses, we make a preliminary case that JSM did not write On Liberty all by himself and that HTM had a hand in formulating it. Drawing on plausible standar…Read more
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1004Utility, Progress, and Technology: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (edited book)KIT Scientific Publishing. 2021.This volume collects selected papers delivered at the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in July 2018. It includes papers dealing with the past, present, and future of utilitarianism – the theory that human happiness is the fundamental moral value – as well as on its applications to animal ethics, population ethics, and the future of humanity, among other topics.
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223Attitudes on voluntary and mandatory vaccination against COVID-19: Evidence from GermanyPLoS ONE 16 (5): 1-18. 2021.Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the willingness to get vaccinated might not be sufficiently high to achieve herd immunity. A policy of mandatory vaccination could ensure high levels of vaccination coverage, but its legitimacy is doubtful. W…Read more
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7Kant on Owning and Giving Away One’s BodyIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 2157-2164. 2018.
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16BMBF-Klausurwoche „Organ Donation in Times of Donor Shortage. Interdisciplinary Discussion of Challenges and Solutions“Ethik in der Medizin 26 (1): 77-81. 2014.
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113Newcomb’s Problem and Repeated Prisoners’ DilemmasPhilosophy of Science 72 (5): 1160-1173. 2005.I present a game-theoretic way to understand the situation describing Newcomb’s Problem (NP) which helps to explain the intuition of both one-boxers and two-boxers. David Lewis has shown that the NP may be modelled as a Prisoners Dilemma game (PD) in which ‘cooperating’ corresponds to ‘taking one box’. Adopting relevant results from game theory, this means that one should take just one box if the NP is repeated an indefinite number of times, but both boxes if it is a one-shot game. Causal decisi…Read more
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210Definite Descriptions and the Gettier ExampleCPNSS Discussion Papers. 2002.This paper challenges the first Gettier counterexample to the tripartite account of knowledge. Noting that 'the man who will get the job' is a description and invoking Donnellan's distinction between their 'referential' and 'attributive' uses, I argue that Smith does not actually believe that the man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket. Smith's ignorance about who will get the job shows that the belief cannot be understood referentially, his ignorance of the coins in his pocket show…Read more
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13Binmore's EgalitarianismAnalyse & Kritik 27 (1): 89-94. 2006.In this short commentary on Ken Binmore’s Natural Justice I primarily examine the relationship between mainstream egalitarian theories and Binmore’s ap- proach. I argue that Binmore uses key concepts in non-standard ways. As a result, he doesn’t engage enough with the views he criticises
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46Classical utilitarianism from Hume to mill, Frederick Rosen. Routledge, 2003, XIII + 289 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 22 (3): 460-463. 2006.
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385Is Gettier’s First Example Flawed?In Winfried Löffler & Weingartner Paul (eds.), Knowledge and Belief, Alws. 2003.This paper challenges (in a shorter version than the also listed 2002 LSE discussion paper) the first Gettier counterexample to the tripartite account of knowledge. Noting that 'the man who will get the job' is a description and invoking Donnellan's distinction between their 'referential' and 'attributive' uses, I argue that Smith does not actually believe that the man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket. Smith's ignorance about who will get the job shows that the belief cannot be u…Read more
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1Morten EJ Nielsen, ed. Political Questions: 5 Questions on Political Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (5): 359-361. 2008.
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676Degrees of belief (edited book)Springer. 2009.Various theories try to give accounts of how measures of this confidence do or ought to behave, both as far as the internal mental consistency of the agent as ...
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329This paper challenges the first Gettier counterexample to the tripartite account of knowledge. Noting that 'the man who will get the job' is a description and invoking Donnellan's distinction between their 'referential' and 'attributive' uses, I argue that Smith does not actually believe that the man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket. Smith's ignorance about who will get the job shows that the belief cannot be understood referentially, his ignorance of the coins in his pocket show…Read more
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13Review of Classical Utilitarianism From Hume to Mill (review)Economics and Philosophy 22 (3): 460-463. 2006.
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177Don A. Habibi, John Stuart mill and the ethic of human growthJournal of Value Inquiry 37 (2): 267-269. 2003.
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500Liberaler Egalitarismus (Dworkin)In Rolf Gröschner, Kapust Antje & Lembcke Oliver W. (eds.), Wörterbuch der Würde, Utb Fink. 2013.This entry discusses (in German) the relevance of the concept of 'dignity' in the liberal egalitarianism of Ronald Dworkin
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1579Cartwright and Mill on Tendencies and CapacitiesIn Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 291--302. 2008.This paper examines the relation between Cartwright's concept of 'capacities' and Mill's concept of 'tendencies' and argues that they are not equivalent. Cartwright's concept of 'capacities' and her motivation to adopt it as a central notion in her philosophy of science are described. It is argued that the Millian concept of 'tendencies' is distinct because Mill restricts its use to a set of special cases. These are the cases in which causes combine 'mechanically'. Hence for Mill 'tendencies' do…Read more
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411Der mutmaßliche Wille im deutschen TransplantationsgesetzIn M. G. Weiss & H. Greif (eds.), Ethics-Society-Politics, Alws. 2012.This paper discusses (in German) an idea enshrined in the recent (2012) revision of the German transplantation law. The law allows family members to make claims about what the deceased would have wanted to happen to his/her organs/tissue even though he/she never has voiced any relevant opinions. I argue that this is illegitimate.
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