6/3/2017: Beate Roessler on Privacy as a Human Right

Published: March 23, 2017, 2:47 p.m.

Beate Roessler is Professor of Ethics and its History at the University of Amsterdam; from 2003 to 2010 she also taught as Socrates-Professor for the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University. She formerly taught philosophy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Bremen, Germany. In 2003/4 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin; she is a co-editor of the European Journal of Philosophy. Her publications include The Value of Privacy, Polity Press 2005; Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (ed. with D.Mokrosinska), Cambridge UP 2015; Von Person zu Person. Zur Moralität persönlicher Beziehungen, (ed. with A. Honneth, Frankfurt 2008). Her current research focuses on problems in individual autonomy.

This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Roessler's talk - 'Privacy as a Human Right' - at the Aristotelian Society on 6 March 2017. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.