Professor Dr. Kurt-Otto Bayertz

Current affiliations

  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Ethics
  • Anthropology
  • Political Philosophy

Academic Education

1988Habilitation, University of Hamburg
1975 - 1977Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Bremen
1974Masters in Philosophy, University of Düsseldorf
1969 - 1974Study of Philosophy, Social Sciences and German Literature at the Universities of Frankfurt and Düsseldorf

Work Experience

since 2009Member of the Research College "Theoretische Grundfragen der Normenbegründung in Medizinethik und Biopolitik", WWU Münster
since 1993Professor for Applied Philosophy, WWU Münster
1992 - 1993Professor for Philosophy, University of Ulm
1990 - 1992Head of the Department of Technology Assessment at the Center for Technology Transfer in Biomedicine, Bad Oeynhausen
1983 - 1990Assistant at the Center for Science Studies, University of Bielefeld
1979 - 1982Research Assistant, University of Bremen

Appointments

1993Offer to a Professorship for praktische Philosophie, Dresden University of Technology (rejected)

Publications

Bayertz, Kurt (2020)
In: Studia Philosophica, 79
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Bayertz Kurt (2020)
In: Bublitz Jan Christoph, Bung Jochen, Grünewald Anette, Magnus Dorothea, Putzke Holm, Scheinfeld Jörg (eds.), Recht – Philosophie – Literatur. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Bayertz Kurt (2020)
In: Bayertz Kurt, Kompa Nikola, Strobach Niko (eds.), Das Projekt einer ‚Idéologie‘. Destutt de Tracy: Ideenlehre als Wissenschaftsprogramm der Spätaufklärung.. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Bayertz Kurt, Kompa Nikola, Strobach Niko (eds.) (2020)
Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Bayertz K. (2019)
In: Bayertz K., Roughley N. (eds.), The Normative Animal.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2014 - 30/09/2018 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Centres for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Centres for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/10/2009 - 31/03/2010
Type of project: Own resources project
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Prizes

Tractatus-Essay Award 2013
Awarded by: Philosophicum Lech
Award given to: Bayertz, Kurt
Announced at: 15/09/2013 | Date of awarding: 27/09/2013
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Fellowship at HWK - society
Awarded by: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst
Award given to: Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Date of awarding: 01/01/2009
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Fellowship
Awarded by: Istituto per le Scienze Religiose
Award given to: Bayertz, Kurt
Announced at: 01/01/2006
Type of distinction: Scholarship
Opus Magnum
Awarded by: VolkswagenStiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Award given to: Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Announced at: 01/01/2006
Type of distinction: Scholarship

Doctorates

[Working title] Marx´ Kategorie der Totalität
Candidate: Li, Shijie | Supervisors: Quante, Michael; Bayertz, Kurt-Otto | Reviewers: Quante, Michael; Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Period of time: 01/10/2019 - 08/11/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Die kleine Welt – Hermann Lotzes „Mikrokosmos“: Die Anfänge der Philosophie des Geistes im Kontext des Materialismusstreits
Candidate: Baab, Florian | Supervisors: Scholz, Oliver R.; Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Period of time: until 07/03/2018
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Making sense of well-being in biomedical ethics
Candidate: Stroop, Barbara | Supervisors: Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Period of time: 01/01/2010 - 08/10/2013
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Enhancement. Die Legitimität von Eingriffen am gesunden menschlichen Körper.
Candidate: Shim, Ji-Won | Supervisors: Bayertz, Kurt
Period of time: 01/01/2008 - 10/10/2012
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Antike philosophische "ars moriendi" und ihre Gegenwart in der Hospizpraxis
Candidate: Stähli, Andreas | Supervisors: Bayertz, Kurt-Otto
Period of time: 01/04/2007 - 09/11/2009
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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