Eckart Voland

Eckart Voland (* 1949 in Hann. Münden ) is a German sociobiologist and philosopher or bio- philosopher .

Life

Eckart Voland studied biology and social sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen after graduating from the Grotefend-Gymnasium in his hometown . In 1978 he was charged with a dissertation on the social behavior of primates for Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1992 he completed his habilitation at the local university in anthropology . In 1993/94, Voland was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London . From 1995 until his retirement in 2015, he taught as professor for philosophy of life sciences at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Voland's research is in the fields of evolutionary anthropology , biophilosophy and historical demography . Voland's publications have been translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

Voland is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, which is critical of religion . In 1997 he became a member of the Joachim Jungius Society . Since 2010 he has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

As an author:

Representation and classification of individual behavior profiles of imprisoned monkeys (Galago demidovii Fischer, 1808) on the basis of a factor-analytically derived system of behavioral categories. Dissertation. University of Göttingen, 1978.
Historical demography and sociobiology. cumulative habilitation thesis. University of Göttingen, 1992.
Outline of sociobiology . Fischer, Stuttgart 1993. ( Sociobiology. The evolution of cooperation and competition. 4th edition. Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-34540-1 )
with Matthias Uhl : Showers get more out of life. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8274-1370-2 .
The nature of man. Basic course in sociobiology. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56334-8 .
with Renate Voland: Evolution of Conscience. Strategies between egoism and obedience. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7776-2376-4 .

As editor:

Reproduction. Nature and culture in interplay. An attempt at a dialogue between biologists and social scientists. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28583-1 .
Evolution and adaptation. Why the past explains the present. Christian Vogel on his 60th birthday. Hirzel, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7776-0514-X .
with Karl Grammer : Evolutionary Aesthetics. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-43670-7 .
with Wulf Schiefenhövel : The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-00127-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Voland, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociobiologist, professor of philosophy of life sciences
DATE OF BIRTH	1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hann. Münden