Friederike Schmitz

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Friederike Schmitz (born 1982 in Kiel ) is a German philosopher and journalist specializing in the ethics and politics of human-animal relationships .

Life

Friederike Schmitz grew up in Kiel. She studied in Heidelberg , Cambridge and at the Humboldt University with a Magistra Artium degree in philosophy and modern German literature . From 2008 to 2011 she was a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg, from 2012 to 2014 at the University of Tübingen . She received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 2013 with a dissertation on philosophical methodology by David Hume and Ludwig Wittgenstein . As a scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , she was a postdoc at the Political Theory and Philosophy department of the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin with the research project "Animals in Political Theory" from 2015 to 2017 .

She has been working as a freelance writer and lecturer since 2014. After her doctorate, she published an anthology with basic texts on animal ethics at Suhrkamp Verlag . In the foreword she asks the question “Why should nonhuman animals deserve less consideration than humans?”. The volume, which Jürgen Kaube found “very readable”, brings together various philosophical answers to moral questions about dealing with animals.

In 2011, she was one of the initiators of an appeal by more than 300 scientists to get out of factory farming . According to her own statements, she is involved in various groups of the animal rights and climate protection movement and is active in the animal liberation movement. In a conversation on the subject of ethics and farm animals with the philosopher and farmer Herwig Grimm in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , she said: "If you think animal ethics through to the end, I see no alternative but to eat vegan ." Schmitz calls for more social pressure for a consistent agricultural turnaround and the development of alternatives to the agricultural industry. This includes concepts such as permaculture , agroforestry , bio-vegan cultivation , community gardens and solidarity agriculture .

Fonts

  • David Hume as a therapeutic philosopher. A solution to the induction problem using the Wittgensteinian method . (Dissertation University of Heidelberg, 2013), University Library Heidelberg , 2014, DOI: 10.11588 / heidok.00016723
  • (Ed.): Animal ethics. Basic texts . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014.
  • Animal ethics short + understandable . Compassion Media, Münster 2017.
Book contributions
  • In: Lexicon of Human-Animal Relationships , ed. by Arianna Ferrari, Klaus Petrus, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2232-4
    • Agriculture , with Daniel Mettke, p. 212f.
    • Sport , p. 323f.
    • Contract theory , pp. 413f.
  • »Animal welfare demands more than our law enforces.« Dispute between Friederike Schmitz and Peter Kunzmann . In: Steve Ayan (Ed.): Rätsel Mensch. Expeditions in the border area between philosophy and brain research , Springer VS, Berlin / Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-50326-3 , pp. 319–326
  • Moral actors / moral subjects / moral objects . In: Johann S. Ach, Dagmar Borchers (Hrsg.): Handbuch Tierethik. Basics - Contexts - Perspectives , JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-02582-1 , pp. 179-184
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Goettle : With skin and hair . In: Taz, August 31, 2015
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Animal ethics. The Riddles of Veganism , FAZ, April 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Jens Bisky : More rights for animals. The new fellow citizens , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 9, 2014
  4. ^ Scientists' appeal against factory farming , Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 12, 2011
  5. ↑ The Ethics of Ham Bread . Interview: Martin Spiewak and Ulrich Schnabel, from: DIE ZEIT No. 21/2014, May 15, 2014
  6. ↑ Turnaround in agriculture. Ethical consumption is not enough . A comment by Friederike Schmitz, in: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, March 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher of animal ethics
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel