Interdisciplinary Seminars in Politics and Philosophy: Collective Decisions under Normative Uncertainty
Institution
Business, Economics, and Social Sciences
Department
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Teaching staff
Prof. Dr. Peter Niesen, Prof. Dr. Moritz Schulz
SDG-topic cluster
Nature conservation and sustainable use of resources
Comments/contents
This seminar deals with (collective as well as individual) decision making under normative uncertainty from the perspective of philosophy and political theory. What should one do if one does not know what is ethically right? As an important application, we focus on animal ethics and animal politics (how should we treat animals if we are individually uncertain or collectively disagree on their moral status?). In the seminar, we look at groundwork on human-animal relations, decisions under normative uncertainty and issues of how to deal with normative uncertainty in a democratic society.
Semester
SoSe 19
Center for a Sustainable University
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg
www.nachhaltige.uni-hamburg.de