Dieter Birnbacher
Biographic Data
| ID | 955061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dieter Birnbacher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Birnbacher |
| SIGNATURE | BIRNBACHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethical Counseling on Assisted Suicide in German and Swiss Right‐To‐Die Organizations
During the last years, more and more countries have introduced a practice of assisted dying in their medical system and regulated it by separate laws or by additions to the existing body of criminal law. In this respect, the two neighboring countries, Germany and Switzerland, are exceptional cases. In both countries, there exists a long‐standing and largely uncontested legal prohibition of euthanasia, but only minimal state regulation concerning …
Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events
Contemporary deep-reaching changes - whether in financial or real economy, in Europe's political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations - are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general quest…
Doing and Allowing in the Context of Physician-Assisted Suicide
Supporting the (active) rational suicide of a patient with a terminal disease is opposed by a majority of German doctors, whereas assistance in such patients’ hastening their death by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is predominantly judged to be acceptable. Are these two positions compatible? It is argued that the normative differentiation cannot be justified by the fact that the assistance in active suicide is itself active, wher…
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung entstand in den Jahren 1814 bis 1818 in Dresden und erschien im Dezember 1818 mit der Jahreszahl 1819 bei Brockhaus in Leipzig. Unmittelbar nachdem das Hauptwerk erschienen war, habilitierte sich Schopenhauer mit seinem Buch an der Berliner Universität und wurde dort Privatdozent.
Euthanasia
Paternalism in Education and the Future
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality.
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Negative Kausalität
The term “negative causality” denotes a highly controversial problem in metaphysics: Can negative entities such as the absence or the non-occurrence of certain events be causes or causal factors? This question is situated at the intersection of a series of fundamental questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries, questions concerning not only the nature of causality, actions, and events, but also the relationship between causality and moral a…
Can There Be Such a Thing as Ethical Expertise
Ethics in the 21st century is threatened by a split between practical philosophy as a full-blown academic discipline and applied ethics as pragmatic problem-solving inside the political process. The place of the professional philosopher sitting on medical and other 'ethics committees' as an 'ethical expert' is somewhere in between. But where exactly? How is his role defined? Is the expertise he brings to bear on practical decisions of a purely te…
Pathologien an der Nahtstelle von Recht und Ethik in der Biomedizin
Contrary to one of the tenets of normativism in the philosophy of law the law is not universally a self-contained normative system but takes in part recourse to the norms of extra-legal disciplines and institutions. This recourse is significant especially where legal judgements involve highly complex judgements requiring the help of experts or are meant to give room to adaptations to fast-changing scientific or technical developments. The contrib…
Climate Responsibility as a Distributional Issue
It is evident that the problem of global climate change is closely bound up with questions of distributional justice, both intra- and intergenerational. Questions of justice are raised by two kinds of burdens: reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases, and the financial and knowledge transfers necessary to enable the poorest countries to compensate the harms suffered by the ongoing process. Both burdens involve considerable costs and opportu…
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality
Binmore’s Humeanism
David Hume is quoted in Binmore’s book Natural Justice more than any other author, past or present, and throughout with a markedly positive attitude. It is argued that this affinity is reflected in many characteristic features of Binmore’s approach to fairness and social justice and especially in the central role motivational issues are made to play in his theory. It is further argued that Binmore shares with Hume not only important strengths but…
Kommentar zu Gaertner/Schwettmann
The changes in the meaning of social justice described by Gaertner and Schwettmann are interpreted as a shift of emphasis within a relatively constant family of meanings. It is argued that any workable concept of social justice is the product of a balancing of a number of different principles of justice that are strictly incompatible and easily come into conflict with one another. In response to changing economic and cultural conditions certain m…
Stichwort 26
Wittgenstein et la musique
Birnbacher DieterBirnbacher Dieter. Wittgenstein et la musique. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 98, n°3, 2000. pp. 572-588
Éthique utilitariste et éthique environnementale
Birnbacher DieterBirnbacher Dieter. Éthique utilitariste et éthique environnementale — une mésalliance?. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 96, n°3, 1998. pp. 427-448
Utilitaristische Ethik und Tötungsverbot
One of the standard criticisms of classical utilitarian is that it is unable to provide an adequate ethical foundation for the wrongness of killing. It is reasoned that the five arguments against killing available to the classical utilitarian are indeed sufficient to provide such a foundation and that recourse to preference utilitarianism is neither called for nor helpful since it generates a number of problems of its own. On this basis, Singer’s…
Das moralische Dilemma der nuklearen Abschreckung
The moral dilemma of nuclear deterrence arises from two conflicting facts: the fact that in a world of conflicting superpowers with nuclear arsenals preserving peace must have an overriding moral priority; and that a policy of mutual nuclear deterrence, which seems well suited to achieve this aim, faces grave moral difficulties on its own, the main difficulty being the moral indefensibility of the act of retaliation threatened in case of attack. …
A Priority Rule for Environmental Ethics
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality
A Priority Rule for Environmental Ethics
Das moralische Dilemma der nuklearen Abschreckung
The moral dilemma of nuclear deterrence arises from two conflicting facts: the fact that in a world of conflicting superpowers with nuclear arsenals preserving peace must have an overriding moral priority; and that a policy of mutual nuclear deterrence, which seems well suited to achieve this aim, faces grave moral difficulties on its own, the main difficulty being the moral indefensibility of the act of retaliation threatened in case of attack. …
Utilitaristische Ethik und Tötungsverbot
One of the standard criticisms of classical utilitarian is that it is unable to provide an adequate ethical foundation for the wrongness of killing. It is reasoned that the five arguments against killing available to the classical utilitarian are indeed sufficient to provide such a foundation and that recourse to preference utilitarianism is neither called for nor helpful since it generates a number of problems of its own. On this basis, Singer’s…
Éthique utilitariste et éthique environnementale
Birnbacher DieterBirnbacher Dieter. Éthique utilitariste et éthique environnementale — une mésalliance?. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 96, n°3, 1998. pp. 427-448
Wittgenstein et la musique
Birnbacher DieterBirnbacher Dieter. Wittgenstein et la musique. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 98, n°3, 2000. pp. 572-588
Stichwort 26
Kommentar zu Gaertner/Schwettmann
The changes in the meaning of social justice described by Gaertner and Schwettmann are interpreted as a shift of emphasis within a relatively constant family of meanings. It is argued that any workable concept of social justice is the product of a balancing of a number of different principles of justice that are strictly incompatible and easily come into conflict with one another. In response to changing economic and cultural conditions certain m…
Binmore’s Humeanism
David Hume is quoted in Binmore’s book Natural Justice more than any other author, past or present, and throughout with a markedly positive attitude. It is argued that this affinity is reflected in many characteristic features of Binmore’s approach to fairness and social justice and especially in the central role motivational issues are made to play in his theory. It is further argued that Binmore shares with Hume not only important strengths but…
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality
Pathologien an der Nahtstelle von Recht und Ethik in der Biomedizin
Contrary to one of the tenets of normativism in the philosophy of law the law is not universally a self-contained normative system but takes in part recourse to the norms of extra-legal disciplines and institutions. This recourse is significant especially where legal judgements involve highly complex judgements requiring the help of experts or are meant to give room to adaptations to fast-changing scientific or technical developments. The contrib…
Climate Responsibility as a Distributional Issue
It is evident that the problem of global climate change is closely bound up with questions of distributional justice, both intra- and intergenerational. Questions of justice are raised by two kinds of burdens: reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases, and the financial and knowledge transfers necessary to enable the poorest countries to compensate the harms suffered by the ongoing process. Both burdens involve considerable costs and opportu…
Negative Kausalität
The term “negative causality” denotes a highly controversial problem in metaphysics: Can negative entities such as the absence or the non-occurrence of certain events be causes or causal factors? This question is situated at the intersection of a series of fundamental questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries, questions concerning not only the nature of causality, actions, and events, but also the relationship between causality and moral a…
Can There Be Such a Thing as Ethical Expertise
Ethics in the 21st century is threatened by a split between practical philosophy as a full-blown academic discipline and applied ethics as pragmatic problem-solving inside the political process. The place of the professional philosopher sitting on medical and other 'ethics committees' as an 'ethical expert' is somewhere in between. But where exactly? How is his role defined? Is the expertise he brings to bear on practical decisions of a purely te…
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality.
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
Euthanasia
Paternalism in Education and the Future
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung entstand in den Jahren 1814 bis 1818 in Dresden und erschien im Dezember 1818 mit der Jahreszahl 1819 bei Brockhaus in Leipzig. Unmittelbar nachdem das Hauptwerk erschienen war, habilitierte sich Schopenhauer mit seinem Buch an der Berliner Universität und wurde dort Privatdozent.
Doing and Allowing in the Context of Physician-Assisted Suicide
Supporting the (active) rational suicide of a patient with a terminal disease is opposed by a majority of German doctors, whereas assistance in such patients’ hastening their death by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is predominantly judged to be acceptable. Are these two positions compatible? It is argued that the normative differentiation cannot be justified by the fact that the assistance in active suicide is itself active, wher…
Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events
Contemporary deep-reaching changes - whether in financial or real economy, in Europe's political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations - are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general quest…
Ethical Counseling on Assisted Suicide in German and Swiss Right‐To‐Die Organizations
During the last years, more and more countries have introduced a practice of assisted dying in their medical system and regulated it by separate laws or by additions to the existing body of criminal law. In this respect, the two neighboring countries, Germany and Switzerland, are exceptional cases. In both countries, there exists a long‐standing and largely uncontested legal prohibition of euthanasia, but only minimal state regulation concerning …
Philosophy (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Ethics in medical practice (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works)