Dieter Wandschneider

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dieter Wandschneider (born November 3, 1938 in Bremerhaven ) is a German philosopher. He is particularly interested in Hegel's natural philosophy .

Dieter Wandschneider studied physics and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn (among others with Theodor Litt , Oskar Becker , Johannes Thyssen , Gerhard Funke , Josef Derbolav ), Würzburg and Hamburg (among others with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Erhard Scheibe , Wolfgang Wieland ) from 1957 to 1970 . After completing his diploma in physics in Hamburg in 1965, he continued his studies in philosophy at the University of Tübingen with Walter Schulz and Otto Friedrich Bollnow , where he did his doctorate in 1970.

After completing his doctorate, he was a research assistant at Walter Schulz's chair until 1981. In 1978, Wandschneider completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and in 1984 he was appointed to the University of Paderborn . Since 1988 he has held a chair for philosophy and philosophy of science at RWTH Aachen University .

A commemorative publication published by Wolfgang Neuser and Vittorio Hösle was published in 2004 for his 65th birthday .

Research priorities

Wandschneider's main research areas are dialectics , philosophy of science , natural philosophy , the mind-body problem and German idealism .

Wandschneider sees dialectics as a “reconstruction of a fundamental logic” which “as a system of the fundamental conditions of meaning and validity of argumentation (e.g. the principle of the contradiction to be avoided) represents something like a fundamental logic that is always presupposed for all argumentation (and can be justified for this very reason) ”.

For him, the task of the philosophy of science is not primarily "formal-analytical methodology of the sciences, but a form of philosophy of science in the sense of a fundamental reflection on transcendental and [...] ontological prerequisites and principles of the sciences, especially the natural sciences".

In natural philosophy , Wandschneider ties in with Hegel; his “objective-idealistic concept of nature” offers him the appropriate approach to an adequate understanding of nature: “that nature is also based on logic; that this explains their regularity; that it does not merge in its factuality, but contains possibility that appears in evolution, for example, up to forms of the soul and spirit ”.

With regard to the mind-body problem , Wandschneider is mainly interested in the question of artificial intelligence and the associated "technical reconstruction of psychological and spiritual phenomena".

For Wandschneider, the central source of his philosophical concepts is German idealism - above all Hegel's philosophy, which understands fundamental logic as "an inescapable basis".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Neuser, Vittorio Hösle (ed.): Logic, mathematics and nature in objective idealism: Festschrift for Dieter Wandschneider for his 65th birthday. With the assistance of Bernd Braßel. In collaboration with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8260-2639-3
  2. ↑ On the following cf. the versions on Wandschneider's homepage

Publications (selection)

  • Formal language and experience. Carnap as a model case. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (Frommann-Holzboog) 1975.
  • Space, time, relativity. Basic determinations of physics in the perspective of Hegel's natural philosophy. Frankfurt / M. (Klostermann) 1982.
  • Outlines of a theory of dialectics. Reconstruction and revision of dialectical category development in Hegel's “Science of Logic”. Stuttgart 1997.
  • Technology philosophy. Buchner, Bamberg 2004, ISBN 3-7661-6653-0 .
  • Natural philosophy. Buchner, Bamberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7661-6657-9 .
  • Technology. 2nd Edition. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2020, ISBN 9783110621426 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wandschneider, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven