Holm Tetens

Holm Tetens (born October 9, 1948 in Oerlinghausen ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Holm Tetens studied philosophy , mathematics and sociology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and in Erlangen from 1968 to 1976 . He received his doctorate with Paul Lorenzen in 1977 . From 1978 to 1979 he worked at the University of Brasília ( Brazil ) Professor Colaborador IV (assistant professor) and was then 1980-1986 university assistant at the University of Marburg , where he joined with Peter Janich 1986 habilitated .

After a substitute professorship at the University of Göttingen from 1987 to 1988 and a professorship in philosophy at the University of Paderborn from 1988 to 1994, Tetens taught at the Free University of Berlin until 2015 , where he represented logic and philosophy of science .

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In addition to the theory of science and the history of science, the focus of his work is the philosophy of the mind as well as logic and argumentation theory . In logic he expresses himself skeptical of modal arguments and pleads for a more pragmatic approach to logic .

Tetens often represented a naturalistic conception of the mind and a tendency towards anti-realistic epistemology and described himself as an atheist. In his 2015 monograph “God Thinking”, however, he argued that there are reasonable reasons to accept the possibility of a personal God and to align one's life with it.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Mind, brain, machine . Philosophical experiments on their connection. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-008999-9 .
• Experimental experience . Meiner, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-7873-0725-7 .
• Philosophical reasoning . Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51114-7 .
• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. A systematic commentary. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-018434-9 .
• Think god. An essay on rational theology. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015. ISBN 978-3-15-019295-5 .
• Wittgenstein's "Tractatus". A comment. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-15-018624-4

Individual work

• 1986 What "revolutionizes" the theory of relativity ? Scientific theoretical considerations on the special theory of relativity . In: W. Büchel / U. Hoyer / H. Tetens: Theory of Relativity and Philosophy. Publications of the Catholic Academy Schwerte
• 1991 Loosen the neurosciences , the mind-body problem ? In: Information Philosophy 3 (1991)
• 1992 Naturalism and Culturalism : Reflections on the Naturalistic Exploration of the Mental . In: Peter Janich (Ed.): Developments in methodological philosophy . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1992, pp. 113-124
• 1992 vote on Gerhard Roth and Helmut Schwegler: Cognitive reference and self-referentiality of the brain. A contribution to clarifying the relationship between epistemology and brain research . In: Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.): Reality and knowledge : Realism, anti- realism and conceptions of reality in philosophy and science . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1992
• 1993 The neurobiology of humans : Between hard natural science and everyday psychology : Scientific theoretical considerations on neurobiology from the self-critical point of view of philosophy . In: Andreas Elepfandt, Gereon Wolters (Ed.): Thinking machines? - Interdisciplinary perspectives on the subject of the brain and mind. Konstanzer Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 1993
• 1996 The salvation of mental phenomena? Brief stage directions for a non-reductive materialism . In: Sybille Krämer (Ed.): Consciousness : Philosophical contributions . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1996
• 1997 Reductionism without reductions or from the harmlessness of physicalism in the philosophy of mind . In: Dialektik 1997/3, pp. 9-22
• 1998 Is Sensual Awareness Puzzling? The example of the colors . In: Frank Esken, Heckmann (Ed.): Consciousness and Representation. Schöningh, Paderborn 1998, pp. 283-297
• 2000 Modern brain research : a shock for our moral self-image? In: Brain and Thought - Cosmos in the Head. Published by the German Hygiene Museum. Hajo Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, pp. 44-50
• 2003 Naturalism and the Limits of Our Knowledge. In: Wolfgang Köhler, Hans-Dieter Mutschler (ed.): Is the mind predictable? Philosophical reflections . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, pp. 113–127
• 2004 The mental in a naturalistic perspective and the limits of our knowledge. In: Wolfram Hogrebe, Joachim Bromand (Hrsg.): Borders and border crossing. XIX. German Congress for Philosophy. Lectures and colloquia . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 417-428
• 2004 Free will as learned self-comment. Seven philosophical theses . Psychologische Rundschau 55 (4) 2004, pp. 178-185

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institut/mitarbeiter/emeriti/tetens/index.html Prof. Dr. Holm Tetens, Institute for Philosophy, FU Berlin

Web links

• Literature by and about Holm Tetens in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee page on "Prof. Dr. Holm Tetens ”at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin
• Naturalism - the metaphysical prejudice of our time? Abridged version of a lecture in Information Philosophy , Issue 3/2013, pp. 8–17
• Can you think of God? Holm Tetens in conversation with Eckart Löhr, November 7, 2016