Michael Weingarten

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Michael Weingarten (* 1954 ) is a German philosopher and university professor.

life and work

After studying philosophy, literary studies, politics and sociology in Marburg and Frankfurt / Main, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy on the basic problems of evolutionary theory in 1989. Since 1989 he has been a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Marburg . From 1980 to 1999 he worked in the critical evolution theory group at the Senckenberg Research Institute . In 2002 he was scientific director of the theory laboratory at the University of Jena . He is currently a lecturer for the Ethical-Philosophical Basic Studies (EPG) as part of the teaching degree in Baden-Württemberg at the University of Stuttgart, from 2004 to 2008 he was also a substitute professor at the University of Stuttgart , and since 2007 he has been honorary professor at the University of Marburg .

His work focuses on the theory of science and the history of science in the biosciences, hermeneutics and social philosophy.

Michael Weingarten is a member of the Die Linke party .

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Evolutionary epistemology and new worldviews . 1989
  • Organisms: Objects or Subjects of Evolution? . 1997
  • Perceive . 2003
  • Life (bio-ethical) . 2003
  • Dying (bio-ethical) . 2004
  • Death (bio-ethical) . 2007

Co-author

  • Jörg Zimmer, Michael Weingarten, Stefano Garroni, Hans Heinz Holz: Critical Theory . 1994
  • Eve-Marie Engels , Thomas Junker , Michael Weingarten: Ethics of the life sciences . 1998
  • Peter Janich , Michael Weingarten: Philosophy of Science of Biology . 1999
  • Gerhard Schlosser, Michael Weingarten: Forms of explanation in biology . 2002
  • Mathias Gutmann , Dirk Hartmann , Michael Weingarten: culture, action, science . 2002
  • Siegfried Blasche, Mathias Gutmann, Michael Weingarten: Representation Mundi . 2004

editor

  • Michael Weingarten (ed.): A "different" hermeneutics. Georg Misch on his 70th birthday - commemorative publication from 1948 . 2005
  • Mathias Gutmann, Michael Weingarten: Thinking and acting. From the estate 1 of Josef König . 2005
  • Michael Weingarten (Ed.): Structuring of space and landscape . 2005
  • Christoph Görg , Christine Hertler, Engelbert Schramm , Michael Weingarten: Approaches to biodiversity. 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Weingarten, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1954