Heidrun Hesse
Heidrun Hesse (born July 14, 1951 in Wittdün on Amrum ; † January 25, 2007 in Wyk on Föhr ) was a German philosopher .
Life
Heidrun Hesse studied at the University of Tuebingen first Protestant Theology , then philosophy , German literature and education to become a teacher. In 1984 she received her doctorate in philosophy in Tübingen. From 1988 to 1993 she worked as a research assistant with a teaching position at the University of Tübingen and also held teaching positions at other universities. In 1994/95 she represented the professorship “Ethics in the Biosciences” at the University of Tübingen. After her habilitation in 1998 in Tübingen, she was a private lecturer there and taught as a visiting and substitute professor at the TU Darmstadt and at the universities in Ulm , Kassel and Marburg . Her main areas of focus were the theory of rationality , epistemology , philosophy of science , theory of action , ethics and social philosophy .
Most recently, she worked on a monograph with the working title “ Causality - Hermeneutic Studies on the Meaning of an Experimental Concept” . Heidrun Hesse died of cancer at the age of 55.
Works
- Reason and Self-Assertion - Critical Theory as a Critique of Modern Rationality , 1984, ISBN 3-596-27343-9 , 2nd edition 1986
- "... know how nature does it ..." - On rumors concerning the overcoming of mechanistic thinking , in: Heidrun Hesse (Ed.), Natur und Wissenschaft ( Bankruptcy Book 14), 1985, ISBN 3-88769- 214-4 , pp. 15-25
- From lambs and birds of prey - marginal notes on Nietzsche's " Genealogy of Morals " , in: German Journal for Philosophy , 5/1993, pp. 895–904
- Impressions and ideas. The function of perception , in: J. Kulenkampff (Hrsg.), Classics interpret: Hume's "Examination of the human mind" , 1997, pp. 37–52.
- Order and Contingency - Theory of Action versus System Functionalism , 1999, ISBN 3-495-47927-9
- Consciousness - foundation, illusion, riddle? , in: Bringing to Language - Philosophische Facetten, Festschrift for Peter Novak , 2002, ISBN 3-928579-23-1 , pp. 75–90
- What can we know On the requirements, structure and limits of scientific research into phenomena of consciousness , in: Hermann / Pauen / Rieger / Schicktanz (eds.), Consciousness - Change of Perspective Between the Disciplines , 2005
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar, year 20.2005, volume 1
- Hans-Joachim Lang : She was never a quiet stepper , in Schwäbisches Tagblatt of January 31, 2007, page 22
Web links
- Literature by and about Heidrun Hesse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Heidrun Hesse at the University of Tübingen ( Memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Obituary of the Society for Ecology ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (with picture)
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SURNAME | Hesse, Heidrun |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittdün on Amrum |
DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 2007 |
Place of death | Wyk on Föhr |