International Center for Ethics in Science
The International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) (formerly the Interfaculty Center for Ethics in Science ) is an interdisciplinary research center for scientific ethics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , which aims to intensify the dialogue between the various scientific disciplines on ethical issues . The IZEW is home to one of the largest scientific special libraries on scientific ethics in Europe.
Research program
The IZEW operates the “ Ethics in Science” program. Ethics is understood as the task of the participating scientists themselves. They do not submit ethical questions and problems that arise in and from their scientific work to philosophical or theological ethics experts, but identify, analyze and assess them together with them. The IZEW is the only ethics center in Germany with its own work area "Ethics and Education" and with its own research focus " Security Ethics ", in which ethical questions of modern security technologies are examined.
history
The IZEW was founded in 1990, making it the oldest ethics center in Germany that deals with the whole range of application-oriented ethics . Based on the discussion group "Ethics in the natural sciences" set up in 1985 at the University of Tübingen, which was dedicated to the interdisciplinary exchange on questions of scientific ethics, the research center "Ethics in the natural sciences" was founded in 1986.
The IZEW was founded on the basis of a recommendation by the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, which in 1987 also decided to set up two initially temporary professorships, namely the professorship for ethics in the biosciences at the Faculty of Biology and the other for Ethics in Medicine at the Medical Faculty. The latter was taken over by Julian Nida-Rümelin in 1991 , and after the conversion to a permanent professorship in 1996, Eve-Marie Engels took over this professorship.
The Tübingen moral theologian Dietmar Mieth , who was spokesman for the IZEW from 1990 to 2001, made a significant contribution to the foundation . His successor was Eve-Marie Engels until 2011 . Urban Wiesing , who holds the Tübingen Chair for Ethics in Medicine, has held the spokesperson's office since 2011 .
From 1991 to 2011, the Graduate College "Ethics in Science" existed at the IZEW, which was funded by the German Research Foundation . Since 2004, a graduate college approved by the German Research Foundation has been set up at the IZEW, in which 15 doctoral students, post-docs and associated colleagues deal with questions of bioethics.
The IZEW is supported by all Tübingen faculties, each of which sends a representative to the Scientific Council.
In addition to the Scientific Council, an International Advisory Board was appointed in 2010, the members of which are five professors from European and American universities.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ index.php (application / pdf object). In: uni-tuebingen.de. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011 ; Retrieved June 30, 2011 .