Beate Rössler

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Beate Rössler (born 1958 in Heidelberg ) is a German university professor and philosopher .

academic career

Rössler studied philosophy , Protestant theology and German in Tübingen, Göttingen, London, Oxford and Berlin. She obtained her doctorate in 1988 from the Free University in Berlin . She completed her habilitation on the value of privacy in 2001 at the University of Bremen . From 2003 to 2010 she was Socrates Professor of Fundamentals of Humanism at the University of Leiden . Since 2009 Rössler has held the Chair of Ethics and the History of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Amsterdam . She is a member of the steering committee of the Amsterdam Platform for Data Protection Research (APPR) and she is a member of many advisory boards and commissions.

Worth of autonomy

Rössler has long been concerned with the subject of autonomy and, among other things, deals with the theories of freedom and autonomy since Immanuel Kant in her university courses . Her work Autonomie: An Attempt on Successful Life , published in 2007, generated a lot of media interest. She explains this on the one hand with the fact that many people consider a self-determined life to be worth striving for. On the other hand, in most of the interviews she was asked about the text passage in which she explains that she believes wearing a burqa is possible as a self-determined decision. She also advocates not seeing anything negative in taking on and representing contradicting roles or opinions in life. Because even disunity can mean autonomy.

Publications (selection)

  • Beate Rössler: New Ways of Thinking about Privacy. In: A. Philips, B. Honig (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford UP, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-954843-9 .
  • Beate Rössler: Autonomy. In: R. Stoecker, C. Neuhäuser, ML. Raters (ed.): Handbook of Applied Ethics. Metzler, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02303-2 .
  • Beate Rössler: Should personal data be a tradable good? On the moral limits of markets in privacy. In: B. Roessler, D. Mokrosinska (Eds.): Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-05237-6 .
  • Beate Rössler: Autonomy: An attempt on the successful life . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-29874-9 .
  • Beate Rössler: How we govern ourselves: Social dimensions of the private in the post-Snowden era. In: G. Böhme, U. Gahlings (Ed.): Culture of privacy in the network society. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1265-2 .
  • Daniel Susser, Helen Nissenbaum, Beate Rössler: Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World. In: Georgetown Law Technology Review. Volume 4, No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-45.

Web links

Website of the University of Amsterdam

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Beate Rössler, Dr. phil. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Universiteit van Amsterdam: mw. Prof. dr. B. (Beate) Roessler - Universiteit van Amsterdam. February 1, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 (Dutch).
  3. ^ University of Amsterdam: Algemene informatie - APPR - Universiteit van Amsterdam. March 8, 2018, accessed April 1, 2020 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Beate Rössler - IfS - Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ Ekkehard Martens, Peter Moser: Information Philosophy - Autonomy - Questions to Beate Rössler. Information Philosophy, 2017, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Eva Thöne: Interview with the philosopher Beate Rössler: What is self-determined life? In: Spiegel online culture. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rössler, Beate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roessler, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg