Heinz Liebscher (philosopher)

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Heinz Liebscher (born April 12, 1931 in Dresden ) is a German Marxist philosopher .

Life

Liebscher studied philosophy in Rostock, Dresden and Berlin. From 1962 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin , Scientific Secretary of the Cybernetics Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Scientific Advisor in the Section for Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and head of the Working Group on Philosophical Problems mathematics and cybernetics in the field of philosophical questions of scientific development at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Between 1987 and 1991 he was Professor of Dialectical Materialism at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1992 he was retired.

Work areas

  • Cybernetics and General Methodology of the Sciences
  • Structure of cybernetics as a science
  • History of Cybernetics
  • Information and communication theory, artificial intelligence
  • Game theory

Fonts

  • with Georg Klaus : What is and what is cybernetics? 1966. 9th edition 1974.
  • Cybernetics and leadership. Berlin 1966.
  • Epistemological and epistemological problems in the formation of scientific system terms. Dissertation. 1969.
  • with Georg Klaus: Systems - Information - Strategies. 1974.
  • Pleasure to think, pleasure in arguments On the first anniversary of Georg Klaus' death on July 29, 1975. In: Sunday. 29, 1975, p. 8.
  • Georg Klaus: Contributions to philosophical problems in the individual sciences. Edited by Heinz Liebscher. 1978.
  • Dialectic of Cybernetic Knowledge. In: H. Hörz, U. Röseberg (Ed.): Materialistic dialectics in physical and biological knowledge. Berlin 1981, pp. 382-396.
  • Dialectics and Cybernetics. Studies of cybernetic concepts and theories. Habilitation thesis. Berlin 1981.
  • Georg Klaus on philosophical problems of mathematics and cybernetics. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1982
  • Georg Klaus - Life and Achievement. Conversation with Dr. Heinz Liebscher. Radio broadcast Radio DDR II on December 23, 1982, broadcast series "Studio 80".
  • An uncomfortable one who created something new. In: Spectrum. 14, No. 1. Berlin 1983, pp. 28-29.
  • Philosophy and other sciences from the point of view of Georg Klaus. In: From the philosophical life of the GDR. Information bulletin. 21, 8/1. Berlin 1985, pp. 31-35.
  • Ghost out of the machine? Philosophical considerations on artificial intelligence. Berlin 1989.
  • External or self-regulation? Systemic thinking in the GDR between science and ideology. LIT, Münster 1995.
  • Georg Klaus - an uncomfortable Marxist. In: V. Gerhardt, H.-C. Rough. (Ed.): Beginnings of the GDR philosophy. Claims, powerlessness, failure. Ch. Links, Berlin 2001, pp. 406-419.
  • Systems theory and cybernetics in the philosophical view of Georg Klaus. In: Hans-Christoph Rauh , Peter Ruben (Hrsg.): Denkversuche. GDR philosophy in the sixties. Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, pp. 157-175.
  • Social visions. Ideas from yesterday and today for tomorrow? Berlin 2012.

literature

  • Jérôme Segal: Cybernetics in the GDR - encounter with the Marxist ideology (= Dresden contributions to the history of technology and technical sciences. 27). 2001, pp. 47-75.

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personal data
SURNAME Liebscher, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden