Dieter Schönecker

Dieter Schönecker (* 1965 ) is a German philosopher . He has been Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Siegen since 2006 .

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Schönecker studied philosophy, German literature and comparative religion in Bonn and Amherst. In 1997 he received his doctorate in Bonn with a dissertation on the deduction of the categorical imperative in the third section of Immanuel Kant's Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals .

From 1997 to 1999 Schönecker was a visiting fellow and lecturer at Yale University . In 1999 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn , from 2000 to 2002 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg ; from 2003 to 2005 he was an associate professor at Stonehill College . Schönecker has been a professor at the University of Siegen since January 2006. Schönecker is the founder of the Center for Commentary Interpretations on Kant (ZetKIK).

Together with Nico Strobach, Schönecker is the publisher of the series Introductory Philosophy ( Scientific Book Society ), which is committed to the approach of analytical philosophy .

For his work at ZetKIK and the associated promotion of German as a scientific language, Dieter Schönecker was awarded the German Language Initiative Prize in 2011 .

In 2019/2020 Dieter Schönecker is "Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at Stanford University".

research

Schönecker advocates the separation of philosophical historical research and systematic concept formation contained in the idea of commentary interpretation . His main research interests are systematic metaethics , epistemology and applied ethics , as well as historically the practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant . In systematic terms he is a representative of moral realism .

Schönecker initiated the translation of Alvin Plantinga's work “Warranted Christian Belief” into German. He is also the editor of a collection of essays on this work, in which Plantinga himself responds to criticism.

controversy

In the 2018/19 winter semester, Schönecker's course on “Philosophy and Practice of Freedom of Expression” caused a sensation, to which decidedly conservative or right-wing thinkers, including Norbert Bolz , Egon Flaig , Thilo Sarrazin and Marc Jongen ( Member of the Bundestag , AfD ), were invited as guest speakers. This invitation initially triggered protests from within the university, then in the regional press and finally in supraregional features discussions about controversy and freedom of expression.

Works

Monographs

• with Gregor Damschen : Philosophize yourself. A method book , Berlin, second edition 2013.
• Kant's concept of transcendental and practical freedom. An evolutionary study. de Gruyter, Berlin 2005 (with the assistance of Stefanie Buchenau and Desmond Hogan).
• with Allen W. Wood: Immanuel Kant, “Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals”. An introductory comment. 1st edition 2002, 4th edition Schöningh, Paderborn 2011. 2015: Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. A Commentary , Harvard University Press (2011 English translation, with additions and improvements).
• Kant: Foundation III. The deduction of the categorical imperative , Freiburg 1999.

Editorships

• Kant's justification of freedom and morality in foundation III. New interpretations , mentis, Münster 2015.
• Perceiving the good, the beautiful and the holy - new contributions to the realism debate , mentis, Paderborn, 2011 (with Elisabeth Heinrich)
• The moral status of human embryos. Arguments for and against. Species, continuum, identity and potentiality argument, de Gruyter, Berlin 2003 (with Gregor Damschen)
• Moral motivation. Kant and the alternatives. Kant Research, Vol. 16, Meiner, Hamburg 2006 (with Manfred Kühn and Heiner Klemme).
• Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals , de Gruyter, Berlin 2006 (with Christoph Horn).
• Concepts of Rationality , International Yearbook of German Idealism / International Yearbook of German Idealism, Vol. 1, 2003 (Assistant Editor).
• The Concept of the State , International Yearbook of German Idealism / International Yearbook of German Idealism, Vol. 2, 2004 (Assistant Editor).
• German Idealism and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy , International Yearbook of German Idealism / International Yearbook of German Idealism, Vol. 3, 2005 (Assistant Editor).
• Understanding Kant / Understanding Kant. On the interpretation of philosophical texts , 1st edition 2001, 2nd edition Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004 (with Thomas Zwenger ).
• Immanuel Kant: Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals . Newly published and introduced by Bernd Kraft and Dieter Schönecker, Meiner, Hamburg 2001.

