Beate Roessler (born 1958 in Heidelberg) is a German philosopher and researcher who is a Professor of Ethics at the University of Amsterdam.[1]

Biography edit

Roessler studied philosophy in several German and English cities, among them London, Oxford, and Berlin. Her Ph.D. was completed in 1988 at the Free University of Berlin. Roessler’s habilitation developed a theory of the value of privacy, and was finalized in 2001 at the University of Bremen.[1]

Roessler was the Socrates Professor of the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University between 2003 and 2010. Roessler has held various shorter-term research and teaching positions; she was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in 2003 and 2004. Roessler was a visiting scholar at Macquarie University, Sydney, the Law School at the University of Melbourne, and at New York University.[1] In 2023, she will be teaching as a Bok Fellow at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Beate Roessler is a founding member of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research and Platform for the Ethics and Politics of Technology. Roessler is a co-editor of the European Journal of Philosophy[3] and the Privacy Studies Journal.[4] She is part of the project Political Microtargeting: Safeguarding Public Values[5] and the consortium of the gravitation program Public Values in the Algorithmic Society.[6] Roessler's board memberships also include the editorial board of the book series Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield) and the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt/Germany.[7]

Roessler is a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[8] a member of the Academia Europaea[9] and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10]

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Books edit

  • Die Theorie des Verstehens in Sprachanalyse und Hermeneutik, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot 1990
  • Der Wert des Privaten, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001; English translation: The Value of Privacy, Polity Press, 2005
  • Autonomie. Ein Versuch über das gelungene Leben, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017; Dutch translation: Autonomie. Een essay over het vervulde leven, Boom 2018;  English translation: Autonomy: An Essay on the Life Well-Lived, Polity Press, 2021

Edited books edit

  • Forthcoming: On Being Human in the Digital World, edited with Valerie Steeves (Ottawa), Cambridge University Press, 2024 (with contributions by H. Nissenbaum, F. Pasquale, J. Millar, J. Cohen and others)
  • Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited with Dorota Mokrosinska, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
  • Privacies. Philosophical Evaluations, Stanford University Press, 2004
  • Autonomy. Problems and Limits (Special Issue of the Philosophical Explorations), Vol V, Nr. 3 October 2002

Selected articles edit

Selected articles in popular media edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2023-05-03). "Prof. dr. B. (Beate) Roessler". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  2. ^ "Fall 2023 - Penn Law School". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  3. ^ "Editorial Board". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  4. ^ "Editorial Team | Privacy Studies Journal". tidsskrift.dk. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  5. ^ "Political Microtargeting: Safeguarding public values – ICDS". Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  6. ^ "Team | AlgoSoc". 2turvenhoog (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  7. ^ "Commitees - Institut für Sozialforschung". www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  8. ^ "Members: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AdW)". adw-goe.de. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  9. ^ "Academy of Europe: User". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  10. ^ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.

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