Guido Löhrer

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Guido Löhrer (* 1960 in Aachen ) is a German philosopher . He has been teaching at the University of Erfurt since 2008 .

Career

Löhrer began studying philosophy, German and art history in 1978 in Bonn , Bologna and Freiburg . In 1993 he was in Freiburg with a thesis on Immanuel Kant to the doctor of philosophy doctorate . Teaching positions at the universities in Freiburg i. Br., Saarbrücken and Bern and from 1997 to 1998 a substitute professor at the University of Hanover. In 2001, Löhrer completed his habilitation with a thesis on action theory at the University of Bern with the title Practical Knowledge , in which he expanded, among other things, the constructive type theory Per Martin-Löfs .

After substituting a chair in Regensburg in 2006, he was appointed professor for practical philosophy at the University of Erfurt in 2008.

His focus is on the theory of action and philosophy of mind (Theory of Mind and Action), metaethics , normative ethics , theories of moral change, epistemology , ontology and philosophy of language .

In addition, he was co-editor of the series History of Philosophy: People, Periods, Problems at the Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, Board member of the Swiss Philosophical Society and is a founding member of the German-Polish Society for Philosophy.

Works

  • Human dignity. Scientific validity and metaphorical limits of the practical philosophy of Kant (=  Alber series practical philosophy . Volume 49 ). Alber, Freiburg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-495-47812-4 .
  • Practical knowledge. Basics of a constructive theory of human action . Mentis, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-89785-292-6 .
  • Horn, Christoph / Löhrer, Guido (ed.): Reasons and purposes. Action theory texts . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29550-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile on the website of the University of Bern ( Memento from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ Review: Michael Bourdeau : Guido Löhrer: Practical knowledge . In: Journal for philosophical research , Vol. 59, H. 1, 2005, pp. 143–147. JSTOR 20485269 . Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Erfurt , accessed on December 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Löhrer, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen