Michael Schefczyk (philosopher)

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Michael Schefczyk is a German university professor for practical philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he is also founding president of the Society for Utilitarian Studies and has been the dean of the KIT faculty for humanities and social sciences since winter semester 2017.

Live and act

He completed his studies in philosophy, public law, political science and economics at the universities of Munich , Cologne and Göttingen with a master's degree and a degree in economics. Scientific assistant positions followed at the universities of Witten / Herdecke, Zurich (UZH) and Sankt Gallen (HSG).

He received his doctorate in economics with a thesis on the problem of the legitimation of state redistribution and the Venia Legendi philosophy at the University of Zurich (UZH) with his habilitation thesis on the problem of historical injustice . This was followed by professorships at the Universities of St. Gallen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, LMU Munich and Münster, as well as a call to the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

From September 2010 to March 2015 Schefczyk was Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg; from April 2012 to March 2015 Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. In the winter semester 2014/15 he was a fellow at the DFG research group for media cultures in computer simulation (mecs) and until spring 2017 he was a private lecturer at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Zurich .

Since April 2015 W3 Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and since autumn 2017 Dean of the KIT Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Engagements

  • Over 150 articles for the features section, mainly Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  • Michael Schefczyk is Editor-in-Chief of Moral Philosophy and Politics,
  • Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project, University College London (UCL),
  • Chair of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS),
  • Founding President of the Society for Utilitarian Studies,
  • Liaison professor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
  • Member of the Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP),
  • Member of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil),
  • Member of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS) and Amnesty International.
  • Michael Schefczyk has been Dean of the KIT Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences since the 2017 winter semester.

Work (selection)

  • Moral Philosophy & Politics
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2017 (2): Special Issue: "Legitimate Expectations"
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2017 (1): Symposium: "Autonomy and The Morality of Freedom"
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2016 (2): Special Issue: "The Ethics of Immigration in a Non-Ideal World" (Guest Editors: Jan Brezger / Andreas Cassee / Anna Goppel)
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2016 (1): Symposium: "Brain Drain: The Merits and Limits of Furthering Normative Solutions in Source Countries" (Guest Editor: Eszter Kollár)
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2015 (2): Symposia: "Discrimination" (Guest Editor: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen) / "The Limits of Markets"
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2015 (1): Symposium "Intergenerational Justice and Natural Resources"
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2014 (2): Special Issue "Fair Trade"
  • Moral Philosophy & Politics 2014 (1): Special Issue "Global Tax Justice"

Publications: Editorships (selection):

  • Together with Christoph Schmidt-Petri: John Stuart Mill, Selected Works, Volume IV (Democracy and Representation), Hamburg 2016
  • Together with Christoph Schmidt-Petri: John Stuart Mill, Selected Works, Volume III / 2 (Freedom, Progress and the Tasks of the State: Economy and the State), Hamburg 2015
  • Together with Christoph Schmidt-Petri: John Stuart Mill, Selected Works, Volume III / 1 (Freedom, Progress and the Tasks of the State: Individual, Morality and Society), Hamburg 2014
  • Together with Mark Peacock: Guest editor of Analysis & Criticism 2004 (2) “Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Economics” and Analysis & Criticism 2005 (1) “Ernst Fehr on Human Altruism. An Interdisciplinary Debate "

Monographs

  • Schefczyk, Michael, 2012, Responsibility for Historical Injustice. A philosophical investigation, series' Ideas & Arguments, Berlin: De Gruyter
  • Schefczyk, Michael & Dominique Kuenzle, 2009, John Stuart Mill for an introduction, Hamburg: Junius Verlag
  • Schefczyk, Michael, 20052, Redistribution as a legitimation problem, Practical Philosophy Series, Munich & Freiurg: Alber Verlag
  • Schefczyk, Michael, 1999, People and Preferences. On the problem of intertemporal utility maximization, Marburg: Metropolis
  • Schefczyk, Michael, 1995, Moral Without Use. An apology of the Kantian formalism, St. Augustin: Academia Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Schefczyk on the KIT website
  2. ^ Website of the Society for Utilitarian Studies
  3. ↑ List of publications by Michael Schefczyk KIT PDF accessed on June 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schefczyk, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century