Institute Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences
The Institute for Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences (Institute TTN) is an affiliated institute at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The association is responsible for promoting the dialogue between technology, theology and natural science
The main focus of the institute's work is on projects on ethical issues in the fields of biotechnology , genetic engineering , medicine , agriculture , the environment and energy technology as well as their economic application. The institute was founded in 1992 on the initiative of a group of natural scientists , philosophers , technicians from industry and theologians with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on ethical questions from natural science and technology. It is financed through membership fees from its sponsoring association, funding grants from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , sponsorship money and third-party research funding.
Focus of work
The projects worked on at the TTN include:
- Nanobiotechnologies in an interdisciplinary discourse
- Genetic Engineering: Human Interventions - An Escalation Model for Ethical Assessment
- Biotechnology in a social interpretation
- Green genetic engineering in the public understanding
- Autonomy and dementia: Understanding Alzheimer's dementia / enabling self-determination / stabilizing the environment
- Ethical evaluation model for agricultural animal husbandry
- Practice-oriented ethics in animal husbandry
- Biofuels from Energy Crops: An Alternative to Mineral Oil Fuels? - Ethical evaluation of a new technology
- Clinical ethics advice
- Ethical questions in health economics
Chair of the TTN sponsoring association since it was founded
- 1992–1998: Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
- 1998–2003: Trutz Rendtorff
- 2003–2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
- 2007- ?: Christian Albrecht