
Michael Schmidt, M.A.
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
- Room: 206
- Phone: +49 721 608-23518
- michael schmidt ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Current positions
- Member of scientific staff at Research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
Fields of work
- Transport justice and mobility futures
- Methodology (reflective equilibrium)
- Epistemology (understanding as epistemic concept)
- Political Philosophy (John Rawls, public reason, human rights, utopianism)
Professional background
seit 2020 | Member of scientific staff at ITAS |
2018 | Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, KIT |
2017 - 2018 | Scientific staff, Department für Philosophie, KIT |
2015 - 2017 | Research assistant, Department für Philosophie, KIT |
2014 - 2020 | Doctoral student, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, KIT |
2010 - 2012 | Mentor for Europäische Kultur und Ideengeschichte, KIT |
Selected publications
Schmidt, M.
Sidgwick, Reflective Equilibrium and the Triviality Charge, in: Michael Schefczyk / Christoph Schmidt-Petri (eds), Proceedings Volume(s) of ISUS 2018, (im Erscheinen).
Schmidt, M.
Utopische Wirklichkeit. Ein Versuch über das Verhältnis der ‘Utopie‘ zur ‚virtuellen Welt‘, in: Ulrich Gehmann (Hrsg.), Virtuelle und ideale Welten, Karlsruhe 2012, 47-64. Teil von doi:10.5445/KSP/1000025299
Schmidt, M.; Wendland M. (Hrsg.)
Der wunderbare florentinische Geist. Einblicke in die Kultur und Ideengeschichte des Rinascimento. Mit einer Einleitung von Ulrich Arnswald und einem Nachwort von Hans-Peter Schütt, Karlsruhe 2011. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000023908
Publications
Autonomous Driving and Public Reason: a Rawlsian Approach
2021. Philosophy & technology, 34, 1475–1499. doi:10.1007/s13347-021-00468-1
Sidgwick, Reflective Equilibrium and the Triviality Charge
2021. Utility, Progress, and Technology: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies Ed.: M. Schefczyk, Michael [Hrsg.]; C. Schmidt-Petri, 247–258, KIT Scientific Publishing
Autonomous Driving and Public Reason: A Rawlsian Approach
2021. CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference: The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, (2021), Online, July 5–9, 2021
Autonomous Driving and Public Reason: A Rawlsian Approach
2021. Embedding AI in Society online symposium - part of the R. L. Rabb Science and Society Symposium (2021), Online, February 18–19, 2021
Understanding transport systems: Different perspectives on the Cologne Stadtbahn
2021. 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology: Technological Imaginaries (SPT 2021), Online, June 28–30, 2021
Reflective equilibrium is enough: Against the need for pre-selecting “considered judgments”
2021, June 11. 11th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, organized by CEPS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (2021), Online, June 9–11, 2021
Highway Blues? Autonomous Driving, Hitchhiking & The Duty to Rescue
2021. Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology (BudPT 2021), Budapest, Hungary, December 9–10, 2021