Rafael Capurro

Rafael Capurro

Rafael Capurro (right), here in 2014 with Wolfgang Reinbold from the House of Religions at the SUMA Congress & Award “Ways out of the surveillance catastrophe” in the New Town Hall of Hanover

Rafael Capurro (born November 20, 1945 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a philosopher and until 2009 was a professor of information science in the business informatics course at the Stuttgart Media University .

career

Capurro first studied humanities in Chile , then in Germany 1972–1973 Documentation at the Frankfurt Teaching Institute for Documentation . He then did his doctorate at the University of Düsseldorf in 1978 on the subject of "Information". In 1980 he moved from Düsseldorf to Karlsruhe, where he became an advisor to the managing director of FIZ Karlsruhe . From Stuttgart in 1986 he was offered a professorship for information science and information ethics at the Stuttgart Media University (HdM). In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart with the subject " Hermeneutics of specialist information ". He then became a private lecturer at the university. At the beginning of 2009 Capurro retired.

His research focuses on information ethics , media philosophy and the fundamentals of information science.

Formations & memberships

• Founder of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE), Karlsruhe.
• Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) of the EU Commission from 2001 to 2004
• Founding member of the World Technology Network (WTN).
• Research Fellow of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) (2003–2005).
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the ICT & S Center (The Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society) University of Salzburg (2005–2008).
• Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (2004–2018)

Major works

• Information . Munich 1978 (PhD)
• Hermeneutics of specialist information . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1986, ISBN 3-495-47593-1 (habilitation)
• Life in the information age . Berlin 1995.

Web links

Commons : Rafael Capurro  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Rafael Capurro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Own website
• Michael Nagenborg: A change of place of thinking . Interview in Telepolis , March 20, 2005