Benedict Paul Gocks

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Benedikt Paul Gätze (2019)

Benedikt Paul Göck (born May 1, 1981 in Steinfurt-Borghorst ) is a German philosopher and theologian .

He is university professor for the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum and an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford , UK.

His research covers both theoretical and practical and historical philosophy and can be divided into three main areas: philosophy of science and metaphysics , transhumanism and the ethics of digitization , Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) and German idealism .

biography

After studying philosophy , Catholic theology and religious studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , Göcke received his doctorate there in 2011 under Klaus Müller with a thesis on the panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause at the Catholic theological faculty. Another doctorate followed in 2013 at the University of Philosophy in Munich . The work was supervised by Godehard Brüntrup and published under the title "A Theory of the Absolute" by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. From 2008 to 2012 Göcke was also a research fellow in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at Klaus Müller and from 2010 to 2013 Junior Research Fellow for Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University. From 2012 to 2015, Gätze was a postdoctoral fellow at the chair for philosophical-theological borderline questions with Christian Tapp at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). Since 2016 he has been the group leader of the Emmy Noether project Theology as Science! Naturalism and philosophy of science act as challenges for Catholic theology . After a junior professorship (2017-2019), Gätze has been professor for philosophy of religion and philosophy of science since 2019. He has been an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University since 2017.

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In the field of philosophy of science and metaphysics , Göcke's research focuses in particular on questions relating to the epistemological positioning of theology. Goecke's work deals with basic research on the theory of science, which tries to specify the concept of the scientific nature of human activities in order to sound out general structural features of research in the humanities and natural sciences and to develop a demarcation criterion to differentiate between sciences and pseudo-sciences. In addition, the specific conditions of denominational and scientific theology are examined on the basis of the theoretical foundations . The naturalistic and atheistic objections to the scientific nature of theology form a special focus.

In the field of transhumanism and the ethics of digitization , Göckes research concentrates on the one hand on analyzing the philosophical agenda of transhumanism and critically in dialogue with the neurosciences and the arguments against and for a cybernetic change in the biological nature of humans of philosophy. On the other hand, Gätze researches the religiously coded assumptions of the transhumanist agenda and its promises of salvation and examines to what extent elements of transhumanist thought can be supported from a Christian perspective, for example in the sense of process theology .

From a historical point of view, Göcke deals in particular with the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), which he regards in the context of “classical German philosophy”. Göck wants to show that Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's thinking was wrongly forgotten. From Goecke's point of view, Krause left behind the first consistently panentheistic system of philosophy, which as the philosophy of solitude of God and the world represents an all-encompassing metaphysical theory that unites all essential areas of philosophical thought. A serious examination of Krause's work shows that, thanks to its content orientation and argumentative safeguarding, it can be directly linked to numerous current discussions, such as in sustainability ethics , religious philosophy , anthropology and political philosophy .

Awards

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Göck, Bendedikt Paul, The Panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832). From Transcendental Philosophy to Metaphysics . Oxford, Berlin: Peter Lang. 2018. ISBN 9783631746905
  • Göck, Bendedikt Paul, A Theory of the Absolute. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion . Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. ISBN 9781137412812
  • Goets, Bendedikt Paul, Everything in God? On the topicality of the panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause . Friedrich blows. 2012. ISBN 9783791724300

Editorships

  • Benedikt Paul Göck (ed.): The scientific nature of theology. Volume 1: Historical and Systematic Perspectives . (Studies in theology, ethics and philosophy). Münster: Aschendorff. 2018. ISBN 9783402119136
  • Benedikt Paul Göck & Lukas Ohler (eds.): Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie. Volume 2: Catholic disciplines and their theories of science . (Studies in theology, ethics and philosophy). Münster: Aschendorff. 2019. ISBN 9783402119181
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Christian Pelz (eds.): Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie. Volume 3: Theology and Metaphysics (studies of theology, ethics and philosophy). Münster: Aschendorff. 2020. ISBN 9783402119204
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Godehard Brüntrup & Ludwig Jaskolla (eds.): Panentheism and Panpsychism. Philosophy of Religion meets Philosophy of Science . Paderborn: Mentis. 2020 ISBN 9783957431714
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Christian Tapp (eds.): The Infinity of God. Philosophical and Theological Perspective . Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press. 2018. ISBN 9780268104139
  • Benedikt Paul Göck & Ruben Schneider (eds.): God's action in the world. New approaches from theology and analytical philosophy . Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet. 2017. ISBN 9783791729176
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Frank Meier-Hamidi (eds.): Design object human. Transhumanism on the test bench . Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. 2018. ISBN 9783451378515
  • Benedikt Paul Göck (ed.), After Physicalism . Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press. 2012. ISBN 9780268030001
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Ricardo Silvestre & Jean-Yves Beziau & Purushottama Bilimoria (eds.): Beyond Faith and Rationality. Essays on Logic, Religion, and Philosophy . Dordrecht: Springer. 2020. ISBN 9783030435356
  • Benedikt Paul Gätze & Margit Wasmaier-Sailer (eds.): Idealism and natural theology . Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber. 2011. ISBN 9783495484586

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Emmy Noether junior research group “Theology as Science ?!” online
  2. ^ Bendedikt Paul Göcke on the website of the DFG online
personal data
SURNAME Goats, Benedict Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinfurt-Borghorst