Edmund Runggaldier

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Father Edmund Runggaldier SJ (born August 24, 1946 in Ortisei in Val Gardena , South Tyrol ) is an Austrian philosopher and Jesuit .

Life

After a novitiate of the Jesuit Order in Carinthia, Runggaldier studied philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Pullach near Munich from 1968 to 1970 and theology at the University of Innsbruck from 1970 to 1973 . After completing his master's degree, he studied as an undergraduate at Oxford University from 1973 to 1974 , then as a doctoral student under Alfred Jules Ayer . In 1977 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy and became a contract assistant at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, then in 1979 university assistant there. In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck and in 1984/1985 was a university assistant at the Institute for Christian Philosophy there.

In 1985 he was made associate professor there and in 1990 full professor. From 1993 to 1995 he was dean of the theological faculty there, from 1994 to 1996 head of the Institute for Christian Philosophy and in the winter semester 1996/97 visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Loyola , Chicago, USA. He had to succeed in the winter term 2007/08 Ludger Honnefelder the Guardini - endowed professorship at the Humboldt University held in Berlin, since 2009 he is again a professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2007 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Act

His fields of work include topics of analytical philosophy of language , ontology , theory of action , philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion , as well as historical studies, among others at the beginning of analytical schooling ( Rudolf Carnap , Otto Neurath , Ludwig Wittgenstein ), traditions of phenomenology , neo-Homist transcendental philosophy ( Emerich Coreth , Otto Muck ), and theological modernism ( Jakob Frohschammer ).

Works (selection)

Monographs
  • Carnap's Early Conventionalism. An inquiry into the historical background of the Vienna Circle (Studies on Austrian Philosophy 7). Rodopi, Amsterdam 1984.
  • Signs and signs . Linguistic-philosophical investigations into the problem of reference. De Gruyter, Berlin 1985.
  • Analytical philosophy of language (Basic Philosophy, Vol. 11). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990.
  • What are actions? A philosophical examination of naturalism. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996.
  • Philosophy of esotericism . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996.
  • with Christian Kanzian: Grundprobleme der Analytischen Ontologie , Schöningh, Paderborn 1998.
  • with Bruno Niederbacher (ed.): The human soul - do we need dualism? , Frankfurt: Ontos (Metaphysical Research, Vol. 7) 2006
  • The human soul in Albertus Magnus. A non-reductionist contribution to the mind-body problem. (Lectio Albertina Vol. 11). Aschendorff, Münster 2010.
Essays
  • Carnap's Early Conventionalism , in: International Philosophical Quarterly 19 (1979) 73-84.
  • Metaphysical approaches in analytic philosophy , in: Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 108 (1986) 119-134.
  • On the empirical interpretation of the identity of persons as continuity , in: Theologie und Philosophie 63 (1988) 242-251.
  • The role of metaphysics in analytic philosophy , in: Bijdragen. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie en Theologie 50 (1989) 59-71.
  • On the Scholastic or Aristotelian Roots of "Intentionality" in Brentano , in: Topoi 8 (1989) 97-103.
  • Unity and identity as "formal concepts" in the metaphysics of Aristotle , in: Theologie und Philosophie 64 (1989) 557-566.
  • On the temporal duration of the objects , in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 99 (1992) 262–286.
  • Human action and indexicality , in: Theologie und Philosophie 69 (1994) 211–223.
  • with quitter: action descriptions and explanations. A challenge for naturalism , in: ZKTh 116 (1994) 321–329.
  • Ontology in analytic philosophy. A research report, in: Information Philosophie 22/5 (1994), 18–24.
  • Persons and Diachronic Identity , in: Conceptus. Journal of Philosophy 26 / 68–69 (1992/1993), 107–122.
  • Analytical Philosophy of Religion: Between Intersubjectivity and Esotericism . In: Theologie und Philosophie 71 (1996), 410-418.
  • On the service function of philosophy in theological faculties . In: Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 119/3 (1997), 284–295.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Edmund Runggaldier. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Runggaldier, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortisei in Val Gardena , South Tyrol