Andreas Speer

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Andreas Speer (born June 19, 1957 in Düsseldorf ) is a German philosopher and since 2004 professor of philosophy at the University of Cologne and director of the Thomas Institute .

Life

Andreas Speer studied philosophy , Catholic theology , philology , educational science and art history in Bonn . In 1986 he received his doctorate. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the understanding of truth and the philosophical way of thinking of Bonaventura .

Two years later, Speer went to the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne as a research assistant, where he was responsible for organizing the Cologne Medievalist Conference. Speer completed his habilitation in 1994 through attempts to justify a “scientia naturalis” in the 12th century. The habilitation thesis was awarded the Offermann Hergarten Prize in 1996.

Between 1995 and 2000 Speer was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation . During this time he held visiting lectureships at the University of Sofia , the Biblioteca Vaticana , the University of Notre Dame and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . His appointment as adjunct professor of philosophy in Cologne followed in 1998, and in 2000 he was appointed full professor at the University of Würzburg, where he held his inaugural lecture on May 4th of the same year on the subject of “Finite Wisdom - An Approach to Philosophy”. 2000 was an eventful year for Speer and ended with the function of spokesman for the “Engeren Kreis” of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil / AGPD) . Speer later held the Chair of Philosophy III at the University of Würzburg from 2001 to 2004, when he accepted the position of Director of the Thomas Institute and the associated Chair of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Cologne. In the course of this, he also became director of the Averroes latinus edition, which is still based at the Thomas Institute to this day. Another important event this year was the presidency of the Society for Philosophy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (GPMR) . In general, the years after 2000 were years of appointments and awards for Speer, which culminated in 2005 with the honoris causa doctorate of the “St. Kliment Ochridski ”University, Sofia / Bulgaria. In 2005 he was also appointed spokesman for the Center for Medieval Studies (ZfMs), which is also based at the University of Cologne, and a member of the extended board of the German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil).

In 2008, the artes research school was founded at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne, which was expanded to the artes Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne in 2012 as part of the third round of the Excellence Initiative and Speer continues to act as its spokesman to this day. The interdisciplinary graduate school is based on a concept of humanities beyond the dichotomy of humanities and cultural sciences on the one hand and natural sciences on the other.

In 2002 Speer was accepted as a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . Speer has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2013 .

Speer worked as an author on the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy .

Research priorities

Speer's research deals intensively with the philosophy of the people of the 13th century. An interdisciplinary working group led by Speer and the architectural historian Günther Binding dealt with this topic for over ten years . Numerous publications emerged from this, including the critical edition of the works of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis .

In addition to the history of medieval philosophy, he deals with questions of metaphysics and epistemology . Even natural philosophy , aesthetics and the relationship between philosophy and wisdom are his interests. Some monographs, anthologies and essays by Speer are considered standard works on these topics in specialist circles.

Further research areas:

  • History and systematics of philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Middle Ages
  • Systematics and history of epistemology and philosophy of science
  • Natural philosophy and science in the Middle Ages
  • Philosophy and wisdom
  • The theological discourse at the intersection of philosophy and religion
  • Aesthetics and Art Theory: Middle Ages and the Present
  • On the relationship between anthropology and ethics

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV at the University of Cologne ( Memento from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Artes Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. In: http://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/14072.html . Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Register of authors. (Register) (No longer available online.) In: Historical dictionary of philosophy. P. 71 f. , archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; accessed on October 29, 2014 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Speer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosophy professor; Director of the Thomas Institute
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf