Andreas Kemmerling

Andreas Kemmerling (born February 21, 1950 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German philosopher . It can be assigned to analytical philosophy .

Life

Andreas Kemmerling was born in Bad Homburg in 1950, studied philosophy in Marburg, Frankfurt and Munich from 1968 and received his doctorate in 1976 at the LMU. After his habilitation at the University of Bielefeld (1981) and a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (1982), he was Professor of Analytical Philosophy at the LMU in Munich from 1983 to 1999 and Professor of Philosophy at the from 1999 to 2018 University of Heidelberg. In 2011 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

research

His main research interests are the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and epistemology, as well as the development of representationalist conceptions of the mind since early modern times.

Works

• What Grice means by "mine" - a reconstruction of Grice's analysis of rational communication, research reports of the IPK of the University of Munich 8, 1977, 121–166.
• Mental representations, Kognitionswissenschaft 1 (1991), 47-57.
• Descartes on consciousness, in Studia Philosophica 55 (1996), Yearbook of the Swiss Philosophical Society, 85-114.
• On the so-called naturalization of intentionality, in: A. Burri (Ed.), Language and Thinking, Berlin / New York 1997, 237–258 (an earlier version appeared in: Wittgenstein Studies 1997).
• Gricy Actions, in: G. Cosenza (ed.), Paul Grice's Heritage, Brepols 2001, 69-95.
• The first modern conception of mental representation, in: U. Meixner / A. Newen (Ed.), Soul, Thinking and Consciousness - On the Philosophy of Spirit from Plato to Husserl, Berlin / New York 2003, 153 - 196.
• Ideas of the I - Studies on Descartes' Philosophy, Frankfurt a. M. ²2005.
• Believe. Essay on a Concept, Frankfurt a. M. 2017.

Web links

• Homepage at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg