Michael Quante is professor for practical philosophy at the University of Munster and there since 2016 vice rector for international affairs, transfer and sustainability. His research is focussing on biomedical ethics.
Professor Michael Quante
Universität Münster / Peter Wattendorf
Quante studied German and Philosophy. Following his PhD he habilitated in Philosophy. In his habilitation he was dealing with the conception of personal identity within the question of biomedical ethics, especially at the beginning and end of life. Since 2009 Michael Quante is full professor for practical philosophy at the University of Munster and he was member of the DFG-Kolleg-research group “Basic theoretical questions of justifying norms in medical ethics and biopolitics” from 2010 to 2019. Since October 2016 he is vice-rector for Internationalization, Knowledge Transfer and Sustainability and since 2019 he is head of the international Marx-Engels-foundation.
His work was translated in more than 10 languages. He is member of the Berlin-Brandenburg academy of science and the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts and received the honorary doctorate by the University of Debrecen, Hungary and 2017 by the University Tbilisi, Georgia.
Further information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/mitglieder/quante/quante.html