Marcus Duwell
Dep. Filosofie en Religiewetenschap - Ethiek Instituut
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Marcus Düwell (born in 1962) holds a chair for philosophical ethics at Utrecht University. He is director of the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University and director of the Utrecht Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies. From 2005-2012 he was director of the Netherlands Research School for Practical Philosophy. Düwell studied Philosophy, German Literature and Theology in Tübingen and Munich. His PhD-thesis at the university of Tübingen was a philosophical investigation about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. From 1993-2001 he was academic coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen. His research interests include bioethics, ethics of climate change and general topics of moral and political philosophy, particular the ethics of human dignity and human rights.
Research Interest
Philosophical Ethics
Publications
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Duwell, M. & Bos, G.H. (2016). Human dignity and intergenerational human rights. In Gerhard Bos & Marcus Düwell (Eds.), Human Rights and Sustainability - Moral responsibilities for the future (pp. 69-81). London: Routledge.
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Duwell, M. (2017). Transcendental Arguments and Practical Self-Understanding - Gewirthian Perspectives. In Jens-Petre Brune, Robert Stern & Micha Werner (Eds.), Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory (pp. 161-177). Berlin: De Gruyter.
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During, D.K. & Duwell, M. (26-01-2017). Hope, Agency, and Aesthetic sensibility - a response to Beyleveld's account of Kantian Hope. In Patrick Capps & Shaun Pattinson (Eds.), Ethical Rationalism and the Law (pp. 55-72) (18 p.). London: Hart Publishing.
