Heidrun Hesse

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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

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personal data
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