Hans-Joachim Niemann

Hans-Joachim Niemann (* 1941 in Kiel ) is a German philosopher and author .

biography

Niemann studied chemistry and philosophy at the Universities of Kiel , Munich , Marburg and Tübingen . In 1970 he made his diploma in physical chemistry in Tübingen and in 1972 he received his doctorate there. rer. nat. After working in industrial research - laser isotope separation at KWU AG (Siemens AG) - he was a lecturer at the University of Bamberg from 1993 to 1999 and gave a guest lecture on critical rationalism at the University of Passau in 1994 . He is active as a philosopher and freelance writer with the research areas critical rationalism, critical-rational ethics and philosophy criticism. He is co-founder of the Franconian Society for Philosophy ( Bamberg ), the Society for Critical Philosophy ( Nuremberg ) and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Enlightenment and Criticism .

Publications

Works

• Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life , Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck), July 2014 (vii + 157 pages). ISBN 978-3-16-153207-8 .
• The utility maximizers. The resilient rise of advantage thinking , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011; 230 pages. ISBN 978-3-16-150856-1 .
• The strategy of reason. Problem-solving reason, rational metaphysics and critical-rational ethics , 2nd improved and expanded edition, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008; 306 pages. ISBN 978-3-16-149878-7 .
• Lexicon of Critical Rationalism , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004; 432 pp., ISBN 3-16-148395-2 ; unchanged study edition in paperback 2006, ISBN 3-16-149158-0 . For quick information about the thousand most important terms and arguments of Popper's (and Hans Albert's ) Critical Rationalism. With numerous cross-references and references to the original text passages.
• The strategy of reason. Rationality in Knowledge, Morality and Metaphysics , Vieweg, Braunschweig 1993; 188 pp., ISBN 3-528-06522-2 . Pirated edition of the unchanged paperback edition from 1993, 'Softcover reprint', USA, July 31, 2012, ISBN 978-3-322-86602-8 .

Translations and editions

• Karl Popper , Freedom and Intellectual Responsibility , Volume 14 of the series Karl R. Popper, Collected Works in German Language , with essays published for the first time in German, translated and edited by Hans-Joachim Niemann, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck), will be published in 2016.
• Karl Popper , Knowledge and Evolution , Volume 13 of the series Karl R. Popper, Collected Works in German , with essays published for the first time in German, translated and edited by Hans-Joachim Niemann, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2015, ISBN 978-3- 16-150348-1 .
• Translation by Karl Popper , The Myth of the Framework , London (Routledge) 1994. The chapters translated into German were divided into volumes 13 and 14 of the Gesammelte Werke , Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck), see above.
• Karl Popper , knowledge and the mind-body problem. A Defense of the Interaction Theory ( Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem , 1994, and The Self and Its Brain , 1977), Volume 12 of the Karl R. Popper series, Collected Works in German , translated and edited by Hans-Joachim Niemann , Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-150290-3 .
• Karl Popper , realism and the aim of science (Engl. Realism and the Aim of Science , Routledge 1983), Volume 7 of the series Karl R. Popper, Collected works in German , translated by Hans-Joachim Niemann, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002 , ISBN 3-16147772-3 .
• Karl Popper , The Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics (English Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics , Routledge 1982), Volume 9 of the series Karl R. Popper, Collected Works in German , translated by Hans-Joachim Niemann, Tübingen ( Mohr Siebeck) 2001, ISBN 3-16147568-2 .

items

• Basics of critical-rational ethics. In: G. Franco (Ed.): Sentieri aperti della ragione - Verità. Metodo, Scienza, Lecce (Festschrift for Dario Antiseri). Pensa Editore 2010, pp. 367-390.
• Principles of the Unifying Theory of Ethics (VTE). In: Enlightenment and Criticism 2 (2009), pp. 66–90 ( PDF ).
• Propensity and Serendipity - two guiding principles control happy coincidence. In: Enlightenment and Criticism 1 (2008), pp. 48–73 ( PDF ).
• About the limits of tolerance and ›objective tolerance‹ as an instrument to minimize violence. In: Science, Religion and Law - Hans Albert on his 85th birthday (edited by Eric Hilgendorf), Logos-Verlag (Berlin) 2006, pp. 313-340.
• As far as everyone is concerned, only everyone can solve - via the worldwide application of critical rationalism in wiki projects. In: Enlightenment and Criticism 1 (2006), pp. 67–93 ( PDF ).
• 70 years of falsification: royal road or dead end ?. In: Enlightenment and Criticism 2 (2005), pp. 52–79 ( PDF ).
• How objective can ethics be? In: Enlightenment and Criticism 5 (2001), pp. 23–41 ( PDF ).
• The 'Crisis in Epistemology' - Sokal , Bricmont, and the Scientific Standards in Philosophy. In: Conceptus No. 80 (1999), pp. 1-35.
• In Pursuit of Relativism. Nicholas Rescher 's Method of Double Writing. In: Quarterly Journal of Ideology 21 (3 & 4), December 1998, pp. 63-95.
• To the paradox of unlimited criticism. Critical rationalism as a problem-solving strategy. In: Conceptus No. 71 (1994), pp. 263-284 ( PDF ).

Web links

Wikibooks: Study Guide Hans Albert  - Learning and Teaching Materials

Wikibooks: Study Guide Norbert Hoerster  - learning and teaching materials

Wikibooks: Be sensible! - A crash course  - learning and teaching materials

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Niemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications at ORCID
• opensociety.de