Kurt Bayertz

Kurt Bayertz (* 1948 in Düsseldorf ) is a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

Bayertz studied philosophy , German studies and social sciences at the universities of Frankfurt and Düsseldorf from 1969 and received his Magister philosophiae (Mag. Phil.) In 1974. In 1977 he received his doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil.) .

From 1979 to 1982 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bremen and from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Bielefeld , where he took up a professorship for science research after his habilitation in 1988. From 1990 to 1992 he headed the Technology Assessment Department at the Institute for Systems and Technology Analyzes in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1992 and 1993 he was an endowed professor of philosophy at Ulm University . From 1993 to 2017 he was professor for practical philosophy at the University of Münster .

His main areas of work include ethics ( applied ethics , especially bioethics ), philosophical anthropology and political philosophy .

In 2013 he was awarded the Tractatus Prize for philosophical essay writing for his book Der Aufrechte Gang - A History of Anthropological Thought .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Interpret to change. Karl Marx and his philosophy . Munich: CH Beck 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72130-4 .
• The upright walk. A history of anthropological thought . Munich: CH Beck 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63848-0 .
• Why be moral at all? Munich: CH Beck 2004, ISBN 3-406-52196-7 .
• with Peter Weingart and Jürgen Kroll: Race, Blood and Genes. History of eugenics and racial hygiene in Germany . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988, ISBN 978-3-518-57887-2 .
• GenEthics. Problems of the mechanization of human reproduction . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1987, ISBN 3-499-55450-X .
• Theory of Science and the Concept of Paradigms . Stuttgart: Metzler 1981, ISBN 3-476-10202-5 .
• Science as a historical process. The anti-positive turn in the philosophy of science . Munich: Fink 1980, ISBN 9783770518487 .

Editions

• with Myriam Gerhard and Walter Jaeschke (eds.):
  • The Ignorabimus Dispute . Hamburg: Meiner 2013, ISBN 978-3-7873-2158-2 .
  • The Darwinism dispute . Hamburg: Meiner 2012, ISBN 978-3-7873-2157-5 .
  • The dispute over materialism . Hamburg: Meiner 2012, ISBN 978-3-7873-2156-8 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• From wanting to should . In: Neil Roughley and Julius Schälicke (eds.): Wollen. Its meaning, its limits. Münster: Mentis 2015, pp. 147–59, ISBN 978-3957430427 .
• Empirical answers to philosophical questions? On the relationship between philosophical ethics and empirical happiness research . In: Matthias Hoesch, Sebastian Muders and Markus Rüther (eds. :) Glück ,werte, Sinn. Metaethical, ethical and theological approaches to the question of the good life. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 35–47, ISBN 978-3110281460 .
  • extended version reprinted in: Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.): Philosophy between being and should. Normative theory and empirical research in the field of tension. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2019, pp. 39–52, ISBN 978-3-11-061377-3 .

Articles in trade journals

• with Birgit Beck and Barbara Stroop: Artificial happiness? Biotechnical enhancement as a (supposed) shortcut to the good life . In: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 65, 2012, pp. 339–376.
• A science of happiness? Part II: Increasing the Happiness of Large Numbers . In: Journal for philosophical research, 64 (4), 2010, pp. 560-578.
• A science of happiness? Part I: What is happiness? In: Journal for philosophical research, 64 (3), 2010, pp. 389–408.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Bayertz in the catalog of the German National Library
• uni-muenster.de Personal overview of the University of Münster
• uni-muenster.de Publications by Kurt Bayertz, detailed overview

Individual evidence