Gregor Schiemann

Gregor Schiemann (born July 17, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

After an apprenticeship in toolmaking, Schiemann studied mechanical engineering, physics and philosophy in Kaiserslautern, Vienna and Zurich. In 1988 he obtained a diploma in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1990 to 2004 he was a lecturer and research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt , at the Institute for Philosophy at the HU Berlin and at the Philosophical Seminar at the University of Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1995 in Darmstadt. phil. with an investigation into the change in the concept of science in the 19th century (“loss of certainty of truth”) and qualified as a professor in 2003 in Tübingen in philosophy with a thesis on the current plurality of conceptions of nature (“nature, technology, spirit”). In 1990 and 2000 he worked as a fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology in Cambridge (MA).

Since 2004 he has been professor of philosophy with a focus on the theory and history of science at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and a founding member of the “Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Research. Normative and historical foundations ”(IZWT). From 2009 to 2014 he was co-editor of the " Journal for General Philosophy of Science " ("Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie"). Since 2016 he has been the spokesman for the research group "The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider". In 2018 he was accepted as a full member of the "International Academy for Philosophy of Science".

His research areas include the philosophy of science and natural philosophy as well as the history of philosophy and the history of science. His work focuses on the change in the modern concept of science, the philosophy of the natural sciences, especially physics, and the plurality of conceptions of nature within and outside the sciences.

Works

Monographs

• Loss of certainty of truth. Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism in the Dawn of Modernity. A study on the transition from classical to modern natural philosophy. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1997, ISBN 978-3534132652 .
• Nature, technology, spirit. Contexts of nature according to Aristotle and Descartes in lifeworld and subjective experience. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 2005, ISBN 3110180537 .
• Werner Heisenberg . Munich: Beck 2008, ISBN 3406568408 .
• Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty. A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature. Dordrecht: Springer 2009 (English translation of a slightly revised and abridged version of the loss of certainty of truth ), ISBN 978-1-4020-5629-1 .

Publishing activities

• With A. Nordmann and H. Radder (eds.): Science Transformed? Debating claims of an epochal break. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2011. ISBN 9780822961635
• With R. Breuninger: boredom. Looking for an out of date feeling. A philosophical reader. Frankfurt a. M., New York: 2015. ISBN 3593501821
• With T. Kirchhoff et al: Natural Philosophy. A text and study book. Tübingen: UTB (Mohr Siebeck) 2017. ISBN 9783825247690
• With D. Lehmkuhl and E. Scholz: Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories. Dordrecht: Springer 2017. ISBN 9781493932108

Selected contributions in anthologies and journals

• Totality or Expediency? Kant's wrestling with the manifold of experience in the outcome of the critique of reason , Kant studies 1992/83, pp. 294-303.
• The Loss of World in the Image. Origin and Development of the Concept of Image in the Thought of Hermann von Helmholtz and Heinrich Hertz , in: Davis Baird (Ed.): Heinrich Hertz. Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher , Dordrecht: Kluwer 1998, pp. 25-38.
• Nature: Culture and its other , in: F. Jäger et al. (Ed.): Sense - Culture - Science. An interdisciplinary inventory , Munich: Metzler 2004, pp. 60–75.
• One cognitive style among others. Towards a phenomenology of the lifeworld and of other experiences, in: Dimitri Ginev and Babette E. Babich (Eds.): The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology. Nordhausen: Bautz Verlag
• Ambivalences et limites du concept de pitié chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in: E. Escoubas - L. Tengelyi (dir.), L'affect et l'affectivité de la philosophie modern à la phenoménologie, Paris: L'Harmattan 2008.
• Nanotechnology and understanding of nature , in: G. Hofmeister, K. Köchy, M. Norwig (eds.): Nanobiotechnologies. Philosophical, anthropological and ethical questions , Freiburg et al.: Alber 2008, p.?.
• Natural philosophy as work on the concept of nature , in: Christian Kummer (Ed.): What is natural philosophy and what can it achieve? , Freiburg et al.: Alber 2009, pp. 151–169.
• Realism in Context: The Examples of Lifeworld and Quantum Physics , in: Human Affairs 2009 | 19 | 2 | 211-222
• Is an epoch-making change in the development of science currently taking place? A critique of the 'epochal-break-thesis' , in: M. Carrier and A. Nordmann (eds.): Science in the Context of Application. Berlin: Springer 2011, pp. 431–453.
• Naturalness and Artificiality in Bioethics , in: S. Schleidgen (ed.), Human Nature and Self Design, Paderborn: Mentis 2012, pp. 99–112.
• Loss of certainty of truth. Nietzsche and Helmholtz's conception of science in the dawn of modernity , in: Helmut Heit (ed.): Nietzsche's philosophy of knowledge in the context of the 19th century. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 2014, pp. 46–75.
• Nihilism of transparency. Limits of Jean Baudrillard's media philosophy , in: Jan-Hendrik Möller, Jörg Sternagel, Lenore Hipper (eds.) Paradoxality of the media. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2013, pp. 237-254.
• Lifeworldly and physical time , in: Gerald Hartung (ed.): Mensch und Zeit - On the question of the synchronization of time structures . Wiesbaden: Springer 2015, pp. 207–225
• The relevance of a non-technical nature. Aristotle's difference in nature and technology in the modern age , in: Gerald Hartung and Thomas Kirchhoff (eds.), What nature do we need? Freiburg: Alber Verlag 2014, pp. 67–96.
• With Brigitte Falkenburg: Too Many Conceptions of Time? McTaggart's Views Revisited, in: Stamatios Gerogiorgakis (Ed.), Time and Tense (Basic Philosophical Concepts) Philosophia, Munich 2016.
• The Objectivity of Nihilism, in: "Divinatio. Studia Culturologica", 2016.
• Sources and limits of lifeworld conceptions of death, in: Jassen Andreev et al. (Ed.): Das interpretative Universum, Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2017, pp. 415–439.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Schiemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gregor Schiemann's website at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Website on natural philosophy with the assistance of G. Schiemann