Carl Friedrich Gethmann (philosopher)

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Carl Friedrich Gethmann (born January 22, 1944 in Landsberg an der Warthe , today Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a German philosopher . Gethmann taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen . His focus is on philosophy of language , theory of reasoning , logic , phenomenology and applied philosophy (medical ethics, environmental ethics, technology assessment). Since March 2013, Gethmann has been a professor in the research group “Shaping the future humanely” at the University of Siegen . He has also been a member of the German Ethics Council since 2013 .

Life

After studying philosophy at the Universities of Bonn , Innsbruck and Bochum , he obtained his licentiate at the University of Innsbruck in 1967 . In 1971 he was at the Ruhr University Bochum with the dissertation Understanding and Interpretation. Research on the method problem in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger is doing his doctorate. In 1978 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on protology. Investigations into the formal pragmatics of justification discourses . In 1979 he became a scientific adviser and professor (H3) at the University of Essen (transferred to a C3 professorship in 1980 ). In 1991 he was appointed to a C4 professorship at the University of Essen .

He received further appointments to chairs (each C4) at the universities of Stuttgart (in connection with a seat on the board of the Academy for Technology Assessment Baden-Württemberg, 1990), Oldenburg (1991), Konstanz (1993) and Bonn (1995), which he however refused.

From 1996 to 2012 Gethmann was also director of the European Academy for Research into the Consequences of Scientific and Technical Developments in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler gGmbH . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea (London) since 1991, a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1998 and a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) since 2002 . From 2006 to 2008 Gethmann was President of the German Society for Philosophy . From September 15th to 19th, 2008, he carried out the Philosophy Congress Lifeworld and Science in Essen; The central themes of the 350 colloquium and section lectures were dealing with nature, technology , work and medical ethics. From 2007 to 2015 he was also a member of the University Council of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Since 2008 he has also been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech . In May 2016, Gethmann was appointed to the Ethics Council of the Max Planck Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Law and Ethics in Preimplantation Diagnostics. Fink, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5088-3 .
  • as editor with Jürgen Mittelstrass : long-term responsibility. Ethics, technology, ecology. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21632-1 .
  • Can politics be sensible? In: Helmut Schmidt , Peter Janich , Carl Friedrich Gethmann: The responsibility of the politician. Fink, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4592-6 , pp. 27-43.
  • From awareness to action. The phenomenological project and the turn to language. Fink, Paderborn et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4327-4 .
  • as editor with Stephan Lingner: Integrative modeling for global change (= scientific ethics and technology assessment. Vol. 17). (Symposium on January 25, 2001 in Bad Honnef). Springer, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-540-43253-1 .
  • To be there. Recognize and act. Heidegger in the phenomenological context (= philosophy and science. Vol. 3). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1993, ISBN 3-11-013848-4 .
  • as editor with Peter L. Austria : Person and meaningful experience. Philosophical foundations and interdisciplinary perspectives. Festschrift for Georg Scherer on the occasion of his 65th birthday Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-12086-8 .
  • with Michael Kloepfer : acting under risk in the environmental state Springer, Berlin et al. 1993, ISBN 3-540-56363-6 .
  • as editor: Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft. Studies on the relationship between phenomenology and philosophy of science (= modern times and the present. Philosophical studies. Vol. 1). Bouvier, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-416-01995-4 .
  • as editor: Logic and Pragmatics. On the justification problem of logical language rules (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. 399). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-27999-7 .
  • as editor: Theory of Scientific Argumentation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-06033-3 .
  • Protologics. Investigations on the formal pragmatics of discourses on justification Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-06415-0 (at the same time: Konstanz, Universität, habilitation paper, 1978/1979).
  • Understanding and interpretation. The method problem in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (= treatises on philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. Vol. 81). Bouvier, Bonn 1974, ISBN 3-416-00879-0 (also: Bochum, University, dissertation, 1971).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Carl Friedrich Gethmann (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Professor Carl Friedrich Gethmann becomes honorary professor at the University of Cologne , press release in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft dated December 7, 2009, accessed on December 8, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gethmann, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg (Warta)