Jörg Luy
Jörg Luy (born August 12, 1966 in Cologne ) is a master of philosophy and a veterinarian specializing in animal welfare. After his dissertation on the killing question in animal welfare ethics, he held a junior professorship for animal welfare and ethics at the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the Free University of Berlin from 2004 to 2010 . Before founding his research and advisory institute for applied ethics (INSTET, Berlin) in 2013, he headed the Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Behavior at the Free University of Berlin.
Life
Jörg Luy grew up in a family of doctors. From 1976 to 1981 he attended the Collegium Josephinum Bonn, then the Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Cologne until his Abitur in 1986. After two years in the army Luy began in 1988 at the University of Giessen a double study of human medicine and philosophy . After a year he switched to veterinary medicine and continued studying philosophy. State examination and license to practice medicine took place in 1995. After a further four semesters of studying philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , Luy received his doctorate in 1998 with the thesis The question of death in animal welfare ethics. Luy completed his part-time studies in philosophy in 2000 with the degree of Magister Artium. In 2004, an interdisciplinary junior professorship for animal welfare and ethics was set up at the Free University of Berlin , to which Luy - in connection with the head of the Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Behavior - was appointed. After almost ten years at the FU Berlin, Luy switched to INSTET in 2013.
Luy's works deal with the good and correct (“decent”) handling of animals. Over time, the question broadened to include good and correct behavior in general or, complementary to this, the question of which behaviors are capable of violating a sense of morality and justice. The first research project by Luys INSTET was devoted to the population's sense of morality and justice as an empirically investigable subject. The project SocialLab - farm animal husbandry in the mirror of society (completed in 2019), funded by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and carried out with partners from market and opinion research, analyzed the multifaceted social criticism of agricultural animal husbandry. The ethical aspects of the project were examined by INSTET. It turned out that the ethical concept of the Animal Welfare Act does not harmonize with the population's sense of morality and justice. In Der faire Deal , Luy describes errors in reasoning in the proportionality test related to the handling of animals . Luy assumes that with the elimination of the erroneous ethical assumption in the concept of "ethical animal protection" the legal situation would change and an improvement in the social acceptance of agricultural animal husbandry could be expected as a result.
Web links
- Homepage INSTET
- Literature by and about Jörg Luy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Luy at the Free University of Berlin
- The killing question in animal welfare ethics (digital diss.)
Individual evidence
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luy, Jörg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luy, Jörg Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German veterinarian and philosopher, holder of the first German chair for animal welfare |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |