Susanne Hahn (philosopher)

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Susanne Hahn (* 1964 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German philosopher, who for her habilitation thesis Rationality. A mapping in 2017 received the German Prize for Philosophy and Social Ethics of the Max Uwe Redler Foundation .

Professional background

With his master's thesis on marriage law and civil justice 1933–1936 , Hahn obtained his master's degree at the University of Essen in 1992, completing his studies in modern history, philosophy and German. She then worked as a doctoral student in philosophy at the Universities of Duisburg and Essen from 1992–1998, supported by the Graduate Funding of North Rhine-Westphalia, combined with an activity as a research assistant in the subjects of political science and philosophy. Her doctorate at the University of Essen followed in 1998 with the dissertation Thesis Equilibrium (e) - Examination of a Justification Metaphor . This work was awarded the University Prize of Essen University for outstanding dissertations.

From 1998 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant in the project "Rationing of health services in the liberal constitutional state - ethical, economic and institutional aspects" under the direction of Hartmut Kliemt . From 2001 to 2007 she was a habilitation candidate in the habilitation project for the analysis of rationality concepts, funded from 2001 to 2003 by a Lise Meitner habilitation grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Hahn obtained her habilitation in 2008 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with the habilitation thesis Rationality - A Mapping . With this she received the Venia legendi in philosophy .

In the 2009/2010 winter semester, Hahn worked as a substitute professor for practical philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In the summer semester of 2010, Hartmut Kliemt was represented in the "Management, Philosophy, Economics" course at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management . From the winter semester 2011/2012 to the summer semester 2012 she was a research assistant in the DFG project “A Framework for Business Ethics - Methodical Basics and Rules” - with her own position at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. This was followed by a substitute chair for practical philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at TU Dortmund from the winter semester 2012/2013 to the summer semester 2014. From August 2014 to September 2015, she continued her work as a research assistant in the DFG project “A framework for business ethics - methodological foundations and rules ”- at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. In the same project, she worked from January 2015 to January 2016 as a research assistant at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In December 2015, she was appointed adjunct professor. From March 2016 to March 2018, Hahn was a professor for theoretical philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.

Work areas

Hahn's research focuses on the subject areas

  • Normativity - characterization of norms and systems of norms, genesis and justification of norms (equilibrium of considerations)
  • Concepts of rationality (classic philosophical understanding of rationality, game-theoretical rationality, bounded rationality), positioning of the rationality topic in the overall spectrum of philosophical problems, especially in the philosophy of action
  • Methods in philosophy - e.g. B. the process of conceptual explication (rational reconstruction) in the application
  • Business Ethics - Attribution of Responsibility ; Methods of business ethics argumentation
  • Digitization - epistemological and ethical reflections

Web links

Fonts

  • Together with Hartmut Kliemt: Economy without ethics? An economic-philosophical analysis, Reclam, Stuttgart 2017.
  • Rationality - A mapping, mentis, Münster 2013.
  • Thought equilibrium (e) - testing a justification metaphor, Alber, Freiburg 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victoria Meinschäfer: Susanne Hahn was awarded the highest endowed German prize for philosophy. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , January 26, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 17, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-duesseldorf.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr