Heinrich Watzka

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Heinrich Watzka (born October 5, 1954 in Elz ) is a Jesuit and professor of philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Heinrich Watzka graduated from the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in Hadamar in 1973 , studied Catholic theology from 1975 to 1980, first at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and finally at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. There he completed his studies with a diploma and then went to the novitiate of the Society of Jesus . From 1982 to 1985 he studied philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich , which he completed with a Magister Artium . In 1985 he received in St. Bartholomew's Cathedral in Frankfurt / M. the sacrament of ordination . From 1985 to 1988 he studied German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , with the aim of obtaining a teaching permit for grammar schools and graduated with the first state examination. From 1989, graduated from Heinrich Watzka a doctorate in philosophy at Herbert Schnädelbach at the University of Hamburg and Humboldt University of Berlin , which he in 1998 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. finished. At the same time he taught religion and philosophy at the Sankt Ansgar School in Hamburg . From 1998 to 2003 he was a lecturer, since 2003 lecturer in philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen. In the academic year 2000/2001 he was a visiting scholar at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . This was followed by teaching positions at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck (including a seminar on the writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch in the 2003 summer semester) and Munich (including the lecture " Philosophy of Language " in the 2003/2004 winter semester). In 2007 he completed his habilitation in "Christian Philosophy" at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck.

On July 30, 2007 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen. From October 2010 to September 2014 he was Rector of the PTH Sankt Georgen. In 2014/15 Watzka held the International Jesuit Visiting Professor Fellowship at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester , Massachusetts . Since 2015 he has been the superior (rector) of the Frankfurt Jesuit community and board member of the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen eV

Act

Heinrich Watzka took on a multitude of topics in the course of his academic career. The subject of his diploma thesis was the 7th chapter in the book of the prophet Isaiah , as part of his master's thesis he dealt with Jürgen Habermas ' philosophy . Finally, he wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of Wittgenstein with a focus on aspects of language philosophy. His habilitation thesis "From Representing to Understanding - A Theory of Concepts in Frege's Tradition" is an attempt to formulate a plea for the existence of concepts from an approach shaped by intensive semantics and anti-individualistic psychology, which is in the tradition of analytical philosophy Freges stands.

Memberships

  • German Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP)
  • Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS)
  • Association of European Jesuit Philosophers (JESPHIL), speaker since 2014
  • Adviser to Commission VIII (Science and Culture) of the German Bishops' Conference

Fonts

  • Say and show. The entanglement of metaphysics and language criticism in the early and late Wittgenstein (=  Munich Philosophical Studies . New series, volume 16 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-016160-1 (dissertation, Humboldt University of Berlin, 1998).
  • Philosophy of Language (=  basic philosophy course . Volume 11 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-026303-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Heinrich Watzka on sankt-georgen.de from October 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Watzka, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Elz (Westerwald)