Nils Fischer

Main fields of research

Islamic bioethics

Themes: Moral and legal status of the embryo, pregnancy and termination of pregnancy, human embryonic stemcell research, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, in-vitro-fertilisation and female circumcision

Medical ethics in the states of North Africa and the Middle East

Themes: Institutionalised ethics (national bioethics committees, research ethics committees and hospital ethics commitees), termination of pregnancy, health protection, organ donation and transplantation

Inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics

Themes: Communication and ethics of migration

Medieval Islamic-Arabic philosophy

Themes: Ethics, mysticism and metaphysics
Authors: Ibn Sina, Averroes, al-Ghazali und Ibn Tufail

Vita

Studies in philosophy, Islamic sciences, Arabic and Persian in Bonn, Tehran and Damascus. Employments at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Otto Warburg Senior Research Professur, 2011), at the Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik e. V. (IWE, Universität Bonn, 2003–2010) and at Universität Bonn (Lehr- und Forschungsbereich II, Philosophisches Seminar, 1998–2003). Since 2012 at Lehrstuhl für Ethik, Theorie und Geschichte der Medizin at Philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Vallendar (PTHV).