Konrad Ott

Konrad Ott (born May 20, 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics. Ott is currently Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. From 1997 to 2012 Ott was professor for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald.

Bibliography

In German:

• Ökologie und Ethik: Ein Versuch praktischer Philosophie. Tübingen 1993
• Vom Begründen zum Handeln: Aufsätze zur angewandten Ethik. Tübingen 1996
• Ipso facto: Zur ethischen Begründung normativer Implikate wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Ethik in der Informatik. Tübingen 1999 (as co-editor)
• Spektrum der Umweltethik. Marburg 2000 (as co-editor)
• Moralbegründungen zur Einführung. Hamburg 2001; Zweite Auflage 2005
• Theorie und Praxis starker Nachhaltigkeit. Marburg 2004; Zweite Auflage 2008 (as co-author)
• Umweltethik zur Einführung. Hamburg 2010

In English:

• The Case for Strong Sustainability
• Building a 'theory of sustainable development': two salient conceptions within the German discourse (as co-author)
• On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability

External links

• Universität Greifswald - Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie: Professur für Umweltethik Professorship for Environmental Ethics at the University of Greifswald, Germany
• International Masters Programme "Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation"