Konrad Ott
Biographic Data
| ID | 288979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konrad Ott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konrad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ott |
| SIGNATURE | OTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2377-5963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Zur reformatorischen Zukunft der Evangelischen Kirche
Die Autorin und der Autor vermissen ein entschlossenes Aufbäumen der volkskirchlichen Trägerschichten gegen deren Niedergang und rechnen mit einer Trendumkehr allein durch eine Besinnung auf den freiheitlichen Geist des Protestantismus, die in vier Gestalten gegenwärtiger Kirchlichkeit - Moralpolitik, Fundamentalismus, Synkretismus und Kulturprotestantismus - je nicht zu finden ist. Demgegenüber braucht es eine genuin evangelische Bestimmung des …
Discourses on Modernity
This collection provides interdisciplinary discussions of the impact of the heritage of modernity in archaeology and related disciplines from a theoretical and philosophical point of view. The ways the philosophical and scientific heritage of modernity shapes current human scientific thought is a much-discussed topic in archaeology, anthropology, and beyond. From central themes of modernity, such as reductionism, materialism, and physicalism, the…
Operationalizing Ocean Health: Toward Integrated Research on Ocean Health and Recovery to Achieve Ocean Sustainability
Public perceptions of climate engineering: Laypersons’ acceptance at different levels of knowledge and intensities of deliberation
Over the past years, new options for addressing global warming and atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations ‐ such as bioenergy carbon capture and storage ‐ have been included in computer models that estimate how much more can be emitted before the global mean temperature increase surpasses 1.5°C. While the public in general remains mainly unaware of these, similar proposals in the past have triggered public protests. The prospect of public opposition th…
Two cultures in the times of interdisciplinary archaeology. A response to commentators
We would like to begin by thanking the journal and the commentators for their time and attention
Between natural and human sciences: On the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology
Prominent voices in archeology have expressed deep skepticism about the role of theory in archeology, while with new, exciting methods at its disposal, archeological science is occasionally perceived as not needing theory at all. This article reflects upon the debate about theory in archeology to arrive at a robust but critical middle-range concept of the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology. It is argued that archeology…
Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble: Makng Kin in the Chthulucene
Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design
With the emergence of modern techniques of environmental analysis and widespread availability of accessible tools and quantitative data, the question of environmental determinism is once again on the agenda. This paper is theoretical in character, attempting, for the benefit of drawing up research designs, to understand and evaluate the character of environmental determinism. We reach three main conclusions: (1) in a typical pattern of research d…
Kommunikation, Sprache und das Inklusionsproblem der Umweltethik
Der Artikel liefert einen Beitrag zur Lösung des Inklusionsproblems der Umweltethik. Ausgehend von einer diskursethischen Rahmenkonzeption wird „Kommunikationsfähigkeit“ als Kriterium direkter moralischer Brücksichtigungswürdigkeit eingeführt. Es werden im Anschluss an einige Beispiele für Kommunikation in der außermenschlichen Natur vier Kommunikationsebenen unterschieden, von denen zwei in der außermenschlichen Natur vorkommen und zwei humanspe…
Richard Hönigswalds Sprachphilosophie und die »Frankfurter« Diskursethik
Nicht von meiner Welt: Zukunftsverantwortung bei der Endlagerung von radioaktiven Reststoffen
Eine Entscheidung über den Verbleib der radioaktiven Reststoffe wird für das Jahr 203 7 angestrebt. Von den Auswirkungen und Folgen der Entscheidung werden hingegen die weit entfernten zukünftigen Generationen betroffen sein. Wir stehen heute vor einem Widerspruch zwischen den Forderungen nach Reversibilität aller Maßnahmen und der Vermeidung eines dauerhaften Handlungsdrucks zukünftiger Generationen. Eine einfache Lösung kann es nicht geben. Die…
Strong sustainability in coastal areas: A conceptual interpretation of SDG 14
Humans derive many tangible and intangible benefits from coastal areas, providing essential components for social and economic development especially of less developed coastal states and island states. At the same time, growing human and environmental pressures in coastal areas have significant impacts on coastal systems, requiring urgent attention in many coastal areas globally. Sustainable development goal (SDG) 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustai…
The significance of meaning. Why Ipbes needs the social sciences and humanities
The term “biodiversity” is often used to describe phenomena of nature, which can be studied without a reference to the socially constructed, evaluative, or indeed normative contexts. In our paper, we challenge this conception by focusing particularly on methodological aspects of biodiversity research. We thereby engage with the idea of interdisciplinary biodiversity research as a scientific approach directed at the recognition and management of c…
Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Handbuch Umweltethik
Wie kaum eine andere Bereichsethik befasst sich die Umweltethik einerseits mit Grundfragen der Philosophie (Naturphilosophie, Anthropologie, politische Philosophie) und berÃ1⁄4hrt andererseits verschiedene Politikfelder (Klimapolitik, Naturschutz, Land- und Forstwirtschaft etc.). Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Grundlagenreflexion und Politiknähe wird zusammengehalten durch argumentative BegrÃ1⁄4ndungen des Umwelt-, Tier- und Naturschutzes, die …
Bringing Sustainability Down to Earth: Heihe River as a Paradigm Case of Sustainable Water Allocation
Habermas on Nature: A Postnormal Reading between Moral Intuitions and Theoretical Restrictiveness
Environmental ethicists typically consider Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action to exclude moral consideration for nonhuman animals. Habermas's early work indeed limits relationships with nature to instrumental ones. Yet, interspersed throughout Habermas's writings are clear indications that nonhuman life deserves moral consideration, and that humans can enter into communicative relationships with nonhumans, however asymmetrical. Habe…
On the Meaning of Eudemonic Arguments for a Deep Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
There are three broad categories of values in environmental ethics: instrumental, inherent moral, and eudemonistic. While instrumental values refer to ways humans are reliant on nature, inherent moral values give natural beings direct moral standing. Eudemonic values can pave the way to a "deep" anthropo-related approach. The article substantiates this claim in six steps. First, it criticizes the dichotomy between instrumental and inherent values…
Institutionalizing Strong Sustainability: A Rawlsian Perspective
The article aims to provide some ethical orientation on how sustainability might be actualized by institutions. Since institutionalization is about rules and organization, it presupposes ideas and concepts by which institutions can be substantiated. After outlining terminology, the article deals with underlying ethical and conceptual problems which are highly relevant for any suggestions concerning institutionalization. These problems are: (a) th…
Ecosystem services and ethics
Introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics on Ethical Aspects of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Developing Countries
Variants of de-growth and deliberative democracy: A Habermasian proposal
Savaged Visions Verwilderte Visionen
Guidelines for a Strong Sustainability – A Proposal for Embedding the Three-Pillar Concept Leitlinien einer starken Nachhaltigkeit – Ein Vorschlag zur Einbettung des Drei-Säulen-Modells
Theoriebildung statt Definitionswirrwarr (Kommentar 2)
Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design
With the emergence of modern techniques of environmental analysis and widespread availability of accessible tools and quantitative data, the question of environmental determinism is once again on the agenda. This paper is theoretical in character, attempting, for the benefit of drawing up research designs, to understand and evaluate the character of environmental determinism. We reach three main conclusions: (1) in a typical pattern of research d…
Variants of de-growth and deliberative democracy: A Habermasian proposal
The significance of meaning. Why Ipbes needs the social sciences and humanities
The term “biodiversity” is often used to describe phenomena of nature, which can be studied without a reference to the socially constructed, evaluative, or indeed normative contexts. In our paper, we challenge this conception by focusing particularly on methodological aspects of biodiversity research. We thereby engage with the idea of interdisciplinary biodiversity research as a scientific approach directed at the recognition and management of c…
Strong sustainability in coastal areas: A conceptual interpretation of SDG 14
Humans derive many tangible and intangible benefits from coastal areas, providing essential components for social and economic development especially of less developed coastal states and island states. At the same time, growing human and environmental pressures in coastal areas have significant impacts on coastal systems, requiring urgent attention in many coastal areas globally. Sustainable development goal (SDG) 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustai…
Introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics on Ethical Aspects of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Developing Countries
Between natural and human sciences: On the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology
Prominent voices in archeology have expressed deep skepticism about the role of theory in archeology, while with new, exciting methods at its disposal, archeological science is occasionally perceived as not needing theory at all. This article reflects upon the debate about theory in archeology to arrive at a robust but critical middle-range concept of the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology. It is argued that archeology…
On the Meaning of Eudemonic Arguments for a Deep Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
There are three broad categories of values in environmental ethics: instrumental, inherent moral, and eudemonistic. While instrumental values refer to ways humans are reliant on nature, inherent moral values give natural beings direct moral standing. Eudemonic values can pave the way to a "deep" anthropo-related approach. The article substantiates this claim in six steps. First, it criticizes the dichotomy between instrumental and inherent values…
Erklären und Verstehen
Die Macht des Dialogs
Klimavorhersage und Klimavorsorge
Vom Marginalitätsparadox zur Kultivierung des Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses - Wird es ernst mit dem Paradigmenwandel
Björn Lomborg: Apocalypse No! - Über einige Maschen der neuen Vermessung der Welt
Theoriebildung statt Definitionswirrwarr (Kommentar 2)
Guidelines for a Strong Sustainability – A Proposal for Embedding the Three-Pillar Concept Leitlinien einer starken Nachhaltigkeit – Ein Vorschlag zur Einbettung des Drei-Säulen-Modells
Savaged Visions Verwilderte Visionen
Variants of de-growth and deliberative democracy: A Habermasian proposal
Ecosystem services and ethics
Introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics on Ethical Aspects of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Developing Countries
Institutionalizing Strong Sustainability: A Rawlsian Perspective
The article aims to provide some ethical orientation on how sustainability might be actualized by institutions. Since institutionalization is about rules and organization, it presupposes ideas and concepts by which institutions can be substantiated. After outlining terminology, the article deals with underlying ethical and conceptual problems which are highly relevant for any suggestions concerning institutionalization. These problems are: (a) th…
Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Handbuch Umweltethik
Wie kaum eine andere Bereichsethik befasst sich die Umweltethik einerseits mit Grundfragen der Philosophie (Naturphilosophie, Anthropologie, politische Philosophie) und berÃ1⁄4hrt andererseits verschiedene Politikfelder (Klimapolitik, Naturschutz, Land- und Forstwirtschaft etc.). Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Grundlagenreflexion und Politiknähe wird zusammengehalten durch argumentative BegrÃ1⁄4ndungen des Umwelt-, Tier- und Naturschutzes, die …
Bringing Sustainability Down to Earth: Heihe River as a Paradigm Case of Sustainable Water Allocation
Habermas on Nature: A Postnormal Reading between Moral Intuitions and Theoretical Restrictiveness
Environmental ethicists typically consider Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action to exclude moral consideration for nonhuman animals. Habermas's early work indeed limits relationships with nature to instrumental ones. Yet, interspersed throughout Habermas's writings are clear indications that nonhuman life deserves moral consideration, and that humans can enter into communicative relationships with nonhumans, however asymmetrical. Habe…
On the Meaning of Eudemonic Arguments for a Deep Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
There are three broad categories of values in environmental ethics: instrumental, inherent moral, and eudemonistic. While instrumental values refer to ways humans are reliant on nature, inherent moral values give natural beings direct moral standing. Eudemonic values can pave the way to a "deep" anthropo-related approach. The article substantiates this claim in six steps. First, it criticizes the dichotomy between instrumental and inherent values…
Richard Hönigswalds Sprachphilosophie und die »Frankfurter« Diskursethik
Nicht von meiner Welt: Zukunftsverantwortung bei der Endlagerung von radioaktiven Reststoffen
Eine Entscheidung über den Verbleib der radioaktiven Reststoffe wird für das Jahr 203 7 angestrebt. Von den Auswirkungen und Folgen der Entscheidung werden hingegen die weit entfernten zukünftigen Generationen betroffen sein. Wir stehen heute vor einem Widerspruch zwischen den Forderungen nach Reversibilität aller Maßnahmen und der Vermeidung eines dauerhaften Handlungsdrucks zukünftiger Generationen. Eine einfache Lösung kann es nicht geben. Die…
Strong sustainability in coastal areas: A conceptual interpretation of SDG 14
Humans derive many tangible and intangible benefits from coastal areas, providing essential components for social and economic development especially of less developed coastal states and island states. At the same time, growing human and environmental pressures in coastal areas have significant impacts on coastal systems, requiring urgent attention in many coastal areas globally. Sustainable development goal (SDG) 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustai…
The significance of meaning. Why Ipbes needs the social sciences and humanities
The term “biodiversity” is often used to describe phenomena of nature, which can be studied without a reference to the socially constructed, evaluative, or indeed normative contexts. In our paper, we challenge this conception by focusing particularly on methodological aspects of biodiversity research. We thereby engage with the idea of interdisciplinary biodiversity research as a scientific approach directed at the recognition and management of c…
Kommunikation, Sprache und das Inklusionsproblem der Umweltethik
Der Artikel liefert einen Beitrag zur Lösung des Inklusionsproblems der Umweltethik. Ausgehend von einer diskursethischen Rahmenkonzeption wird „Kommunikationsfähigkeit“ als Kriterium direkter moralischer Brücksichtigungswürdigkeit eingeführt. Es werden im Anschluss an einige Beispiele für Kommunikation in der außermenschlichen Natur vier Kommunikationsebenen unterschieden, von denen zwei in der außermenschlichen Natur vorkommen und zwei humanspe…
Public perceptions of climate engineering: Laypersons’ acceptance at different levels of knowledge and intensities of deliberation
Over the past years, new options for addressing global warming and atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations ‐ such as bioenergy carbon capture and storage ‐ have been included in computer models that estimate how much more can be emitted before the global mean temperature increase surpasses 1.5°C. While the public in general remains mainly unaware of these, similar proposals in the past have triggered public protests. The prospect of public opposition th…
Two cultures in the times of interdisciplinary archaeology. A response to commentators
We would like to begin by thanking the journal and the commentators for their time and attention
Between natural and human sciences: On the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology
Prominent voices in archeology have expressed deep skepticism about the role of theory in archeology, while with new, exciting methods at its disposal, archeological science is occasionally perceived as not needing theory at all. This article reflects upon the debate about theory in archeology to arrive at a robust but critical middle-range concept of the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology. It is argued that archeology…
Philosophy (17 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (6 works)