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Introduction
I'm Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt working on the ethical and political implications of biotechnologies. I was part of the interdisciplinary Research Platform Life-Science-Governance at the University of Vienna and visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetorics at UC Berkeley.
My research interests include biopolitics, bioethics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, as well as German and Italian Philosophy.
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August 2019 - present
February 2010 - April 2014
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- Project Manager
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- DNA and Immigration. Ethical, Legal, Social Aspects of DNA Analysis for Family Reunification in Austria, Finland and Germany
Education
October 1993 - January 2002
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In the year 2000, just after the new Austrian coalition government that included Jörg Haider's right-wing populist FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party) assumed power, the annual Vienna Opera Ball took place as usual. Like the "Prima della Scala" of Milan, this glamorous event, where the wealthiest of the wealthy celebrate a media-intensive night out, attra...
Starting from the well-known video game series "The Legend of Zelda", the present essay explores the connection between Beauty, Goodness, and Truth in the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Thomas Aquinas to Hans-Georg Gadamer. It becomes evident that "The Legend of Zelda" can also unveil existential truths.
Wenn die Natur zum Gegenstand der Technik wird, wie verändert das die Bedeutung der Begriffe Natur und Technik? Ist ein vergegenständlichender Herrschaftsdiskurs noch angemessen, wo Technik auf die Natur des Menschen selbst zugreift? Schon in der technischen Vereinnahmung nicht-menschlicher Natur gerät er ja ins Wanken. Doch vielleicht bietet die «...
Despite the crisis in institutionalised religion, religious questions are occupying philosophical reflection more than ever. This volume compiles different approaches to the philosophy of religion, which at the same time deal with current topics in an exemplary manner. Important approaches from the history of philosophy are reflected on, as are the...
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
(https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/making-communism-hermeneutical-reading-vattimo-and-zabala/)
Knowledge transfer from universities to other portions of society is highly relevant in both academia and public policy. However, the focus on high-quality research outputs has forced researchers to concentrate their efforts mainly on "science-to-science" achievements. Knowledge transfer activities are usually reduced to topics that are associated...
Due to the shift from genetic determinism to genetic probabilism the
translation of genetic knowledge from the realm of science into the realm of
real-life decision-making paradoxically results in the production of radical
uncertainty. My thesis is that although genetic knowledge does not produce certainty
or propositional truth it perhaps allows t...
Due to the shift from genetic determinism to genetic probabilism the translation of genetic knowledge from the realm of science into the realm of real-life decision-making paradoxically results in the production of radical uncertainty. My thesis is that although genetic knowledge does not produce certainty or propositional truth it perhaps allows t...
Die Staaten der Europäischen Union haben in den vergangenen Jahren ein »biotechnologisches Grenzregime« errichtet, das über ein nahezu totales Wissen über die Körper von Einwanderern und Staatsbürgern verfügt. Die gesammelten biometrischen Daten reichen von Fingerabdrücken und Iris-Scans zur Identitätsfeststellung über Röntgenbilder des Körpers zum...
Taking as starting point the huge media-hype around C. Venter’s announcement of the creation of an artificial living cell in 2010, the chapter firstly explores the question if synthetic biology really amounts to playing God, given the different ways the Judeo-Christian tradition conceives the relation between man an nature, to move then on to the c...
Welche Konsequenzen hat die Schaffung künstlicher Intelligenz und genetisch manipulierten Lebens für das Verhältnis von Natur und Kultur? Die Forschungspraxis der Technik- und Lebenswissenschaften zieht tief greifende Veränderungen basaler Konzepte nach sich - insbesondere das interdependente Verhältnis von Natur und Kultur ist gekennzeichnet von e...
Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in immigration cases. Drawing on policy documents, legal frameworks, case study material and interviews with representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisation and immigration authorities, imm...
Nikolas Rose gehört zu den renommiertesten und meist zitierten britischen Soziologen der Gegenwart. Das 2007 erschienene Politics of Life Itself gilt heute als Standardwerk der Soziologie der Lebenswissenschaften im Kontext fortgeschrittener liberaler Demokratien. Roses Versuch den Gendiskurs in die spezifisch liberale Regierungsform einzuschreiben...
The notion of ‘posthuman dignity’ first appeared in a paper entitled ‘In Defense of Posthuman Dignity’, which Nick Bostrom published in 2005 in the Journal Bioethics. In this paper, he stresses that neither means nor ends of enhancement technologies advocated by the exponents of the transhumanist or posthumanist movement endanger human dignity or t...
Starting with the pseudo-Aristotelian “Physiognomica” science tried to visualize human psychological predispositions in order to predict individual behavior. If the soul is the form of the body, as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas stated, it should be possible to deduce the nature of the soul from the features of the body. This simple model of the rela...
Context • Josef Mitterer has become known for criticizing the main exponents of analytic and constructivist philoso-phy for their blind adoption of a dualistic epistemology based on an alleged ontological difference between world and words. Judith Butler, who has developed an influential model of (de)constructivist feminism and has been labeled a l...
Auch wenn Gianni Vattimo, der Begründer einer als "Schwaches Denken" bekannt gewordenen hermeneutischen Ontologie, im Unterschied zu anderen bedeutenden zeitgenössischen Philosophen dem "Heidenapostel" – abgese-hen von einem Aufsatz zur Paulusinterpretation des frühen Heidegger –, keinen eigenständigen Text gewidmet hat, spielt die Auseinandersetzu...
DNA analysis for family reunification is a longstanding and widespread practice, but also a highly problematic one, as it is a battleground of conflicting values and interests, which have to be carefully weighed against each other: on the one hand, the right of the sovereign state to regulate immigration and prevent fraud and child trafficking; on...
Starting with an analysis of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower as defining feature of modernity, the present essay moves on to discuss different interpretations of “live” in the political theories of Giorgio Agamben and Hanna Arendt. The aim is to understand what transformations biopower has undergone since Foucault’s first studies. According to...
