Christoph Lütge

Christoph Lütge (* 1969 in Helmstedt ) is a German economist and philosopher . His main focus is economic and corporate ethics. He is the owner of the Peter-Löscher- Endowed Chair of Business Ethics and Director of the of Facebook Inc. to support the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Lütge graduated from high school Anna-Sophianeum in Schöningen in 1989 . After studying philosophy and business informatics in Braunschweig, Göttingen and Paris, Lütge was a doctoral student at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Braunschweig from 1997 to 1999.

In 1999 he received his doctorate and initially became a research assistant, from 2004 research assistant at the philosophical faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Lütge completed his habilitation in Munich in 2005.

He taught as a deputy chair from 2007 to 2008 at the University of Witten / Herdecke and from 2008 to 2010 at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 2007 he received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG .

Since August 2010 he has held the newly created Peter Löscher Endowed Chair for Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich .

Since 2019 Lütge has been director of the new "TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence" at the Technical University of Munich. The institute is to be supported by the company Facebook over 5 years with a total of 7.5 million euros, Facebook decides on the financing every year. It was agreed between Facebook and the university that Lütge would become the director; a change by the university would require prior written approval from Facebook.

Memberships and functions

• He was a member of the Senate and the University Advisory Board of the Munich School of Politics
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility at Leeds Beckett University.
• In September 2016, Lütge was appointed to the ethics committee for automated and networked driving of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure .
• Lütge is co-editor of the Law, Ethics and Economics series .
• He has also worked as a reviewer for a number of organizations and journals.
  • Among other things, Lütge assesses for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ,
  • the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research,
  • the Israel Science Foundation,
  • the Swiss National Science Foundation , the German Research Foundation ,
  • the German National Academic Foundation , d
  • en Science Council ,
  • the German Federal Environment Foundation ,
  • the Society for Business Ethics,
  • the German Academic Exchange Service and for
  • numerous journals.

Research content

Lütge's main areas of work are business ethics and general ethics , especially the approach of regulatory ethics and normative aspects of modern societies. He advocates implementing ethics in modern societies not through moral appeals, but through rules. This includes both formal and informal rules. Lütge also set up the "EEL" (Experimental Ethics Lab) laboratory at the Technical University of Munich, in which ethical research is supported with experimental methods.

Publications

Ethics of Competition, 2014

Lütge advocates the thesis that competition should be used more than before as an ethical problem-solving mechanism in many areas of society. He leads this thesis using examples from the fields of ecology, health, politics, education and the like. a. out.

Lütge is of the opinion that competition is a much more general concept than capitalism and economy, as there are different concepts and types of competition. Critics of capitalism therefore do not necessarily have to be anti-competitive.

Statements on current issues

Lütge speaks regularly in the daily press, radio and television on current topics. He criticized tax loopholes for companies, advocated an expansion of the subject of economics at high schools, demanded clear guidelines in companies for data protection and spoke about Russian-German relations.

criticism

As a result of the agreements, other researchers criticized a possible lack of independence of the institute from Facebook. Lütge, on the other hand, advocates this cooperation with Facebook and replied to the criticism that he was free to work at the institute.

Criticism was expressed by Christoph Kreiß , who is generally very critical of third-party research.

"The whole application process was dropped at the TU, the 6.5 million euros were awarded directly to an existing person. (...) Such a selection with a handshake contradicts the law.

Fonts

• Ethics in AI and Robotics. Hanser, Munich 2019 (with Christoph Bartneck, Alan Wagner, Sean Welsh), ISBN 978-3-446-46227-4 .
• The Ethics of Competition: How a Competitive Society is Good for All . Cheltenham: Elgar 2019, ISBN 978-1-78897-298-7 .
• Business ethics. Vahlen, Munich 2018 (with Matthias Uhl), ISBN 978-3-8006-5244-0 .
• Order Ethics or Moral Surplus: What Holds a Society Together? . Lanham, Md .: Lexington 2015, ISBN 978-0-7391-9867-4 .
• Ethics of Competition: About Competition and Morality . Munich: Beck 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66964-4 .
• Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014 (ed., With Hannes Rusch and Matthias Uhl), ISBN 978-1-137-40979-9 .
• Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics . Heidelberg / New York: Springer 2013 (Ed.), ISBN 978-94-007-1495-3 .
• Business ethics without illusions: reflections on order theory . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-151782-2 .
• Decision and judgment . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2009 (with Helmut Jungermann), ISBN 978-3-525-40419-5 .
• Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics . Aldershot / London: Ashgate 2008 (ed. With Jesus Conill and Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze), ISBN 978-0-7546-7383-5 .
• What holds a society together? Ethics in the age of globalization . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149408-6 .
• Introduction to business ethics . 3rd, revised. Ed., Münster: LIT 2013 (with Karl Homann ), ISBN 978-3-8258-7758-3 .
• Economic philosophy of science . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2001, ISBN 978-3-8260-2017-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Lütge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Lütges homepage
• Experimental Ethics Lab at TUM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valentin Dornis: Facebook finances the Ethics Institute at the Technical University of Munich , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 20, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019.
2. ↑ Christian Kreiß : "An unlimited research gift" from Facebook to the Technical University of Munich , Telepolis , December 16, 2019
3. ^ TU Munich and Facebook: Doubts about independence. In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved January 11, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Munich School of Politics: new Senate and University Advisory Board , accessed on March 20, 2015.
5. ^ University of Politics: Organs. Retrieved May 29, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Peter Löscher Endowed Chair for Business Ethics - Prof. Lütge: Christoph Lütge. Retrieved May 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Advisory Board ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 20, 2015. 
8. ↑ Center Team. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (UK English). 
9. ↑ Members of the Ethics Committee , accessed on April 5, 2017.
10. ↑ Peter Löscher Endowed Chair for Business Ethics and Global Governance , accessed on March 20, 2015.
11. ↑ Christoph Lütge: Ethics of competition: About competition and morality . CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66965-1 ( google.de [accessed June 1, 2020]).
12. ↑ Broadcast on WDR on the "Ethics of Competition" ( memento of the original from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Interview with Christoph Lütge - Is competition unethical? Accessed June 1, 2020 (German). 
14. ^ "Ethics wins" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 8, 2014, p. 2.
15. ↑ "The subject of business urgently needs to be expanded at German schools" , Huffington Post, January 23, 2015
16. ↑ "Germany Said to Review 'No-Spy' Buying Rules Amid US Row" , Bloomberg, July 11, 2014.
17. ↑ On Trade and Change, Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung, April 2014.
18. ↑ Facebook and the TU Munich: "We are independent". In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved January 11, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Chris Köver: Facebook and the Technical University of Munich - a gift in installments. In: netzpolitik.org. December 18, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Valentin Dornis: Artificial Intelligence: Facebook finances research. Accessed June 1, 2020 . 
21. ^ Sabine Buchwald: Technical University of Munich: When Facebook invests in the university. Accessed June 1, 2020 .