Godehard Brüntrup

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Godehard Brüntrup SJ (2009)

Godehard Brüntrup SJ (born March 19, 1957 in Fulda ) is a German philosopher and Jesuit and has been a professor of philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich since 2003 with a focus on metaphysics , philosophy of spirit and philosophy of language .

Life

After joining the Jesuit order , Brüntrup studied philosophy at the University of Philosophy and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1979 and graduated in 1984 with a Magister Artium . His academic teachers included a. Wolfgang Stegmüller and Lorenz Bruno Puntel . After completing his studies in philosophy, he studied Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Innsbruck , which he graduated in 1989 with a degree in theology.

In 1990 he began to work on his dissertation under his supervisor Peter Bieri , after which he received his doctorate in 1993 at the Free University of Berlin . In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Philosophy and was appointed professor there. From 1984, Brüntrup taught and researched at various US universities, including a. from Rutgers University , the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Arizona . In 2002 he turned down an offer to full professor at Fordham University , but has since taught there several times as a visiting professor.

Since January 2012, Brüntrup has held the Erich Lejeune Endowed Chair for Philosophy and Motivation - in this role he deals in particular with questions of philosophical psychology, the metaphysics of mental causation, the theory of free will and the theory of action. For the 2013/14 winter semester, Brüntrup accepted a position as James Collins Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Saint Louis University . Since then he has been spending August / September regularly as an extracurricular professor at St. Louis University.

Research priorities

Brüntrup is considered a representative of analytical philosophy . His main research interests include metaphysics , philosophy of mind , philosophy of language , analytical philosophy of religion , philosophy of psychology and the history of analytical philosophy .

In the philosophy of mind, Brüntrup advocates a non-reductive, yet naturalistic theory of mind: He argues that the concept of emergence leads to a dualistic position without the panpsychistic assumption of gradually graduated proto-mental properties. In the tradition of Alfred N. Whitehead , he advocates the thesis that the intrinsic properties of matter must be thought of as analogous to mental properties. He therefore pleads for an expanded concept of the physical, so that his position does not imply idealism, but rather combines panpsychism with panphysicalism. The central point is René Descartes' rejection of the concept of matter, which continues to shape scientific thinking to this day. In contrast to the reductionist program of the old materialistic naturalism, Brüntrup speaks with Gregg Rosenberg of a “liberal naturalism”, which counts preliminary stages of the mental to the fundamental properties of nature.

Since his work at Fordham University, Brüntrup has been researching process philosophy - in particular the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Under his leadership, the Philosophy University has developed into an important research location for Whitehead's process philosophy in German-speaking countries. The role that process-philosophical thinking plays for Brüntrup can also be seen in the fact that process philosophy is used in many of his other research focuses: he advocates an organismic theory of self, will and motivation and his thinking in the philosophy of religion always shows a great deal of closeness on process theology and the process-based religious philosophy, for example, he has presented a process-theological interpretation of life after death.

In the border area between philosophy of mind, theory of action and philosophy of psychology, Brüntrup pleads for a realistic, process-philosophical theory of the self. He argues that people develop into integral people when they live in a congruence of personal goals and subjective abilities with an orientation towards a context of meaning. His philosophical approaches are essentially influenced by the motivational theories of humanistic psychology and the Munich psychologist Hugo M. Kehr. Together with Hugo M. Kehr (Chair of Psychology at the Technical University of Munich) and Felix Tretter (Head of the Addiction Competence Center of the Haar near Munich district hospital ), Brüntrup has the interdisciplinary project "Motivational and Volitional Processes of Human Integration: Philosophical and Psychological Approaches to Human Flourishing " brought to life. In recent years, Brüntrup has carried out several projects in the research project together with his student Ludwig Jaskolla. Among them the project "On the Importance of Intellectual Humility in Becoming a Person", which was carried out as part of the project "The Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility" (led by Eleonore Stump and John Greco, St. Louis University), as well as the cluster Research project "Varieties of Normative Agency", which was carried out as a cluster within the framework of the project "The Philosophy and Science of Self-Control" (headed by Alfred Mele , University of Florida).

In the analytical philosophy of religion, Brüntrup advocates that theology should open up to the developments of current analytical philosophy and the natural sciences. In this context, Brüntrup organized z. B. 1998 an international conference on "The Rationality of Theism". Since 2009, Brüntrup has been the regional editor of the European Journal of Philosophy of Religion for the German-speaking area. Since autumn 2010, Brüntrup has headed part of the "Analytical Philosophy of Religion" project of the John Templeton Foundation. In cooperation with the holder of the chair for fundamental theology at the LMU Munich, Armin Kreiner , Brüntrup leads a Templeton-Cluster-Initiative with the topic "Divine Omnipotence, Human Freedom and the Problem of Evil: Towards an Analytic Concept of Theodicy". Since 2015, together with Tobias Müller, he has been leading part of the international, interdisciplinary research project "Analytic Theology and the Nature of God", which is carried out in cooperation with the Universities of Innsbruck, Regensburg and the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen. As part of this research project, Brüntrup u. a. brought into the debate about the consistency and application of panentheism in the philosophy of religion.

Since the 1980s, Brüntrup has also been interested in computer-aided ontologies . In 2008/2009 he headed a research group in the context of applied ontologies. This project on "DomOnto - creating a universally applicable ontology for creating questionnaires" was funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology as part of PRO INNO II and carried out in cooperation with the software developer Comelio GmbH.

Social Commitment

When the sexual assaults by Jesuits against minors became public in 2010, Brüntrup responded immediately with the contribution A COPERNICAN TURNING? in the daily mail and published the book Unholy Power.

Film documentaries

Works (selection)

Monographs and edited volumes

  • (1994) Mental causation - A theory from the perspective of semantic anti-realism . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
  • (1999) Brüntrup, Godehard / Ronald Tacelli (eds.): The Rationality of Theism. Studies in Philosophy and Religion . Vol. 19. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
  • (2010) Brüntrup, Godehard / Maria Schwartz / Matthias Rugel (eds.): Resurrection of the body - immortality of the soul . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
  • (2012) The Mind-Body Problem - An Introduction . 4th revised edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
  • (2012) Brüntrup, Godehard / Maria Schwartz (eds.): Why we act. Philosophy of motivation . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.
  • (2013) Brüntrup, Godehard (ed.): "Minds: Human and Divine" published as "Special Issue" of the "European Journal for Philosophy of Religion" 5/1.
  • (2016) Brüntrup, Godehard / Ludwig Jaskolla (eds.): "Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives". Oxford University Press, New York, published as part of the "Philosophy of Mind Series" (ed. David Chalmers).
  • (2016) Brüntrup, Godehard / Ludwig Jaskolla (eds.): "Divine Motivation vs. Human Autonomy: Meta-Ethics Between Autonomy and Heteronomy", published as "Special Focus" of the "European Journal for Philosophy of Religion" 8/3.

