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Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn

 

+49 228 73 66100

 

lifeethics@uni-bonn.de

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Research Area Economization

Dr.
Sebastian Müller

Biography

Sebastian Müller studied philosophy, mathematics, and history at the University of Mannheim. While working on his PhD he was a research associate at the Institute for Practical Philosophy, as well as research associate at the institute for Marketing at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. After his PhD in 2020 he joined the cologne center for ethics, rights, economics, and social sciences in health at cologne university and managed the ViCon project. Since 2022 he is a senior researcher at the center for life ethics and the Heinrich Herz Chair of Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen at the University of Bonn and the head of the research department economisation. Overall Sebastian Müller is interested in philosophy of economics, ethics, social ontology, and Public Health Ethics.

Contact

sebastian_mueller@uni-bonn.de
+49 228 73 66206

Location

Center for Life Ethics

Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7

53113 Bonn

Vita

Academic Backround

2015 - 2020

Ph.D. student in philosophy at Kiel University. The thesis “Consumption and Role Responsibility” is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink.

 

2009 – 2015 

State examination in philosophy, mathematics, and history at Manheim University

Professional Career

Since 2022

Senior researcher at the Center for Life Ethics at the Bonn University, head of the research department of economisation, and researcher in the ViCon project.

 

Since 2021

Application development and consulting for the BMJV funded project NakosiR (Nachhaltige Konsumstile in prototypischen sozialen Rollen-Überschneidungen) at Kiel University. The project investigate inter- and intra-role conflicts in sustainable consumption contexts.

 

2020 - 2022

Research Fellow with theBMBF funded project ViCon (Virtual assistant for informed consent) at ceres, University of Cologne.

 

2019 - 2020

Research associate with the project ROKOKO (Verbraucherrollen im kollaborativen Konsum) at Kiel University. The project investigates the attitudes and motives that promote or reduce collaborative consumption practices and outlines the social role of the collaborative consumer.

 

2018 - 2019

Advisor for the BMJV funded project ROKOKO at Kiel University.

 

2016 - 2019

Research associate with the BMBF funded project GESIOP (Gesundheitsmanagement aus inter-organisationaler Perspektive) at Kiel University. The project’s key objective is to develop ethical guidelines for occupational health activities and to give practical guidance on how to implement these guidelines in a company’s management structure.

 

2016

Consultant for consumer education at Verbraucherzentrale Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

Scholarships and Awards

2017
Emerging Scholar Award of the Society for Business Ethics in Atlanta (USA)

 

2016-2017
Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Business, Economics, and Ethics (TADA) Scholarship, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Beschorner and Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmidt.

Publications

Monographs

  • Müller S. (2022) Die Grenzen des Konsums. Eine Verantwortungstheorie der Konsumentenrolle. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

Editorial

  • Heidbrink L. und Müller S. (2020) Consumer Social Responsibility. Zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Konsumenten. Weimar: Metropolis.

Journal article

  • Müller S., Hoffmann N., Heidbrink L. und Hoffmann S. (2023) Collaborative Consumers are Ethical Consumers: Adapting the Defining Issues Test to Understand Ethical Reasoning in Collaborative Consumption Markets. Business & Society. doi,org/10.1177/00076503231157696 .
  • Müller S. (2022) Is there a civic duty to support medical AI development by sharing electronic health records? BMC Medical Ethics, 23. doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00871-z.
  • Geller S., Müller S., Schneider S., Woopen C., und Meister S. (2022) Value-Based Consent Model – A Design Thinking Approach for Enabling Informed Consent in Medical Data Research. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: S.81-92. doi.org/10.5220/0010828000003123
  • Müller S., Kuhn E., Buyx A., und Heidbrink L. (2021) Do Consumers Care about Work Health Issues? A Qualitative Study on Voluntary Occupational Health Activities and Consumer Social Responsibility. Business & Society Review. doi.org/10.1111/basr.12234
  • Kuhn, E., Müller, S., Teusch, C., Tanner, G., Schümann, M., Bamberg, E., Heidbrink, L. McLennan, S., and Buyx, A. (2021) Interfaces of Occupational Health Management and Corporate Social Responsibility: A multi-centre qualitative study from Germany. BMC Public Health. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11016-z
  • Hoffmann N. und Müller S. (2021) Der Defining-Issues-Tests (DIT) in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Konsumforschung. Die empirische Analyse von Konsumdilemmata, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Vol.50 (9): S.4-9.
  • Heidbrink L. und Müller S. (2021) Consumer Social Responsibility und Corporate Social Responsibility. In: Martin Gibson-Kunze, Christoph Golbeck, Achim Halfmann und Tong-Jin Smith (hgg.) Die große Transformation in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (CSR-Magazin 36), Berlin: UVG Verlag, S.54-60.
  • Kuhn E. Müller S., Heidbrink L. und Buyx A. (2020) The Ethics of Workplace Health Promotion. Public Health Ethics, 13(3): 234-246. doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaa007.
  • Kuhn E., Müller S., Heidbrink L. und Buyx A. (2020) Aufgeklärte Mitarbeiter*innen – Die informierte Einwilligung als ethische Orientierung in der Betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung (BGF). Das Gesundheitswesen. doi.org/10.1055/a-1205-0779
  • Müller S., Kuhn E. und Buyx A. (2017) Corporate Social Responsibility und Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement – Eine Betrachtung der Gemeinsamkeiten. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, Vol.18 (3): 307-327.
  • Heidbrink L. und Müller S. (2017) Die soziale Rolle des Konsumenten. Zum Verantwortungsrahmen von Verbrauchern. Amos International, Vol.11 (4): 3-9.
  • Müller S. (2017) Das deutsche Arzneimittelpatent – eine moralische Bewertung. Ethik in der Medizin, Vol.29 (4): 273-288.
  • Müller S. (2017) Die Verantwortung der Konsumentenrolle. Forum Wirtschaftsethik, Vol.3: 22-25.

