The aim of the seminar is to make the participants familiar with the most important questions, positions and arguments in the bioethical debate concerning the areas mentioned in the description.

In this seminar, differences and interrelations between explanations and justifications are to be discussed in the context of a systematic investigation into the different forms or types of explanations and justifications. In doing so, special attention will be paid to the question of what a scientific explanation is (resp. can be).