Thomas Schramme

Thomas Schramme (born July 6, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher .

Life

After completing his civil service, Schramme studied philosophy , sociology and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he heard Jürgen Habermas on questions of justice and Anton Leist on applied ethics . He then moved to the Free University of Berlin and studied with Ursula Wolf and Axel Honneth until 1995 . After receiving a scholarship and studying in Oxford scratch in 1998 in Berlin in Philosophy with his thesis patient and person for psychiatric illness phrase doctorate .

From 1998 to 2004 Thomas Schramme worked as an assistant at the Philosophical Department of the University of Mannheim with Ursula Wolf. In 2004 he completed his habilitation on the subject of justice as inclusion. In his habilitation thesis, Schramme takes a non- egalitarian position that is primarily oriented towards individual needs and less towards equality . Since June 2002, Schramme has been a member of the editorial board of Polar magazine , which appears in Berlin. Since 2005 he has offered a teaching position for the module medical ethics at the University of Zurich as part of a master’s course in applied ethics .

From September 2005 to September 2009 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales in Swansea . In October 2009 Schramme became Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Hamburg . Furthermore, from October 2013 to March 2014, Schramme worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld in a research group on the subject of “Normative Aspects of Public Health”.

In 2016, Schramme was offered a professorship at Liverpool University in August of the same year.

Research areas

Thomas Schramme works in research and teaching in the fields of ethics , political philosophy , medical philosophy and bioethics . As a philosopher, he also deals with the classification of mental disorders , for example in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .

A special research topic is the conflict between paternalism and the right to self-determination . On the one hand , the right to individual self-determination is seen under the aspect of freedom and its limits. On the other hand, the question of when a person begins to harm himself through an act is of interest. In this context, Schramme takes a liberal stance that can accept extensive body modifications .

Publications

Monographs

• Patients and people. On the concept of mental illness. Fischer, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 978-3-596-14692-5 .
  • New edition: Mental illnesses from a philosophical point of view. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003, ISBN 978-3-898-06235-0 .
• Bioethics. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37138-2 .
• Justice and Social Practice. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38180-0 .
• Theories of Health Justice. Just Enough Health. Rowman & Littlefield International, London 2018, ISBN 978-1786601445 .

Editions

• Philosophy and Psychiatry. Together with Johannes Thome. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-017800-5 .
• Disease theories. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-29611-0 .
• Being amoral. Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity. MIT Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-0262027915 .
• John Stuart Mill: About Freedom. Together with Michael Schefczyk. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3050060385 .
• On Moral Sentimentalism. Together with Neil Roughley. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1443876087 .
• Ethics of the psyche. Normative questions in dealing with psychological deviation . Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3593501901 .
• Normative Aspects of Public Health. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Together with Stefan Huster. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3848727896 .
• Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Together with Steven Edwards. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-9401786874 .
• New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3319354736 .
• Forms of Fellow Feeling. Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency. Together with Neil Roughley. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017, ISBN 978-1107109513 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Schramme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Schramme on Academia.edu
• University of Hamburg: Thomas Schramme ( Memento from January 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Johannes Fischer: egalitarian and nonegalitarian justice. (PDF; 82 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Philosophy in Hamburg: Thomas Schramme. In: Information Philosophy 2/2013, p. 111.
2. ↑ Polar magazine .
3. ↑ Communication from the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 18, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016 
4. ↑ Interview Thomas Schramme and Christian Weber: We should respect obstinacy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 118 of May 24, 2013, p. 16.