Elke Brendel
Elke Brendel (* 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher and professor of logic and basic research at the University of Bonn . Her main research interests are in the areas of logic , philosophy of language , epistemology , argumentation theory and philosophy of science .
Life
After completing her master's degree in philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1987, she completed her doctorate in 1991 with a logical-language-philosophical thesis on semantic paradoxes. In 1998 she completed her habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the concepts of truth and knowledge in modern analytical language and epistemology. After holding a lectureship in logic and philosophy of science at the University of Leipzig , she accepted a professorship for philosophy with a focus on logic and philosophy of science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2000 . In the winter semester 2009/10 she accepted a professorship for philosophy with a focus on logic and basic research at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She succeeds Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz in this chair .
literature
- Monographs
- with Wilhelm K. Essler : Classes, Relations, Numbers (= Fundamentals of Logic. Volume 2). Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann 1987, ISBN 3-465-01551-7 .
- The truth about the liar. A philosophical and logical analysis of the liar's antinomy . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-013684-8 (At the same time: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1991).
- Truth and knowledge. Paderborn, Mentis 1999, ISBN 3-89785-049-4 .
- Knowledge. (= Basic themes of philosophy). de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-022012-4 .
- Editing
- with Christoph Jäger: Contextualisms in Epistemology. Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2005, ISBN 1-4020-3181-5 (also as a special volume of the journal Knowledge. Volume 61, Nos. 2/3, 2004, ISSN 0165-0106 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Elke Brendel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elke Brendel in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brendel, Elke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and professor of logic and basic research |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |