Dominik Perler

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Dominik Perler (born March 17, 1965 in Freiburg , Switzerland ) is a Swiss philosopher and has been a professor of theoretical philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2003 .

Life

Perler studied Philosophy and Russian Studies at the Universities of Friborg (Switzerland) and Bern and received his doctorate in Friborg in 1991 with the text The Propositional Concept of Truth in the 14th Century . He then worked as a visiting scholar at Cornell University in 1991/92, as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992/93 , and from 1993 to 1995 as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen . In 1996 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on representation at Descartes . In 1996/97 Perler was a Fellow of All Souls and University Lecturer at the University of Oxford . In 1997 the University of Basel appointed him full professor of philosophy. Since 2003 he has been Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 2001, Perler was DAAD visiting professor at the University of Oldenburg , in 2002 a participant in the Pierre Abélard Conférences at the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, and in the fall of 2004, Collins Professor at St. Louis University . In 2004/05 Perler was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2009 he was Silverman Professor at Tel Aviv University and in spring 2010 Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma . In the fall of the same year he was Carl Schurz Memorial Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 2011 he gave the Leibniz Lectures at the University of Hanover , in 2012 he was Edith Bruce Lecturer at the University of Toronto .

Perler has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2007 . From 2007 to 2010 he was President of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy. Perler has been a Global Scholar at Princeton University since 2013 . Since 2015 he has presided over the German Society for Philosophy .

In 2006 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize. In 2014 the Université Catholique de Louvain awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Act

Perler works mainly on the philosophy of the Middle Ages , the philosophy of the early modern period and especially on the theoretical philosophy of these epochs. He tries to reconstruct existing theories historically and systematically with today's philosophical methods and to place the historical positions in the debates of modern analytical philosophy . He became known for this method, among other things, through his book on theories of intentionality in the Middle Ages . Perler has also worked extensively on the interactions between Christian and Arabic philosophy. He also systematically deals with epistemology and the philosophy of mind . In the philosophy of mind, theories of the early modern period, theories of emotions and the consciousness of animals are at the center of his research interests.

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Monographs

Editing

  • Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality. Brill, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-04-12295-8 .
  • with Ansgar Beckermann : Philosophy classics today. Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010557-9 .
  • with Markus Wild : The spirit of the animals. Philosophical texts on a current debate. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-29341-9 .
  • with Ulrich Rudolph: Logic and Theology. The organon in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden 2005.
  • with Markus Wild: Seeing and understanding. Theories of Perception in the Early Modern Era. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-018957-5 .
  • with Johannes Haag: Ideas. Representationalism in the Early Modern Era. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-019542-2 .
  • with Klaus Corcilius: Partitioning the Soul. Debates from Plato to Leibniz. De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-031180-8 .
  • with Sonja Schierbaum: self- reference and self-knowledge. Texts on a Medieval Debate. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-465-04225-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Perler, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Friborg , Switzerland