Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. theol. Alexander Filipović
Professorship for Social Ethics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology
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Curriculum vitae:
Born 1975 in Bremen
1995-2000 Studied Catholic Theology (M.A.), Communication Science and German Studies at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg
2000-2002 Doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
2002-2006 Research assistant (pre-doc) at the Chair of Christian Social Teaching at the University of Bamberg
2006-2009 Research assistant (post-doc) at the Chair of Christian Social Teaching at the University of Bamberg
2009-2013 Research assistant (post-doc) at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
2012 Habilitation (venia legendi for the subject of Christian Social Ethics) by the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Münster
2013-2021 Professor of Media Ethics at the Munich School of Philosophy
2017-2021 Head of the zem::dg - Center for Ethics of Media and the Digital Society (together with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen)
2018-2020 Expert member of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Since February 2021 Professor of Social Ethics at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Vienna
Research areas:
*Media ethics, ethics of public communication
*Technology ethics/digital ethics
*Political ethics
*Philosophical pragmatism
"Social ethics combines practical-philosophical and theological-ethical basic research with concrete proposals for shaping society. For example, I would like to improve the level of discourse in society through constructive criticism of media communication." (Alexander Filipović)