Bernd Graefrath

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Bernd Gräfrath (born October 20, 1958 in Bonn ) is a German philosopher and chess expert.

Gräfrath's scientific work focus is ethics and philosophy of technology , whereby he has also researched and published about Stanisław Lem , who for him is one of the great philosophers of the 20th century. Lem, for his part, emphasizes that Graefrath helped him coining the term future philosophy.

Career

After studying philosophy and English at the University of Münster , the University of Arizona , the University of Konstanz and the University of Pittsburgh , Gräfrath received his doctorate in 1989 in Konstanz . Afterwards he was a senior scientific employee of the interdisciplinary working group Unity of Sciences at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Essen, where he is currently (as of 2020) an adjunct professor of philosophy and managing director of the Institute of Philosophy at the successor institution of the University of Duisburg-Essen .

chess

In addition to his academic work, Gräfrath deals with chess problems at a high level and also publishes on topics from the history of chess. He has published several book chapters on the philosophy of the only German world chess champion Emanuel Lasker . In the World Championship of Chess Composition for Individuals (WCCI) 2007–2009, Graefrath reached 7th place in the Retros department. Since October 2010 he has been an international judge for chess composition . On October 4th 2014 he was elected as the new chairman at the annual general meeting of the problem chess association Schwalbe in Dresden .

Bernd Gräfrath
Die Schwalbe 2009
Dedicated to Cedric Lytton on the occasion of his 70th birthday
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Evidence game in 12.0 moves

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Bernd Gräfrath composed the retro exercise opposite, a game of evidence in 12.0 moves (position after Schwarz's 12th move). How did the game go?

Solution: 1. e3 d5 2. Bc4 d4 3. Bd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 Qxf3 5. 0–0 Qxd1 6. f3 Qxc1 7. Kf2 Qxb1 8. Ke2 Qxa2 9. Tae1 e6 10. Kd1 Bd6 11. Kc1 Ne7 12. Td1 0-0. Visually it looks like a long castling of white, although white actually castled briefly.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and editions

  • Moral sense and practical reason: David Hume's ethics and legal philosophy. Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-00742-1 .
  • John Stuart Mill: On Freedom: An Introductory Commentary. Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-506-99429-8 .
  • How fair is the quota for women? A practical philosophical investigation. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-88479-710-7 .
  • Heretics, amateurs and geniuses: philosophy crossers. Junius, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-227-5 .
  • Lem's Golem: Parerga and Paralipomena. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-39027-9 .
  • Evolutionary ethics? Philosophical programs, problems and perspectives in sociobiology. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-015392-0 .
  • It is not easy to be a god: ethics for world creators from Leibniz to Lem. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42065-6 .
  • (Ed.): John Stuart Mill : On Liberty / About freedom. (English German). with appendix and afterword. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018536-0 .
  • Photos and chess compositions , self-published, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2013, without ISBN.
  • Chess stories with photographs , self-published, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2014, without ISBN.

Book essays

  • Between things and people: On the discovery of the animal in contemporary moral philosophy. In: Paul Münch , Rainer Walz (Hrsg.): Animals and people: history and actuality of a precarious relationship. Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 1998, pp. 383-405.
  • Darwinism: Neither Biologistic nor Metaphysical. In: Vittorio Hösle , Christian Illies (ed.): Darwinism & Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana 2005, pp. 364-379.
  • Samuel Butler - the Darwin of machine culture. In: Samuel Butler: Erewhon or Beyond the Mountains. The Other Library, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 367–386.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Gräfrath: Lems Golem: Parerga and Paralipomena , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1996, p. 9.
  2. Stanisław Lem, Die Technologiefalle: Essays , Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 2000, p. 103, there it says: “This gap will of course be overcome gradually and slowly, but its companion for extrapolation will be the 'future philosophy'. The German philosopher B. Gräfrath from Essen helped me to coin this term. At the university there he gives lectures on the basics of a 'lemology', based on my discursive work such as 'Also sprach Golem', (...) "
  3. For example: Lasker and the philosophy of the present , in: Emanuel Lasker: Homo ludens - homo politicus; Contributions about his life and work , ed. by Elke-Vera Kotowski, Susanna Poldauf u. Paul Werner Wagner (Potsdam: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2003), pp. 55–67, or Lasker as a philosopher , in: Emanuel Lasker: Denker - Weltenbürger - Schachweltmeister , ed. by Richard Forster, Stefan Hansen u. Michael Negele (Berlin: Exzelsior, 2009), pp. 233-250.
  4. ^ Result list of the 2007–2009 World Cup
  5. ^ Message from the World Federation for Chess Compositions
  6. Addresses of the presidents of the regional associations
  7. Schwalbe Meeting 2014
  8. a b Listed in the John G. White Collection of the Cleveland Public Library, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich) and the University and State Library Düsseldorf.