Jörg Hermann Fehige

Jörg Hermann Yiftach Fehige (* 1976 ) is a German religious philosopher and theologian . He mainly works in the field of thought experiments , knowledge of God and gender identity . Since 2006 he has been teaching at the University of Toronto .

Jörg Fehige studied theology, philosophy and physics in Frankfurt am Main and Munich . In 2001 he received the German Study Award . From 2002 to 2006 he was a guest student at Tel Aviv University . In 2004 he received his doctorate at the University of Mainz in the philosophical seminar in the field of logic and philosophy of science . In 2006 he also received his doctorate in theology.

Fehige taught from 2004 to 2006 on issues at the interface between philosophy and theology at the Universities of Koblenz, Mainz and Frankfurt am Main. At the same time he worked as a teacher for Catholic religion, Latin and philosophy at the St. Franziskus Gymnasium and Realschule in Kaiserslautern. In 2006 he conducted research on thought experiments at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (Canada) with James R. Brown. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Christianity and Science at St. Michael's College and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto.

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• Joerg HY Fehige: The gender erosion of semantic realism. A logical-semantic investigation into the concept of biological sex. Paderborn: Mentis-Verlag 2006.
• Joerg HY Fehige: Sexual Philosophy. An introductory approach, Berlin 2007.
• Joerg HY Fehige: The paradox of revelation. On the way to a Christian-Jewish dialogue (in preparation)
• Joerg HY Fehige: About thought experiments, freedom, compassion and love. In search of human rationality. in: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, Volume 59 (2/2006)
• Joerg HY Fehige: Creativity in thinking: a criticism of the reliability argument of John D. Norton against rationalistic epistemologies to the method of the thought experiment In: Creativity: Section contributions to the XX. German Congress for Philosophy in Berlin 2005; Volume 1 / ed. by Günter Abel. Berlin: Univ.-Verl. of the TU Berlin, 2005. ISBN 3-7983-1989-8 .
• Joerg HY Fehige: The question about God and a criticism of the exaggerated answer by Norbert Hoerster. in: Theology and philosophy journal of the St. Georgen University of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 81 (2006), Issue 1
• Joerg HY Fehige: How Real is the God of theologians? A reply to Peter Byrne's theological agnosticism. in: Theology and philosophy journal of the St. Georgen University of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 79 (2004), issue 4
• Joerg HY Fehige: “Experience of God in thinking”. On the method of the thought experiment - a renaissance of rationalism? in: Ollig, Hans-Ludwig (ed.): Theo-Anthropologie. Jörg Splett in honor, Würzburg: echter-Verlag, 2006