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  • (1995) Mental causation and metaphysical realism. in: Theology and Philosophy . (70), 203-223.
  • (1998) Is Psycho-physical Emergentism Committed to Dualism? The Causal Efficacy of Emergent Mental Properties. in: knowledge . (6), 1-19.
  • (2001) Emergence. From unpredictability to self-organization. in: Graz Philosophical Studies . (61), 301-305.
  • (2004) Liberal Naturalism and the Reality of Phenomenal Experience. in: Goebel, B. / G. Kruip (eds.): Problems of Naturalism. Philosophical contributions . mentis, Paderborn, 183-210.
  • (2009) Natural Individuals and Intrinsic Properties. in: Honnefelder, L. / E. Runggaldier / B. Schick (eds.): Unity and Time as Problem in Metaphysics . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 237–252.
  • (2010) 3,5-dimensionalism and survival - a process ontological approach. in: Brüntrup, Godehard / Maria Schwartz / Matthias Rugel: Resurrection of the body - immortality of the soul . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 245-268.
  • (2011a) Brain, Spirit, God. in: "Quaestiones Disputatae 240, This side of silence. How to speak of God?" Herder, Freiburg, 64–86.
  • (2011b) [with Ruben Schneider] How Molinists Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too. In: Kanzian, Ch. / W. Löffler / J. Quitterer (eds.): "The Ways Things Are". ontos, Frankfurt, 221–241.
  • (2012a) Analytical Philosophy of Religion. In: Annual report of the School of Philosophy 2010/11, 4–15.
  • (2012b) Motivation and Realization of the Autonomous Self. In: Brüntrup, Godehard / Maria Schwartz (eds.): "Why we act. Philosophy of motivation". Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 175-200.
  • (2013a) Panpsychism. In: "New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy" (ed. Robert L. Fastiggi). Gale, Detroit.
  • (2013b) Real and Ideal Self. In: Viertbauer, Klaus / et al. (eds): "The autonomous subject. A way of thinking in distress". Regensburg.
  • (2013c) [with Ruben Schneider] Complete Concept Molinism. In: "European Journal for Philosophy of Religion" 5/1, 93-108.
  • (2014a) Freud's Critique of Religion. In: Frick, Eckhard / Hamburger, Andreas (eds.): Freud's criticism of religion and the "Spiritual Turn". Stuttgart 2014: Kohlhammer, 64–74.
  • (2014b) Quantum Mechanics and Intentionality. In: Corradini, Antonella / Meixner, Uwe (eds.): Quantum Physics Meets The Philosophy Of Mind. Berlin / Boston: 2014: De Gruyter, 35–49.
  • (2014c) Real and Ideal Self. In: Viertbauer et al. (eds): The autonomous subject. A way of thinking in distress. Regensburg 2014: Friedrich Pustet, 135–158.
  • (2015a) Complete Concept Molinism - The Molinism of complete concepts. In: Thomas Marschler & Thomas Schärtl (eds.): A conversation between systematic theology and analytical philosophy. Münster 2015: Aschendorff. 363-378.
  • (2015b) Atheism. Definition, dissemination, history, arguments. In: Heinrich Oberreuter (ed.): State Lexicon of the Görres Society. 8th edition Munich: Herder.
  • (2016a) Emergent Panpsychism. In: Brüntrup, Godehard / Jaskolla, Ludwig (eds.): Panpsychism. Oxford 2016: Oxford University Press.
  • (2016b) Immortality. [with Peter Gemeinhardt and Christine Helmer] In: Allison Jr., Dane / Helmer, Christine / Schröter, Jens / Römer, Thomas / Seow, Choon-Leong / Walfish, Barry / Ziolkowski, Eric (eds.): Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online. Berlin 2016: De Gruyter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hfph.de/hochschule/lehrende/prof-dr-godehard-bruentrup-sj
  2. ↑ https://www.domradio.de/themen/weltkirche/2018-08-22/angst-vor-dem-gottesdienst-missrauch-den-usa-deutscher-jesuit-ueber-die-wut-der-glaeubigen
  3. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard: Is Psycho-Physical Emergentism Committed to Dualism? The Causal Efficacy of Emergent Mental Properties. in: Knowledge (6) 1998, 133–151.
  4. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard: Natural Individuals and Intrinsic Properties. in: Honnefelder, Ludger / Edmund Runggaldier / Benedikt Schick (eds.): Unity and Time in Metaphysics. De Gruyter, Berlin: 2009, 237–252.
  5. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard: Das Leib-Seele-Problem (4th edition), Stuttgart, Kohlhammer: 2012, 8th chapter “A new concept of matter”, 152–177.
  6. ↑ https://www.hfph.de/hochschule/lehrende/prof-dr-godehard-bruentrup-sj/articles/2010d.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.hfph.mwn.de/drittmittelprojekte/philosophie-und-motivation ( Memento from February 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ https://www.hfph.de/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/archiv/humility-project
  9. ↑ https://www.hfph.de/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/self-control  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hfph.de  
  10. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard / Ronald Tacelli (eds.): The Rationality of Theism. Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Vol. 19. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht: 1999.
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ http://www.hfph.mwn.de/drittmittelprojekte/templeton-projekt-analytische-religionsphilosophie ( Memento from January 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ http://www.hfph.mwn.de/drittmittelprojekte/templeton-cluster ( Memento from January 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard. "Why 'Panentheism' Might not Be a Useful Concept." In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2018, forthcoming.
  16. ↑ Brüntrup, Godehard & Ludwig Jaskolla. "Panpsychism and God's Action". In: Gasser, Georg / Thomas Schärtl-Trendel / Ludwig Jaskolla. Manual for Analytical Theology. Münster: Aschendorff, 2017. 919–948.
  17. ↑ http://www.comelio.com/forschung/befragungen
  18. ↑ Godehard Brüntrup SJ: A COPERNICAN TURN? 2010, accessed on November 6, 2018 (d).
  19. ↑ Godehard Brüntrup, Christian Herwartz , Hermann Kügler (eds.): Unheilige Macht - The Jesuit Order and the crisis of abuse . 2nd Edition. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023289-1 , pp. 202 .
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SURNAME Brüntrup, Godehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda