Konrad Ott

Konrad Ott (born 20 May 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics.

Biography[edit]

Konrad Ott was born 1959 in Bergkamen, Germany. From 1981 to 1986, he studied philosophy, history and German philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is regarded as a representative of the 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School.^[1]

Ott is currently Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. From 1997 to 2012 Ott was professor for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald. Ott is also known as a critic of mass migration to Europe. Regarding migration from Africa via the Mediterranean, Ott postulated in 2018 that "this route must be dried out"; the merit of Italy's Home Office Secretary Matteo Salvini should be acknowledged "at least [...] to have made this route less attractive".^[2]

Bibliography[edit]

In German:

• Ökologie und Ethik: Ein Versuch praktischer Philosophie. Tübingen 1993
• Vom Begründen zum Handeln: Aufsätze zur angewandten Ethik. Tübingen 1996
• Ipso facto: Zur ethischen Begründung normativer Implikate wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Ethik in der Informatik. Tübingen 1999 (as co-editor)
• Spektrum der Umweltethik. Marburg 2000 (as co-editor)
• Moralbegründungen zur Einführung. Hamburg 2001; Zweite Auflage 2005
• Theorie und Praxis starker Nachhaltigkeit. Marburg 2004; Zweite Auflage 2008 (as co-author)
• Umweltethik zur Einführung. Hamburg 2010
• Zuwanderung und Moral. Stuttgart 2016
• Naturethik und biblische Schöpfungserzählung. Ein diskurstheoretischer und narrativ-hermeneutischer Brückenschlag. (Together with Christof Hardmeier.) Stuttgart 2015
• Umweltethik. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.68742

In English:

• The Case for Strong Sustainability
• Building a 'theory of sustainable development': two salient conceptions within the German discourse (as co-author)
• On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability
• Environmental Ethics. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.71420

External links[edit]

• Universität Greifswald - Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie: Professur für Umweltethik Professorship for Environmental Ethics at the University of Greifswald, Germany
• International Masters Programme "Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation"

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