Eva-Maria Engelen

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Eva-Maria Engelen (* 1963 ) is a German philosopher. The focus of her activities is in the areas of epistemology , philosophy of language and the history of philosophy. She teaches at the University of Konstanz .

biography

Eva-Maria Engelen studied philosophy and history in Mannheim and Konstanz and law in Mannheim and Freiburg . She received her PhD in philosophy in 1990 with the work Time, Number and Image. Studies on the connection between philosophy and science at Abbo von Fleury . After a research stay at Harvard and Yale Universities , she completed her habilitation in 1996 in Konstanz in philosophy, where she has been teaching ever since.

Eva-Maria Engelen is one of the founding members of the Junge Akademie at the Leopoldina and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Since autumn 2015 she has been the project and job manager of the Kurt Gödel Research Center at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , where Kurt Gödel's Philosophical Notebooks are published. The first volume was published by De Gruyter in 2019.

philosophy

Epistemology

Engelen works out a “logic of feelings” in her writings (including 2007), which cannot be reduced to just a mental evaluation. Conceptualized emotions and feelings therefore form their own evaluation system. According to Engelen's view, every assessment system with which man defines knowledge and truth is not only based on rational convictions, but also on feelings.

Philosophy of mind

Engelen's work is clearly influenced by the theses of the neuroscientist António Damásio . Accordingly, the experience of feelings and emotions is an essential part of the development and constitution of human consciousness . Feelings are also an essential part of intentional relatedness - also a prerequisite for self-awareness . In the context of these theses, Eva-Maria Engelen criticizes the identification of the neurophysiological foundations of consciousness as insufficient to explain intentionality (see also the neural correlate of consciousness ).

Awards

Works

  • From life to meaning: philosophical studies on the relationship between feeling, consciousness and language. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, MA 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033331-2 .
  • Feelings. (= Reclam Taschenbuch. No. 20316: Basic knowledge of philosophy ). Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-020316-3 .
  • Knowledge and love: the fundamental role of feeling in the performance of reason . 2003, ISBN 3-525-30140-5 .
  • Descartes . 2005, ISBN 3-379-20123-5 .
  • The fixed determines the possible. Semantic studies on possibility judgments . 1999, ISBN 3-7728-1995-8 .
  • Time, number and image: studies on the connection between philosophy and science by Abbo von Fleury . (= Philosophy and science . Volume 2). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-11-013849-2 . (Dissertation University of Konstanz 1990, entitled: Abbo von Fleury )
  • Kurt Gödel's philosophical notebooks as a space for thinking and a retreat , German Journal for Philosophy , Volume 67, 2019, pp. 251–264

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva-Maria Engelen: feelings . 2007, p. 33 ff.
  2. ↑ Eva-Maria Engelen: Emotions. Reflections on the cultural, physiological and conceptual design of conscious, phenomenal experience. In: Brigitte Falkenburg (Ed.): Nature - Technology - Culture. Philosophy in an interdisciplinary dialogue. 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-599-1 .
  3. ↑ Abstract of the conference "Critique of Emotions"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives: uibk.ac.at )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uibk.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Angels, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963