Heinz-Dieter Heckmann
Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (born December 30, 1953 in Lübbecke ; † June 12, 2016 in Münster ) was a German philosopher and professor at Saarland University . His main field of work was the philosophy of mind . Heckmann attended the Söderblom high school in Espelkamp. After graduating from high school in 1972, he studied philosophy, German studies, sociology and pedagogy at the University of Münster from the 1972 winter semester - with a long break due to civil service - until 1981, and did his doctorate with a thesis on theories of truth . Since 1999 he has held a professorship in Saarbrücken .
Heckmann's book Mental Life and Material World , published in 1994, is one of the early, intensive discussions of the philosophy of mind in the German-speaking world. Heckmann dealt intensively with the question of the reductive explainability of consciousness , which was expressed in book projects on the quality problem and mental causation . Heckmann made a name for himself time and again by criticizing reductionist concepts without inferring the truth of a dualism .
literature
- Mental life and material world , Gruyter, 1994
- Edited with Sven Walter: Qualia - Selected Contributions , mentis, 2006
- Ed. With Frank Esken: Consciousness and Representation , mentis, 1999
- Edited with Sven Walter: Physicalism and Mental Causation , Imprint Academic 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz-Dieter Heckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heckmann's website at Saarland University
Individual evidence
- ^ Moodle page of the Philosophical Institute at Saarland University. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heckmann, Heinz-Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and professor at Saarland University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luebbecke , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2016 |
| Place of death | Munster , Germany |