Dieter Sturma

Dieter Sturma (born March 25, 1953 in Minden ) is a German philosopher .

Sturma has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn since 2007, with a special focus on ethics in the life sciences . At the same time, he is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) at the University of Bonn , the German Reference Center for Ethics in the Biosciences (DRZE) at the University of Bonn and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences in Düsseldorf, as well as the Institute for Ethics in the Neuroscience (INM-8) at the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich .

academic career

• 1974–1980 studied philosophy , German and history in Hanover and Göttingen
• 1981–1984 Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation ( doctorate )
• 1984–1985 legal clerkship and employee at the University of Hanover
• 1986–1997 university assistant , academic adviser and private lecturer at the University of Lüneburg
• 1998–2007 Full Professor at the University of Essen
• 2007- Full Professor at the University of Bonn

Visiting professorships and lectureships

• 1985–1994 University of Hanover
• 1989 Colorado College / USA
• 1994 University of Notre Dame / USA
• 1996 and 1997 University of Kiel , Humboldt University of Berlin

Research priorities

Central topics of his research are philosophical anthropology , philosophy of mind , philosophy of person and the philosophy of freedom . Most of his questions can be assigned to the discipline of ethics , especially applied ethics . In his research on the history of philosophy, Sturma focuses in particular on humanism , the English and French philosophy of the 18th century, the classical German philosophy and the philosophy of the 20th century. With currently ten employees, his chair is the most staffed chair of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Bonn.

Book publications

• Kant on self-consciousness: On the connection between the critique of knowledge and the theory of self-consciousness . Olms 1985 ISBN 978-3487077185 .
• Philosophy of person. The self-relations of subjectivity and morality . Mentis, Paderborn 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3897856660 .
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3406419492 .
• Philosophy of Mind: Basic Knowledge Philosophy Reclam, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3150201220 .

Editorships

• (1991) Culture and Cultural Studies. Culture - media - communication. Lüneburg contributions to cultural studies. Luneburg
• (1995) with Karl Ameriks : The Modern Subject. Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy. State University of New York Press, Albany
• (2001) with Thomas Christaller et al .: Robotics. Perspectives for human action in the future society. Springer, Berlin
• (2001) Person. History of Philosophy - Theoretical Philosophy - Practical Philosophy. Mentis, Paderborn
• (2004) with Karl Ameriks: Kant's Ethics. mentis, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3897853089 .
• Philosophy and Neuroscience. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3518293706 .

Articles in edited volumes

• (2007) Education and Human Rights , in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Hrsg.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= interdisciplinary cultural studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2), Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978- 3-8329-2604-5

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1. ↑ http://www.drze.de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiter-innen/dieter-sturma
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 12, 2007 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.  
3. ↑ http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-8/
4. ↑ http://www.fz-juelich.de

Web links

• Personal homepage of Dieter Sturma
• Literature by and about Dieter Sturma in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieter Sturma: Person and human rights (PDF; 115 kB)
• Homepage of the chair of Dieter Sturma at www.uni-bonn.de