Kirstin Zeyer

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Kirstin Berdina Zeyer (* 1967 in Münster ) is a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

After attending the Schillergymnasium in Münster from 1978 to 1988 , Zeyer studied philosophy as a major as well as German and Dutch as minor subjects at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from October 1988 to April 1997 . In April 1887, she earned the degree of Magistra Artium . The focus of her further studies in philosophy was on the theory of knowledge and science of the 20th century. In October 2004 she did her doctorate at the University of Münster with the thesis on Epistemology in the 20th Century - The Controversial Classical Positions of Spicker, Cassirer, Hartmann, Dingler and Popper . In 2005 she went to Trier to take part in a research project on social philosophy at the Institute for Cusanus Research. She moved to the Kues Academy for European Intellectual History (today: at the Cusanus University) in Bernkastel-Kues, where she was part of the science department and also took over the editing of the Coincidenta magazine . In April 2013, she completed her habilitation at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in philosophy with the habilitation thesis Cusanus in Marburg - Hermann Cohen's and Ernst Cassirer's productive form of the acquisition of the history of philosophy .

She is now the head of the Spirituality International encyclopedia project at the Titus Brandsma Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen . In addition, Zeyer has been a regular private lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since March 2014 and has also been a lecturer for special tasks at the Cusanus University in Bernkastel-Kues since June 2018. Kirstin Zeyer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hugo Dingler Foundation and has been the chairwoman of the Board of Trustees, succeeding Ulrich Hoyer , since March 8, 2019 .

Works (selection)

  • Cusanus in Marburg. Hermann Cohen's and Ernst Cassirer's productive form of appropriation of the history of philosophy . Aschendorff, Münster 2015 (= texts and studies on European intellectual history , series B, volume 10).
  • Paul Jostock (1895-1965). Christian resister and social reformer from the Trier region. An introduction to life and work . Roderer, Regensburg 2007 (= Interdisciplinary Philosophy , Volume 20).
  • Epistemology in the 20th Century. The controversial classical positions of Spicker, Cassirer, Hartmann, Dingler and Popper . Olms: Hildesheim [u. a.] 2005 (= studies and materials on the history of philosophy , volume 68). ( Table of Contents, PDF )
  • The methodical philosophy of Hugo Dingler and the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant. With a foreword by Ulrich Hoyer . Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 1999 (= studies and materials on the history of philosophy , volume 52).
As editor
  • Jostock, Paul: Basic features of social teaching and social reform . Edited, introduced and annotated. Regensburg 2006 (= Interdisciplinary Philosophy , Volume 15).
  • Social justice. In tribute to Paul Jostock . Edited together with Harald Schwaetzer and Henrieke Stahl. Regensburg 2006 (= Interdisciplinary Philosophy , Volume 18).
  • Co-editor of Coincidentia. Journal of European Intellectual History .

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SURNAME Zeyer, Kirstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeyer, Kirstin Berdina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster