Albert Newen

Albert Newen (born 1964 in Neuerburg ) is a German philosopher.

Life

Albert Newen studied philosophy, psychology and history from 1985 to 1990 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the University of Bielefeld , where he wrote his dissertation Context, Reference and Meaning in 1994 . A theory of meaning of singular terms with Eike von Savigny and Wolfgang Spohn was doctorated. From 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation in 2001 with theories of self-confidence . In 2002/03 he was a fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg . In 2003 he was appointed professor for philosophy with a focus on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind at the University of Tübingen . Since 2007 he has been teaching philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum .

He is married to the physicist Martina Havenith-Newen , who teaches in Bochum .

Fonts (selection)

• Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction . Munich: CHBeck, 2013
• Albert Newen, Markus A. Schrenk: Introduction to the philosophy of language . Darmstadt: WBG, 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-15459-3
• Thomas Müller, Albert Newen (ed.): Logic, concepts, principles of action . Paderborn: Mentis 2007
• Introductory analytical philosophy . Hamburg: Junius, 2005
• Albert Newen, Eike von Savigny: Analytical Philosophy: An Introduction . Munich: Fink, 1996
• Context, reference and meaning: a theory of meaning of singular terms . Paderborn: Schöningh, 1996 Zugl .: Bielefeld, Univ., Chang. Diss., 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Newen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Albert Newen in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Albert Newen at perlentaucher.de
• Albert Newen , curriculum vita at Ruhr-Universität
• Albert Newen , at the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martina Havenith-Newen , at the University of Bochum