Christiane Schildknecht

Christiane Schildknecht (* 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Lucerne .

Life

Schildknecht studied philosophy, German literature and mathematics at the University of Konstanz and University College London . Her dissertation at the University of Konstanz dealt with philosophical forms of knowledge and their literary representation. After visiting professorships in the USA, New Zealand and Australia, she completed her habilitation in 1999 at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on the limits of discursive knowledge in the context of language, perception theory and consciousness theory .

From 2000 to 2007 she was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn . She has been a professor at the University of Lucerne since 2007. Her main research interests are in the fields of philosophy of mind , philosophy of language , epistemology and the relationship between philosophy and literature.

Publications

Monographs

• Sense and Self. Perspectives on Nonpropositionality . Paderborn, Mentis Verlag 2002.
• Aspects of the non-propositional . Bonn, Bouvier, 1999.
• Philosophical masks. Studies on the literary form of philosophy in Plato, Descartes, Wolff and Lichtenberg . Stuttgart, Metzler 1990, ISBN 978-3476007179 .

editor

• (with Dieter Teichert and Termilo van Zantwijk) (eds.): Genesis and validity . Paderborn, Mentis Verlag 2008.
• (with Dieter Teichert ) (eds.): Philosophy in literature . Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 1996.
• (with Gottfried Gabriel) (eds.). Literary forms of philosophy . Stuttgart, Metzler 1990.

Essays

• Clarity in philosophy and literature. Considerations following Peter Bieri . German Journal for Philosophy 5/2008, pp. 781-787.
• Views without concepts? On the non-conceptuality thesis of experience . German Journal for Philosophy 51 (2003), pp. 459-475.
• Knowledge That the Mind Seeks. The Epistemic Impact of Plato's Form of Discourse . Philosophy and Rhetoric 30 (1996), pp. 225-243.
• Experiments with Metaphors. On the Connection between Scientific Method and Literary Form in Francis Bacon . Synthesis philosophica 6 (1991), pp. 23-34 (repr. In: Z. Radman (ed.): From a Metaphorical Point of View. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor . Berlin, New York, de Gruyter 1995, pp. 27-50).
• with Catherine Wilson: The Cogito meant ´No more philosophy´: Valéry´s Descartes . History of European Ideas 9 (1988), pp. 47-62.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christiane Schildknecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christiane Schildknecht. University of Lucerne, accessed on May 31, 2012 .