Anna Rifat Klassen, M.A.
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
- Room: 210 in Douglasstr. 24
- Phone: +49 721 608-22129
- anna klassen ∂ kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Fields of work
- Philosophy of the life sciences
- Feminist criticism of science
- History of science in the 20th century
Professional background
since 2024 | Member of scientific staff at ITAS |
2019 - 2023 | Member of scientific staff and PhD researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Faculty of Life Sciences, Chair of History and Philosophy of Science Dissertation: “Von Biotechnik zu Bioethik. Die Debatten über die Regulation von Gentechnologie in der Bundesrepublik der 1970er und 1980er Jahre” (From Biotechnology to Bioethics. Debating the regulation of genetic engineering in West Germany in the 1970ies and 1980ies) |
2018 - 2019 | Member of scientific staff and PhD researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
2013 - 2017 | Master of Arts in Philosophy of Forms of Knowledge at the University of Kassel |
2009 - 2013 | Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (major) and German Literature (minor) at the University of Kassel |
Selected publications
Klassen, A.
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2021
von Schwerin, A; Klassen, A.; Brandt, C.
Gentechnik und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Ein Streitfall zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit, 1975-1999. Berlin: Forschungsprogramm Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 2023