Hans-Ulrich Hoche

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Hans-Ulrich Hoche (born February 16, 1932 in Erfurt ) is a German philosopher .

Life

After a few semesters of physics and mathematics in Giessen, Hans-Ulrich Hoche studied philosophy , comparative religion and Slavic studies in Bonn and Cologne. He initially financed his studies as a working student; after that he was supported by the German National Academic Foundation. After completing his doctorate with Ludwig Landgrebe in Cologne (1962) he worked as a DAAD lecturer at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City until 1965 . This was followed by a few years as a consultant at the German National Academic Foundation in Bad Godesberg (1965–1967), as a research fellow of the German Research Foundation with Günther Patzig in Göttingen (1967–1969) and as a research assistant with Günter Gawlick at the Ruhr University in Bochum ( 1969-1976). After his habilitation (1971) he was appointed Associate Professor (1973), University Lecturer (1976) and University Professor (1980). From 1991 to 1993 he was dean of the Bochum faculty for philosophy, education and journalism. He has been retired since 1996. He has lived in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance since 2013.

research

Methodologically, Hans-Ulrich Hoche is particularly committed to the philosophy of language analysis and the transcendental phenomenology of Husserl . Thematically , he mainly dealt with metaethics and the body-soul-world problem. For those he proposed an integrated analysis of the logic of faith and volition, for others a 'complementarist' approach.

Methods of philosophizing; informal logic

Due to his conviction that the factual philosophical attitude is (and must be) completely different from the philosophical-historical one , it became more and more important to him to thematize the - non-empirical - methods and to research them as precisely as possible, which are intellectually and socially responsible Differentiate philosophizing from the diverse but predominantly empirical methods of the established natural sciences and humanities (including the history of philosophy). Transcendental phenomenological and language analytical methods have proven to be essential for him. He was and still is particularly interested in informal logic, as it is expressed in pragmatic-semantic combination or consent tests on the basis of one's own fantasy and idiolect competence.

Metaethics; integrated logic of belief and volition

In terms of content, he first tried to make fruitful of these methods in the logical, namely idiolectical, analysis of the concept of moral obligation and the justification of the - analytically true - moral principle of the 'Universalized Golden Rule ' based on it. It turned out to be necessary to design an integrated logic of belief and volition (doxastic-theletic logic) that deviated from the established deontic and epistemic logics in several respects .

Theory of consciousness; Mind-body problems

Second, he also used these methods in the logical analysis of identity statements and the conception of the concept of a (not numerical, but) 'categorical' difference based thereon. In the case of the relationship between subjectively experienced consciousness and objectively perceivable body processes (e.g. in the brain), this important, but mostly neglected form of non-identity takes the special form of a strict 'complementarity' - especially not to be misinterpreted as a two-aspect theory in the sense of Niels Bohr.

Logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science

More than byproducts of his wide-ranging teaching and examination activities as well as his aforementioned research, a few texts in particular emerged in - and between - the fields of logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of science.

Fonts (selection)

  • 2015: Organ Donation and the Universalized Golden Rule. For: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 23 (2015).
  • 2014: Identity Reconsidered [together with Michael Knoop]. Not yet published.
  • 2013: In Search of a Purely Noematic Phenomenology. The Complementaristic Approach to Consciousness vs. Husserl's Method of Transcendental Reduction. In: Uwe Meixner & Rochus Sowa (eds.), The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl ( Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy , Vol. 16), mentis, Paderborn 2013, pp. 15–48.
  • 2012: Ascriptions of propositional attitudes. An analysis in terms of intentional objects [together with Michael Knoop]. In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 12 (2013), pp. 747-768.
  • 2010: Logical Relations Between Kant's Categorical Imperative and the Two Golden Rules [with Michael Knoop]. In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 18 (2010), pp. 483-518.
  • 2008: Anthropological Complementarism. Linguistic, Logical, and Phenomenological Studies in Support of a Third Way Beyond Dualism and Monism . mentis, Paderborn 2008.
  • 2004: In Search of an Integrated Logic of Conviction and Intention. In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 12 (2004), pp. 401–434.
  • 1995: Do Illocutionary, or Neustic, Negations Exist? In: Knowledge 43 (1995), pp. 127-136.
  • 1995: Anthropological complementarity and the 'unity of the thing'. Attempting a skeptical solution to a skeptical doubt. In: L. Kreimendahl (Ed.) Enlightenment and Skepticism. Studies on philosophy and intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries (Festschrift for Günter Gawlick), Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, pp. 107–129.
  • 1992: Elements of an Anatomy of Commitment. Pragmatic and logical foundation of a theory of moral argumentation . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1992.
  • 1990: Introduction to language analytical philosophizing . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990.
  • 1987: The mind-body problem: dualism, monism, perspectivism. In: Philosophia naturalis . 24, 1987, pp. 218-236.
  • 1986: subjectivity. In: J. Kirchberg and J. Müther (eds.), Philosophisch-Theologische Grenzfragen (Festschrift for Richard Schaeffler), Essen: Ludgerus, pp. 51–63.
  • 1985: Analytical Philosophy [together with Werner Strube]. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1985 (= Handbuch philosophy , edited by E. Ströker & W. Wieland, volume 6).
  • 1983: On the logical structure of 'golden rule' arguments in the sense of Hare. In: Kant Studies 74 (1983), pp. 453–478.
  • 1982: Relationship between Frege's semantics and Husserl's noematics. In: Archive for the history of philosophy 64 (1982), pp. 166–197.
  • 1981: On the methodology of combination tests in analytical philosophy. In: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / Journal for General Philosophy 12 (1981), pp. 28–54.
  • 1977: causal structure, unreal conditional clauses and the problem of the definability of dispositional predicates. In: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / Journal for General Philosophy of Science 8 (1977), pp. 257-291.
  • 1973: Action, Consciousness and Body. Preliminary studies for a purely noematic phenomenology . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1973. [Habilitation thesis.]
  • 1964: Non-empirical knowledge. Analytical and synthetic judgments a priori in Kant and Husserl . Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1964. [Dissertation.]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All biographical information is based on the homepage www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/lösungen/hoche.html.de .
  2. ↑ Homepage www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/lösungen/hoche.html.de Section III (research focus), 2 (metaethics; integrated logic of belief and volition) and 3 (theory of consciousness; body-soul problems) with references .
  3. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Hoche: On the methodology of combination tests in analytical philosophy. In: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / Journal for General Philosophy 12 (1981), pp. 28–54.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Analytical Philosophy [together with Werner Strube]. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1985 (= Handbook Philosophy, edited by E. Ströker & W. Wieland, Volume 6), Part A.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Introduction to Linguistic Philosophy . Scientific book society, Darmstadt 1990.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Anthropological Complementarism. Linguistic, Logical, and Phenomenological Studies in Support of a Third Way Beyond Dualism and Monism . mentis, Paderborn 2008, chap. I, II.
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Elements of an anatomy of the obligation. Pragmatic and logical foundation of a theory of moral argumentation . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1992.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: In Search of an Integrated Logic of Conviction and Intention. In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 12 (2004), pp. 401–434.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Logical Relations Between Kant's Categorical Imperative and the Two Golden Rules [together with Michael Knoop]. In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics 18 (2010), pp. 483-518.
  5. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Action, Consciousness and Body. Preliminary studies for a purely noematic phenomenology . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1973.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: The body-soul problem: dualism, monism, perspectivism. In: Philosophia naturalis . 24, 1987, pp. 218-236.
    Hans-Ulrich Hoche: Anthropological Complementarism. Linguistic, Logical, and Phenomenological Studies in Support of a Third Way Beyond Dualism and Monism . mentis, Paderborn 2008, chap. III-VI.
  6. ↑ Homepage www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/lösungen/hoche.html.de Section III (research focus), 4 (logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of science) with references.
personal data
SURNAME Hoche, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt