Martin Gorke

Martin Gorke (* 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German biologist and environmental ethicist . He is currently professor of environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald and, along with Konrad Ott, is one of the most important German theorists of environmental and nature conservation ethics .

Life

Martin Gorke studied biology and philosophy at the Universities of Bochum and Bayreuth . In 1985 he finished his studies with a biology diploma ( zoology , botany , biogeography ) and received his doctorate in science in 1989 in Bayreuth with a dissertation on the behavioral ecology and population dynamics of the black-headed gull . In 1997 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on the ethical dimension of species extinction .

From 1997 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the professorship for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald, and from 2004 to 2005 he was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2008 he completed his habilitation in environmental ethics on the subject of the intrinsic value of nature. Ethical rationale and consequences . From 2010 to 2015 he was the area supervisor in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve for the DFG's “ Biodiversity Exploratories ” project.

In 2015 he was appointed to the professorship for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald.

His main areas of work are holistic environmental ethics, species protection, scientific theory of ecology , natural philosophy, Albert Schweitzer and sea bird ecology .

Publications

• Eigenvalue of Nature: Ethical Justification and Consequences. Hirzel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7776-2102-9
• The Death of our Planet's Species: A Challenge to Ecology and Ethics. Island Press 2003, ISBN 1-55963-957-1
• Konrad Ott, Martin Gorke: Spectrum of environmental ethics. Series: Ecology and Economic Research. Volume 36. Metropolis 2000, ISBN 3-895-18289-3
• Species extinction: from ecological theory to the intrinsic value of nature. Klett-Cotta 1999, ISBN 3-608-91985-6
• The ethical dimension of species extinction: from ecological theory to the intrinsic value of nature. also dissertation, University of Bayreuth 1996

literature

• Martin Gorke: extinction of species. From ecological theory to the intrinsic value of nature. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-84-234931-5 , p. 2 (unchanged reprint of the original edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999)

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Gorke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Gorke Information on the website of the University of Greifswald (with picture)
• Hope is a moral duty. An interview with Martin Gorke by Eckart Löhr.