Information philosophy
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| description | German science magazine |
| Area of Expertise | philosophy |
| publishing company | Claudia Moser Publishing House |
| Headquarters | Loerrach |
| Frequency of publication | four times a year |
| editor | Peter Moser |
| Manager | Claudia Moser |
| Web link | information-philosophie.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1434-5250 |
Information Philosophy is a four-times-a-year magazine on the current German-speaking philosophical scene with news, reports, interviews and discussions about its research, problems, backgrounds, positions, trends and controversies. It sees itself as independent and not committed to any particular philosophical direction or group.
description
Every issue of Information Philosophy begins with an essay by a specialist philosopher (including Dieter Birnbacher , Günter Figal , Volker Gerhardt , Jürgen Habermas , Otfried Höffe , Norbert Hoerster , Herbert Schnädelbach , Ernst Tugendhat , Bernhard Waldenfels , Walter Ch. Zimmerli ) on a more general topic Interest (e.g. genetic engineering , global justice , reproductive medicine , euthanasia ). This is usually a public lecture, occasionally shortened and revised in such a way that someone who is not a specialist is also addressed.
Conferences and congresses are announced with the date, topic, location, organizer and internet address. They are reported on, as are events at the philosophical institutes and seminars , appointments and awards . Reports on Philosophical Practices and Philosophical Cafés lead beyond the university area .
A continuous bibliography provides information on the philosophical new publications. Editor Peter Moser presents selected books in the form of summaries of the content. There is a separate section for issues . Introductions and readers are presented and critically assessed in the Studies section . Books and magazines that are to be used for teaching and philosophical practice or the teaching of philosophy concerning that heading are teaching information. A magazine show highlights individual articles and outlines their theses.
History, editing and publishing
The publisher and editor is Peter Moser (born January 1, 1950 in Muri, Canton Aargau), a trained bookseller and philosopher through his autodidactic studies. He founded the magazine together with Kurt Scheuermeier, who already made the magazine Junior . As an experiment, a sixteen- page zero number appeared in 1972 . It said: " Information Philosophy provides general information about philosophy ... Philosophy is understood in a broad sense, we also take into account important peripheral areas." Above all, the magazine should provide information about new philosophical publications. Therefore, from 1973 onwards it was first published as a bulletin by the Zurich NOVA bookstore. Peter Moser was responsible for editing and Kurt E. Scheuermeier for production. After just a few years, both founded the publishing house and bookstore Moser & Scheuermeier in Basel. After twenty years, Scheuermeier turned to other tasks, but remained connected to the magazine.
Co-editors are Thomas Bolli (Lucerne), Anton Hütter (Innsbruck) and Maria Schwartz (Munich).
In 1981, at the Kant Congress in Mainz, Peter Moser met his future wife Claudia Burger, who was doing her doctorate under Joachim Kopper . After completing her doctorate, she started working on information philosophy in 1987 and later became the publisher of the company, which has been called Claudia Moser , publishing and bookstore since 1991 and is based in Lörrach.
Information Philosophy began in 1973 with a print run of 1000 copies. In 1992 Moser reported a circulation of 3,400 and subscribers in over 30 countries. In 2002 Information Philosophy had become the most widespread German-language philosophical journal with a circulation of 4,200. After a decrease in circulation, it rose again to 3,900 in 2010, which is also due to the active use of the Information Philosophy website .
In October 2012, the 200th issue appeared as a double issue with a review of 40 years of philosophy. Information Philosophy has been published four times a year since 2013 .
Award
In 2008 , Federal President Horst Köhler awarded the Mosers the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for their services to philosophy . In the laudation it was said “that the magazine 'Information Philosophie' has a significant share in the internal communication in the German-speaking area, that it is recognized and used far beyond the subject of philosophy and that it cannot be valued highly enough for the discipline itself ".
Web links
- Website of the information philosophy with older texts, philosophical institutes with their staff and e-mail addresses as well as an extensive bibliography
References and comments
- ↑ The concept of SPIEGEL was already a model for the information philosophy for the editor Peter Moser when it was founded .
- ^ Title of the dissertation: The problem of knowledge and reality with Francis Herbert Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-88479-420-3 .
- ^ Badische Zeitung , October 9, 2008