Georg Meggle

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Georg Meggle (born May 21, 1944 in Kempten ) is a German philosopher .

Life

After military service (1965–1967; lieutenant in the reserve , paratrooper ) Meggle studied at the University of Munich with Wolfgang Stegmüller , at the University of Oxford with Richard Hare and Peter F. Strawson . At the University of Regensburg he received his doctorate in 1979 under Franz von Kutschera , Regensburg. 1984 followed the habilitation in Osnabrück .

From 1985 to 1989 Meggle worked as professor for logic and methodology of the sciences at the University of Münster . From 1989 to 1994 he taught as a professor for systematics and ethics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . From 1990 to 1994 he was the founding president of the Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP). From 1994 onwards, Georg Meggle was Professor of Philosophical Foundations in Anthropology and Cognitive Science at the University of Leipzig . From 1998 to 2001 he was also head of the interdisciplinary research group Communicative Understanding of the German Research Foundation and from 1998 to 2004 head of the art communication project of the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art.

Meggle retired from the University of Leipzig in May 2009. From 2005 to 2016 he held an honorary associate professorship at the University of Melbourne (Australia). Since November 2011 he has been teaching as a visiting professor at universities in Cairo ( Al Azhar University , the Cairo University, American University in Cairo (AUC)) and in Salzburg. He has been honorary president of the Society for Analytical Philosophy since 2018 .

His students include Christoph Lumer, Christoph Fehige , Ulla Wessels and Christoph Jäger.

Act

For Georg Meggle, the analytical philosophy is a tool with which one can also gain clarity about everyday issues. Accordingly, he judges philosophers not just on what they say, "but to a considerable extent on what they do - or fail to do". At the beginning of his studies in Munich at the end of the 1960s, he joined the demonstrations against the emergency laws .

Meggle repeatedly campaigned for free discourse . In 1989, despite massive protests, he invited the controversial Australian ethicist Peter Singer to give a lecture. In 2000 he wrote two ethical commentaries on the Kosovo war in which he examined “ NATO morality” using logic.

From 2002 Meggle dealt with the ethical dimensions of terror & the war against him and with the Palestine conflict in seminars, lectures and lecture series at the University of Leipzig . In 2003, when Ted Honderich gave a lecture at Meggle's invitation , there were tumults, in 2005 there were protests at Noam Chomsky's lecture .

In 2004 Meggle initiated the Sunday conversation in Leipzig . It is an attempt to offer "University for All".

As Meggle 2020 at the Humboldt University Berlin, a lecture Who is Antisemite? held, this sparked national and international criticism, as Meggle is considered a sharp critic of Israel and a supporter of the BDS movement directed against the Jewish state .

literature

Monographs
  • with Manfred Beetz: Interpretation theory and interpretation practice . (Series: Theory of Science and Basic Research), Kronberg Ts. 1976.
  • Basic concepts of communication , Berlin / New York 1981.
  • Action theory semantics , habilitation thesis, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1984.
Edited volumes / manuals / almanacs
  • with Günther Grewendorf: Linguistics and Philosophy . Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt 1974.
  • with Günther Grewendorf: Language and Ethics . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1974.
  • Analytical theory of action . Vol. 1., Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1977.
  • Action, communication, meaning , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1979.
  • with Klaus Peter Rippe , Ulla Wessels : Almanach der Praktischen Ethik . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992.
  • with Marcelo Dascal, Dietfried Gerhardus , Kuno Lorenz : Sprachphilosophie - Philosophy of Language - La philosophie du langage , Volume I, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992.
  • Action, communication, meaning . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt.
  • with Ulla Wessels: Analyomen 1 - Proceedings of the 1st Conference on "Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy" . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994.
  • with Christoph Fehige : On moral thinking . 2 vol., Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1994.
  • with Marcelo Dascal, Dietfried Gerhardus , Kuno Lorenz : Philosophy of Language. Philosophy of Language. La philosophie du langage: An international handbook of contemporary research: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research: Manuel international des recherches contemporaines. Part 2; 2nd half band; Tome 2. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-020329-5 .
  • Analyomen 2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on "Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy" . 3 volumes, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997.
  • Actions, Norms, Values: Discussions with Georg Henrik von Wright . Berlin / New York 1998.
  • as ed. with Christoph Fehige and Ulla Wessels: The meaning of life . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • as ed. with Günther Grewendorf: Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality . Kluwer, Dordrecht 2002.
  • Social Facts & Collective Intentionality , in the series Philosophical Research, German Library of Sciences, Frankfurt / M. 2002.
  • as ed. with Christian Plunze: Saying, Meaning, Implicating , Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003.
  • Terror & The War Against Him . Public reflections, Mentis-Verlag, Paderborn 2003.
  • Humanitarian Intervention Ethics . Mentis Verlag, Paderborn 2004.
  • as ed. with Christoph Jäger: Art and knowledge . Mentis Verlag, Paderborn 2005.
  • Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism , Ontos Verlag, Heusenstamm 2005.
  • as publisher: Germany - Israel - Palestine. Polemics. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-434-50605-8 .
  • Philosophical Interventions. Mentis Verlag, Paderborn 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Person page at the University of Leipzig , accessed on May 1, 2020
  2. ↑ Georg Meggle: Difficulties of the media with philosophy , Heise 2005
  3. ^ Society for Analytical Philosophy eV - Organization. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Georg Meggle My Path to Analytical Philosophy (pdf; 36 kB)
  5. ↑ Georg Meggle Is This War Good? . University of Leipzig (pdf; 83 kB)
  6. ↑ NATO Morals & Kosovo War . University of Leipzig
  7. ↑ Georg Meggle Terror & The War Against Him . University of Leipzig (pdf; 292 kB)
  8. ^ Lecture series Germany-Israel-Palestine . University of Leipzig
  9. ↑ Do you want just terror? . Tagesspiegel, October 21, 2003
  10. ↑ Noteworthy things on Easter Monday . Leipzig Almanac, March 31, 2005
  11. ^ Website Sunday Talk
  12. ↑ http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=26614
  13. ↑ German university hosts pro-BDS event with alleged antisemit . Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2020
  14. ↑ Humboldt University rejects criticism . Jewish General, February 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Meggle, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten