Dr. Tatjana Višak

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Tatjana Višak
16.01. 2014
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UNIVERSITY:
Saarland University
Department of Philosophy
Postbox 151150
66041 Saarbrücken
Building C5.2, Room 2.14
Tel.: (0681) 302 2351
E-mail: tatjana.visak@uni-saarland.de
Tel.: 06835-6017991
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Tatjana.visak@gmail.com
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www.tatjanavisak.com
PERSONAL DATA:
Date of birth: 12.12. 74
Place of birth: Gießen, Germany
Nationality: German
Marital status: married, two children
EDUCATION
September 1993 - June 1994
Institut Parisien, France
French Language, Philosophy and Art
September 1994 - April 2000
Leiden University, The
Netherlands
MSc Political Sciences with focus on
Political Philosophy
July 1993
Theo-Koch Schule
Grünberg, Germany
Abitur (High School Diploma)
September 2013 - present
Mannheim University,
Germany
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc)
Prof. Gesang, Philosophy and Business
Ethics
July 2013 - present
Saarland University,
Germany
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc)
Prof. Fehige/ Wessels, Practical Philosophy
July 2012 – July 2013
Monash University,
Australia
Lecturer (B), Centre for Human Bioethics
August 2011 – August 2012
Utrecht University, the
Netherlands
Postdoc, Ethics Institute
January 2011 – January 2012
Leiden University, the
Lecturer, Philosophy Department
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1 Netherlands
January 2011 – Aug. 2011
International School of
Philosophy, the
Netherlands
Program organizer
Sept. 2005 – Dec. 2010
Utrecht University, the
Netherlands
Junior researcher/ lecturer, Ethics Institute
(PhD May 2011)
Aug. 2000 – Sept. 2005
Utrecht University, the
Netherlands
Junior researcher/ lecturer, Ethics Institute
Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2003
Erasmus University, the
Netherlands
Researcher, Ethics Department of the
Erasmus Medical Center
Aug. 1999 – Aug. 2000
Leiden University, the
Netherlands
Junior researcher (bursary), Department of
Political Sciences
Sept. 1997 – Sept. 1998
Leiden University, the
Netherlands
Student-Assistant, Center for
Environmental Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(2013). Killing Happy Animals. Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics. Palgrave MacMillan.
Edited volumes
(forthcoming). Co-edited with Robert Garner, The Ethics of Killing Animals. Oxford University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
(2013). Co-authored with J. Balcombe. “The Applicability of the Self-fulfillment Account of Welfare to
Non-human Animals, Babies and Mentally Disabled Humans”, in: Philosophy and Public Policy, 31, 2.
(2013). “Kommentar zu Wessels Glück-Wunsch Ethik: Probleme bezüglich Implikationen und
Fundierung, und ein Verbesserungsvorschlag” (Comment on Wessel’s Happiness-Desire Ethics:
Problems Regarding its Implications and Foundations and a Suggestion for Improvement), in: Zeitschrift
für philosophische Forschung (Journal of Philosophical Enquiry), 2.
(2013). Co-authored with J. Leuven. “Ryder’s Painism and his Criticism of Utilitarianism”, in: Journal of
Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 26, 2.
(2006). Co-authored with F.L.B. Meijboom and F.W.A. Brom. “From Trust to Trustworthiness: Why
Information is Not Enough in the Food Sector”, in: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics,
19(5), 427-442.
(2004). Co-authored with L.W. Kranenburg, W. Weimar, W. Zuidema, M. de Klerk, M. Hilhorst, J.
Passchier, J.N. Ijzermans, J.J. Busschbach. “Starting a Crossover Kidney Transplantation Program in the
2 Netherlands: Ethical and Psychological Considerations”, in: Transplantation, 2004 Jul 27; 78 (2): 194-7.
Book chapters
(forthcoming). “Introduction”, in: Visak, T., Garner, R. (eds.), The Ethics of Killing Animals. Oxford
University Press.
(forthcoming). “Are Animals Replaceable?”, in: Visak, T., Garner, R. (eds.), The Ethics of Killing
Animals. Oxford University Press.
(forthcoming 2014). “Environmental Ethics”, in: Vedwan, N. (ed.) An Integrated Approach to
Environmental Management, Wiley.
(2012). “Daniel Haybron’s Theory of Welfare and its Implications for Animal Welfare Assessment”, in:
Potthast, T. (ed.), Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and
Food Production, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.
(2010). “Do Animals Count for Less?”, in: Romeo Casabona, C.M., Escajedo, L, Emaldi, A. (eds.),
Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.
(2009). “Can Killing be Justified? A Dismissal of the Replaceability Argument”, in: Millar, K., Hobson
West, P., Nerlich, B. (eds.), Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons, Wageningen Academic
Publishers, Wageningen.
(2007). Co-authored with F.W.A. Brom and F. Meijboom. “Food, Citizens and Market. The Quest for
Responsible Consuming”, in: Frewer, L., Van Trijp, H. (eds.), Understanding Consumers of Food
Products, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge.
(2006). “How Animal-friendly Should Our Agricultural Practice Become?”, in: Kaiser, M, &Lien, M.E.
(eds.). Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.
(2005). Co-authored with F.W.A. Brom and F.L.B. Meijboom. “Food, Citizens and Market. The Quest
for Responsible Consuming”. In: Pothast, T., Baumgartner, C. en Engels, E-M (eds.) Die Richtigen Masse
für die Nahrung. Biotechnologie, Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittel in Ethischer Perspektive. Tübingen/
Basel, Francke Verlag, 115-132.
(2003). “The Moral Relevance of Naturalness”, in: Drees, W.B. (ed.), Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion,
Science and Value, Routledge, London.
(2003). “The Normative Relevance of Disputes in Primatology”, in: Drees, W.B. (ed.), Is Nature Ever
Evil? Religion, Science and Value, Routledge, London.
Book reviews
(forthcoming 2014). Review: Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the twenty-first Century, second
edition. By Robin Attfield, in: Ethical Perspectives.
(forthcoming 2014). Review: Death. By Shelly Kagan, in: Ethical Perspectives.
(2012). Review: Zoopolis. A Political Theory of Animal Rights. By Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka,
in: Philosophical Quarterly.
(2005). Review: Umweltethik - Umwelthandeln. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung des Motivationsproblems. By
Christoph Baumgartner, in: Ethical Perspectives.
3 BERUFUNGSVERFAHREN
January 16, 2014: Listenplatz 3, W1 Professur “Politische Philosophie und Umweltethik”, Humboldt
University Berlin
AWARDS
Vonne Lund Junior Researcher Prize 2010, from the European Society of Agriculture and Food Ethics.
1-year bursary at Leiden University for research and for developing a PhD proposal.
Master thesis prize of the Leiden University Department of Political Sciences for “Mensethiek, Dierethiek
Natuurethiek: Op Zoek naar een Morele Code voor onze Omgang met Dieren en de Rest van de Natuur”
(Human Ethics, Animal Ethics, Nature Ethics, Searching for a Moral Code for Dealing with Animals and
the Rest of Nature), April 1999.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Saarland University, Germany
Seminar “Environmental Ethics”, planned for Summer 2014 (in German)
Seminar “Harm of Death” (“Was macht den Tod schlecht für uns?”), Winter 2013 (in German).
Mannheim University, Germany
Seminar “Consequentialism”, planned for Summer 2014 (in English)
Seminar “Harm of Death” (“Was macht den Tod schlecht für uns?”), Fall 2013 (in German).
Monash University, Australia
Postgraduate course Clinical Ethics, Summer 2012 (in English).
Postgraduate course Health Care Ethics, Fall 2012 (in English).
Undergraduate course “Biotechnology, Justice and the Law”, Summer 2012 (in English).
Undergraduate course “The Human Body and the International Market Place”, Fall 2012 (in English).
Leiden University, the Netherlands
BA3/ MA course “Contemporary Utilitarianism”, Summer 2011 (in English).
BA course “Ethics”, Fall 2011 (in English).
BA course “Environment and Development I-III”, Fall 1997, Summer 1998 (in Dutch)
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
BA course “Ethics” (for Philosophy students), Summer 2009 (in Dutch)
BA course “Medical Humanities” (for Medical Students), Summer 2007 and 2008 (in Dutch).
BA/ MA Course “Justice” (for Medical Students), Fall 2006 (in Dutch)
4 Various introductory ethics classes for students of various programs (bio-medical students, biology
students and pharmacology students), 2005-2010 (in Dutch).
INVITED LECTURES (selection)
Studium Generale, Leiden University, the Netherlands (March 3, 2011) “Morele plichten ten aanzien van
dieren. Een utilistisch perspectief” (“Moral duties towards animals. A utilitarian perspective”)
CAPPE seminar, Melbourne University, Australia (October 31, 2012) “Welfare as self-fulfillment: the
implications of Haybron's account for welfare assessment and ethics”
CAPPE seminar, Melbourne University, Australia (May 23, 2013) “Counting welfare: whose and how?”
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, (December 11, 2013) “Should I leave my gas-guzzler in the
garage? The ethics of little or no effects”
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (selection)
Presented papers at various international conferences, such as the World Congress of Bioethics in Croatia
and in Rotterdam, the Minding Animals Conference in Australia and in the Netherlands, and at
conferences of the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics in various European countries, as
well as at the 2013 Societas Ethica conference on climate ethics in the Netherlands.
ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCE
Minding Animals Conference 2012: a large international conference on the human-animal relationship,
sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and the EU.
Several public stakeholder discussions on genetic modification of animals at the request of the Dutch
Ministry of Agriculture in 2005.
LANGUAGES
German (native), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), French (good)
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