Articles (selection)

• "God and the moral world", in: Detlef Horster (Ed.): Texts on ethics . Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, 139-150.
• “Why be moral? A map for moral realists ”, in: Heiner F. Klemme / Manfred Kühn / Dieter Schönecker (eds.): Moral motivation. Kant and the alternatives . Meiner, Hamburg 2006, 299–327.
• "Is no statement certain? A reconstruction and criticism of the German fallibilism debate ”, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung , Issue 1, 2004, 54–79 (with Miriam Ossa).
• “In dubio per embryone. New arguments on the moral status of human embryos ”, in: Gregor Damschen / Dieter Schönecker (eds.): The moral status of human embryos. Arguments for and against species, continuum, identity and potentiality argument , de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, 187–267 (with Gregor Damschen).
• "Sixteen Days? A Reply to B. Smith and B. Brogaard “, in: The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy , 31, 2006, 165–175 (with Gregor Damschen and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo).
• "In the future φ. About a subjectivistic thought experiment in the embryo debate ”, in: Yearbook for Science and Ethics , Vol. 8 (2003), 67–93 (with Gregor Damschen).
• “Text forgetfulness in the history of philosophy”, in: Dieter Schönecker / Thomas Zwenger (ed.): Understanding Kant / Understanding Kant. On the interpretation of philosophical texts , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, 159–181.
• "How is a categorical imperative possible? Kant's deduction of the moral law in Groundwork III ", in: Christoph Horn / Dieter Schönecker (eds.):" Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals . New Interpretations ", Berlin 2006, 302-324.
• "The Transition from Common Rational to Philosophical Rational Moral Knowledge in the Groundwork ", in: Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy , edited by Karl Ameriks and Otfried Höffe, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 93–122.
• “The 'kind of circle' in the third section of Kant's foundation ”, in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 22 (1997), 189-202.
• “No being, no particularity. Hegel on the reason of sensual certainty ”, in: International Yearbook of German Idealism / International Yearbook of German Idealism , 1, 2003, 241–269.
• "Kant's Moral Intuitionism: The Fact of Reason and Moral Predispositions", in: Kant Studies online , 1, 2013, 1–38 ( online ; PDF; 420 kB).
• “The felt fact of reason. Sketch of an Interpretation and Defense ”, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie , Issue 1, 2013, 91-107.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Schönecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee page at the University of Siegen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the German Language Culture Prize jury , print of the acceptance speech on the occasion of the award ceremony in research and teaching 12/2011 .
2. ↑ Fellows | Gerda Henkel Foundation. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Warranted Christian Belief. Oxford 2000.
4. ↑ Schönecker, Dieter (Ed.): Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief'. Critical Essays with a Reply by Alvin Plantinga, Berlin 2015.
5. ↑ Seminar “Think and Let Think. On the Philosophy and Practice of Freedom of Expression ” , announcement.
6. ^ Armin Beverungen, Marcus Burkhardt, Tatjana Seitz: Freedom of opinion, right-wing populist networks and nazi-free universities. To the seminar “Think and let think” by Prof. Dieter Schönecker. In: ZfM: Journal for Media Studies. December 14, 2018.
7. ↑ Eberhard Winterhager: The question of direction. A dispute at the University of Siegen. In: Siegener Zeitung , December 29, 2018, p. 1 f.
8. ^ Thomas Thiel : Discussion ban: Islanders on campus . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 19, 2018.
9. ↑ Micha Brumlik : Freedom of expression was never endangered. Right-wing ideologues at the University of Siegen . In: the daily newspaper , November 12, 2018.
10. ↑ Erhard Schüttpelz: Installation of a hands-free system. A preliminary report in eleven letters . In: Mercury. Blog , January 4, 2019.
11. ↑ David Matthews: US-style free speech controversies arrive in Germany: Invitation of two far-right speakers to the University of Siegen has prompted protests and counter-claims of censorship. In: Times Higher Education , December 18, 2018.
12. ↑ Dieter Schönecker: Are you allowed to discuss things with Sarrazin? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 7, 2018.
13. ↑ Maria-Sibylla Lotter: Freedom of Expression: Who can say what here? In: Die ZEIT. December 13, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Dieter Schönecker: The protection of freedom. In: Swiss Month , Edition 1064 (March 2019). Retrieved on February 28, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).