Niels Gottschalk-Mazouz

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Niels Gottschalk-Mazouz (born May 3, 1967 - November 18, 2019 ) was a German philosopher and physicist .

Life

Gottschalk-Mazouz studied physics, philosophy and the history of science in Berlin, Leipzig and Tübingen. From 1997 to 2008 he worked at the University of Stuttgart, where he received his doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on discourse ethics and in 2007 with a thesis on the concept of knowledge. From 2008 to 2012 he headed a working group on scientific-theoretical aspects of computer simulations within the framework of the excellence cluster "Simulation Technology" at the University of Stuttgart , since 2008 he has been Professor of Social Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth , where he was involved in the Philosophy & Economics course.

He worked in various, mostly interdisciplinary research projects on health, the environment and IT, where he tried to clarify ethical and theoretical questions. His main research interests lay in the fields of philosophy of science , philosophy of technology , theory of action , ethics and social philosophy . Most recently, he was particularly interested in the role of models in economics (especially in comparison to the natural sciences), in the characterization of personal autonomy in contrast to so-called autonomous machines, in the future of privacy in the information age, as well as in deliberative theories of politics and Ethics.

Publications (selection)

  • Discourse ethics. Theories - Developments - Perspectives, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2000.
  • Add. with Christoph Hubig and Nadia Mazouz: Study on the Sustainability of Nuclear Energy Use, Bonn: Series Reaktorsicherheit und Strahlenschutz of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 2002.
  • Add. with Nadia Mazouz (ed.): Sustainability and Global Change: Integrative Research Between Normativity and Uncertainty (with Nadia Mazouz), Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2003.
  • (Ed.) Perspektiven der Discursethik, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004.
  • Add. with Günter Zurhorst: Illness and Health, Series "Philosophy and Psychology in Dialog", Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Bayreuth: Personal details on the homepage at the University of Bayreuth. In: www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalk-Mazouz, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1967
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2019