Anthology and handbook articles

  • Müller S., Bröckerhoff P., Mehlich J. und Woopen C. (2023) Gesundheit. In: Petra Grimm, Kai E. Trost und Olliver Zöllner (hgg.): Handbuch der Digitalen Ethik. Baden-Baden: Nomos (im Erscheinen).
  • Müller S. und Hoffmann N. (2022) Konsumdilemmata und Rollenkonflikte in einer digitalen Welt, in: Michael Schlaile und Lea Stöber (hgg.) ConSR im digitalen Raum, Weimar: Metropolis, S.19-38.
  • Woopen C. und Müller S.  (2021) Selbst bestimmen: Die Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für die Selbstbestimmung am Beispiel des Gesundheitswesens, in: Chris Piallat (hgg.) Der Wert der Digitalisierung, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, S.123-146.
  • Tanner G., Kuhn E. und Müller S. (2020) Entwicklung eines erweiterten Tools zur Förderung gesunder Arbeit, in: Grit Tanner und Eva Bamberg (hgg.) Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement (er)weiter(t) denken. Handlungsempfehlungen aus dem Projekt GESIOP. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage: 21-28.
  • Müller S. (2020) Die soziale Verantwortung des Consumer Citizen, in: Heidbrink L. und Müller S. (hgg.) Consumer Social Responsibility. Zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Konsumenten. Weimar: Metropolis: 91-116.
  • Heidbrink L und Müller S. (2020) Consumer Social Responsibility in der Verbraucherpolitik, in: Heidbrink L. und Müller S. (hgg.) Consumer Social Responsibility. Zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Konsumenten. Weimar: Metropolis: 231-256.

Reviews and blog posts

Practice tools and reports

Lectures

  • 02.2023 - Conflicts and Participation in Sustainable Consumption Markets  (Workshop), Kiel, Deutschland. Nachhaltige Konsumstile in sozialen Rollen-Überschneidungen
  • 11.2021 - Consumer Social Responsibility im digitalen RaumHohenheim,Deutschland. Folgen kollaborative Konsumierende ethischen Handlungsmotiven? - Ein moralpsychologisches Experiment
  • 07.2021 - CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference 2021:The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceHamburg, Deutschland.Is There a Civic Duty to Support Biomedical AI Development by Sharing Personal Health Data?
  • 01.2021 - Keio-Cologne Lecture Series 2020, Köln, Deutschland. What to Let through my Skin – Current Approaches to Consent for Medical Treatment
  • 01.2020 - Vorstände-Workshop “Corporate Social Responsibility” des BKK DachverbandBerlin, Deutschland. Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement und CSR – Die philosophischen Grundlagen
  • 08.2019 - 6th Biennial ENSO Conference, Tampere, Finnland. The Ontology of Social Roles and the Consumer-Citizen hybrid
  • 08.2019 - Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference Boston, USA. Consumer and Citizen: Overlapping Social Roles and Responsibilities
  • 07.2019 - Digital behavioural technology, vulnerability and justice workshop München, Deutschland. Health Tracking Devices and Occupational Health Ethics
  • 05.2019 - Consumer Social Responsibility (workshop) Kiel, Deutschland. Die Rollenverantwortung der Konsumierenden am Beispiel des Consumer-Citizen
  • 09.2018 - European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH) Annual Conference 2018Lissabon, Portugal.Ethical Considerations on Health Tracking in the Occupational Health Context: An Evaluation
  • 09.2018 - Transparenz für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (Konferenz)Loccum, Deutschland. Information und Transparenz als notwendige Voraussetzung von Konsumentenverantwortung
  • 05.2018 - International Conference of Occupational Health 2018 (ICOH)Dublin, Irland. Talking about Health - how to Communicate Ethical Occupational Health Issues?
  • 10.2017 - V. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie Salzburg, Österreich. Gibt es eine Pflicht, die Präferenzen der Toten zu erfüllen?
  • 08.2017 - Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA. The Intrinsic Responsibility of the Consumer Role
  • 10.2016 - TransAtlantic Business Ethics Conference (TABEC), St. Gallen, Schweiz. How to Enable Responsible Consumption? (Poster-Session)

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