Christof Rapp

Christof Rapp (born December 30, 1964 in Rottweil ) is a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Since October 2009 he has held the chair for Ancient Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and director of the Center for Advanced Studies at this university.

Life

Christof Rapp studied philosophy, Greek, logic and philosophy of science at the universities of Tübingen and Munich. He received his doctorate in Munich in 1993 and completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 2000. From 2001 to 2009 Rapp was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He has held visiting professorships in Berkeley, Basel, Oxford and Paris. From 2001 to 2004 Rapp was chairman of the Society for Ancient Philosophy (GANPH) and from 2007 to 2009 spokesman for the Topoi Cluster of Excellence . He was the founding director of the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy in Berlin and is currently one of the directors of the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy . From 2009 to 2015 he was co-editor of Phronesis magazine . A Journal for Ancient Philosophy . Together with Gerhard Ernst he is editor of the journal for philosophical research . Rapp has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2010 . For 2018 he was awarded the Ausonius Prize of the University of Trier .

Rapp works primarily on topics related to ancient philosophy and its relationship to modern debates in metaphysics , ethics , action theory , argumentation theory and philosophy of mind .

Fonts (selection)

As an author

Monographs

• Identity, Persistence and Substantiality. Investigation of the relationship between sortal terms and Aristotelian substance (Symposium. Philosophische Schriftenreihe; Vol. 103). Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / B. 1995, ISBN 3-495-47816-7 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1993).
• Pre-Socratic (Becksche series; vol. 539). 2nd edition CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54761-4 (EA Munich 1997).
• Aristotle, rhetoric. Translation, introduction commentary, 2 volumes, In: Hellmut Flashar (Hrsg.): Aristoteles, works in German translation . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002.
• Aristotle for an introduction . 5th edition Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88506-690-3 (EA Hamburg 2001).
  • ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗ , Athens: Ekdosis Oktô 2012, ISBN 978-9609979856 .
• Aristotle, Topic. Translation with introduction and commentary . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-018337-5 (together with Tim Wagner).
• Epicurus, Selected Writings , Kröner, Stuttgart, 2010, ISBN 978-3520218018 .
• Metaphysics: An Introduction . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-40666796-1 .
• Aristotle. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2016 , ISBN 978-3406697722 (together with Oliver Primavesi).

Essays

• Why philosophy? . In: Florian Keisinger, Timo Lang, Markus Müller u. a. (Ed.): Why humanities? Controversial arguments for an overdue debate . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, pp. 85-95, ISBN 3-593-37336-X .
• What Use is the Doctrine of the Mean? , In: B. Reis (Ed.), The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006, 99-126, ISBN 978-0521125369 .
• Interaction of Body and Soul. What the Hellenistic Philosophers Saw and Aristotle Avoided , In: R. King (Ed.), Common to Body and Soul , Berlin / New York, De Gruyter 2006, 187-208, ISBN 978-3110183337 .
• Pleasure and Eudaimonia. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 14, In: C. Natali (Ed.), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII , Symposium Aristotelicum , Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009, 209-235, ISBN 978-0199558445
• The Nature and Goals of Rhetoric , In: G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle , Malden MA / Oxford / Chichester, Blackwell 2009, 579-595, ISBN 978-1118592434
• Aristotle's Rhetoric , In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2010 Edition).
• Friedrich Nietzsche and Preplatonic Philosophy , In: O. Primavesi / K. Luchner (Ed.), The Presocratics from Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels , Stuttgart, Steiner-Verlag 2011, 335–357, ISBN 978-3515097055 .
• The Moral Psychology of Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric , In: Ch. Shields (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2012, 589-611, ISBN 978-0190244842 .
• Aristotle and the Cosmic Game of Dice. A Conundrum in De Caelo II.12 , in: Rhizomata 2 (2014), 161–186. ISSN 2196-5110.
• Emotions in Ancient Aesthetics , In: Pierre Destrée / Penelope Murray (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics , Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell 2015, 438–454, ISBN 978-1444337648 .
• 'The state exists by nature' - About a strange thesis in the first book of Aristotelian politics , in: Andreas Höfele / Beate Kellner (eds.), Menschennatur und Politik, Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink 2016, 45–78, ISBN 978- 3770559442 .
• Dispassionate Judges Encountering Hotheated Aristotelians , online publication: Paul Scholten Digital Project 2016.

As editor

• Aristotle, metaphysics. The substance books (Zêta, Êta, Thêta) (Classics Explaining ; Vol. 4). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002865-3 .
• Dictionary of Ancient Philosophy . 2nd edition CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56846-6 (EA Munich 2002; together with Christoph Horn ).
• Knowledge and Education in Ancient Philosophy . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02147-5 (together with Tim Wagner).
• Translation and Transformation. Conference of the Berlin Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformations of Antiquity”, December 1st to 3rd, 2005 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019348-0 (together with Hartmut Böhme and Wolfgang Rösler ).
• Contributions to the Aristotelian theory of action , Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 2008, ISBN 3515090576 (together with Klaus Corcilius).
• Practical Syllogism (= Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 11), Paderborn. Mentis 2008, 91–228, ISBN 978-3-89785-160-3 (together with Philipp Brüllmann)
• Aristotle Handbook. Life, work, effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02190-8 (together with Klaus Corcilius).
• Fallacious Arguments in Ancient Philosophy , (= Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 15), Münster, Mentis 2013, (together with Pieter Sjoerd Hasper).
• Aristotle: happiness, state and character. (Series: dtv Bibliothek) dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28975-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Christof Rapp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the chair

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Christof Rapp (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
2. ↑ Peter Kuntz: Christof Rapp receives the Ausonius Prize. University of Trier, press release from February 2, 2018 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on February 2, 2018.