englischNew plant breeding techniques such as CRISPR/Cas have the potential to improve sustainability in agriculture. Genome editing techniques can increase yields while reducing the use of pesticides. Researchers around the world are working on improving the nutritional value of plants. However, [...]

Digitalisierung wird im vorliegenden Band aus der Theorieperspektive der Philosophischen Anthropologie Plessners betrachtet. Damit geht es im Kern darum, ob und inwieweit sich das Verhältnis von Mensch und Welt im Zeichen von Digitalisierung verändert. Die Verwendung unterschiedlicher [...]

englischSeldom has a papal encyclical received as much attention and enjoyed as much popularity as Pope Francis’s Laudato si’ on caring for our common home. Members of the Center of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster have accepted Pope Francis’s invitation to [...]

englisch The Chicago critics, a group of academics that gathered around Ronald S. Crane in the early 1930s, tackled questions that are still relevant today: What is more important — humanistic general education or vocational specialisation? How should a university define its function in the context [...]

englischThe time of theories on modernity of a philosophical and sociological nature has not yet expired by any means, as is sometimes presumed. On the contrary, our current era not only seems to almost need such theories but also to demand them. We are engaged in an ever-present search for a way of [...]

englischUsing the example of the dignity of people with dementia as its basis, this book addresses the foundations of care ethics.

In medical ethics, dignity is often equated with ‘respect for autonomy’. As a result, people with dementia, who progressively lose the ability to make their own [...]