Karl Mertens (philosopher)

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Karl Mertens (born May 25, 1958 in Aachen ) is a German philosopher .

Life

From 1978 to 1985 Mertens studied philosophy, German and history at the University of Cologne , at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and at the University of Zurich . He did his community service from 1985 to 1986. From 1988 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1993. In 1994 he became a research assistant at the Kant archive at the University of Marburg and from 1995 to 1996 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation . From 1996 he was a research assistant at the University of Kiel, where he became senior assistant at the Philosophical Department. In 2000/2001 he completed his habilitation. In 2002 he took on a substitute professorship for philosophy at the University of Cologne. Mertens has been Professor of Philosophy at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg since 2004 . From 2007 to 2009 Mertens was President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research .

Fonts (selection)

  • Between ultimate justification and skepticism. Critical investigations into the self-understanding of Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology . (Orbis Phaenomenologicus VI, 1), Freiburg / Munich (Alber) 1996 ISBN 3-495-47818-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of Associations VR 7054 Munich District Court
  2. ^ University of Würzburg: Karl Mertens
personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen