Helmut Pape

Helmut Pape (born July 30, 1950 in Hildesheim ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Pape studied philosophy, sociology and English at the University of Hamburg . From 1977 to 1978 he was a Research Associate at the "Institute for Language and Semiotic Studies" at Indiana University , Bloomington, USA . In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg under Klaus Oehler with a thesis on the perspectives of natural language and the ontology of signs, and a study on philosophy and semiotics by Charles S. Peirce .

After receiving his doctorate , Pape worked as a freelance writer, philosopher and translator of science fiction and philosophical works in Montjoi ( southern France ) from 1982 to 1985 , where he later organized philosophical conferences until 1990 within the framework of the Académie du Midi . From 1981 to 1982 he worked as a documentary writer for contemporary history books for Spiegel-Buch Verlag. From 1985 Pape received a position as a university assistant at the University of Freiburg with Klaus Jacobi . In 1987 and 1990 he was able to work at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh with Nicholas Rescher , where he worked on the geometry of the visible. 1991 received Pape a job as representatives of a C 2 Professorship at the University of Hannover , where he habilitated in 1993 with a thesis on the meaning and mode of being visual properties. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the working group “Political Theory of Mass Culture” at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen . After finishing his teaching activities in Hanover, Pape has lived as a freelance philosopher and writer in Bamberg since 2001 and teaches philosophy at the University of Bamberg as an adjunct professor . In 2003 he founded “Vinosophia”, a company that links wines with philosophers and their concepts, and he was appointed director of a DFG edition project at the University of Bamberg, which produced the volume for the 1903 Lowell Lectures on Logic in Harvard of the American critical edition of the works prepared by Charles S. Peirce. From October 2004 to July 2005, Pape worked as a fellow at the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover on "Basic lines of an anthropology and ethics of humanity". In the winter semester 2006/2007 and summer semester 2007, he represented the W3 Professorship of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science of Alfred Nordmann at the TU Darmstadt . From October 2009 to September 2010, he worked as a fellow at the DFG research group Bildakt und Embodiment at the Humboldt University in Berlin , led by Horst Bredekamp and John Michael Krois .

Works

As an author

• Experience and Reality as a Drawing Process. Charles S. Peirce's draft of a speculative grammar of being, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 978-3-518-57950-3 .
• The invisibility of the world. A visual critique of modern ontology, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 978-3-518-58204-6 .
• The dramatic richness of the concrete world. The origin of pragmatism in thinking by Charles S. Peirce and William James, Velbrück, Weilerswist 2002, ISBN 3-934730-38-8 .
• Charles Sanders Peirce for an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-88506-391-9 .

As editor and translator

• Hector-Neri Castañeda : Language and Experience. Texts on a new ontology, from the American and with an introduction by Helmut Pape, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 978-3-518-06426-9
• Charles Sanders Peirce: Phenomenon and Logic of Signs , edited and from the American by Helmut Pape, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 978-3-518-28025-6
• Charles Sanders Peirce: Natural Order and the Drawing Process . Writings on semiotics and natural philosophy. With a foreword by Ilya Prigogine, edited and introduced by Helmut Pape, from the American by Bertram Kienzle, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 978-3-518-28512-1
• The thinking and structure of the world . Hector-Neri Castañeda's epistemic ontology in presentation and criticism, collection of articles (with Klaus Jacobi ), de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 978-3-11-011302-0
• Dimensions of self . Self-confidence, reflexivity and conditions of communication, collection of articles (with Bertram Kienzle), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 978-3-518-28542-8
• Creativity and logic . Charles S. Peirce and the philosophical problem of the new, collection of articles, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 978-3-518-28710-1
• Time and Signs , collection of essays (with Tilman Borsche and Johann Kreuzer ), Fink 1999, ISBN 978-3-7705-2873-8
• Charles Sanders Peirce: Semiotic writings , introduced and edited and from the American by Helmut Pape and Christian Kloesel, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2000, Volume 1: 1865-1903 ISBN 978-3-518-29080-4 , Volume 2: 1903-1906 ISBN 978-3-518-29081-1 , Volume 3: 1906-1913 ISBN 978-3-518-29082-8
• Indexicality and linguistic reference to the world , collection of articles (with Matthias Kettner ), mentis, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 978-3-89785-149-8
• Charles Sanders Peirce: The Thought and Logic of the Universe . The lectures of the Cambridge Conferences of 1898, from the American by Helmut Pape. Introduction and commentary by Hilary Putnam and Kenneth Laine Ketner. Translated with an appendix to unpublished manuscripts and introduced by Helmut Pape, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-58325-8
• Saul A. Kripke: Wittgenstein on rules and private language . An elementary representation, from the American by Helmut Pape, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-29383-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Pape in the catalog of the German National Library
• Podcast with Helmut Pape about the systematic exploitation of researchers and teachers at universities
• Zeit article by Helmut Pape: "University slaves, unite!" (DIE ZEIT No. 13 of March 25, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nico Schulte-Ebbert: A logical idealist. Helmut Pape's introduction paints a holistic picture of the semiotic Charles Sanders Peirce. In: literaturkritik.de. May 12, 2015, accessed December 17, 2019 .