Klaus Sachs-Hombach

Klaus Sachs-Hombach (born December 2, 1957 in Hattingen / Ruhr ) is professor for media studies at the University of Tübingen . His main research interests are philosophical image theories ( image science ), semiotics , communication theory , cultural philosophy , media theory . In addition , philosophy of science , philosophical problems in psychology and cognitive science , history of philosophy, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Sachs-Hombach received his doctorate in philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1990 , then worked as a research assistant at the University of Magdeburg . He was visiting the Subfaculty of Philosophy at Oxford University (1991) and MIT (1992). After completing his habilitation in 2003, he was employed as a senior scientific assistant at the Institute for Simulation and Graphics at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . From 2007 he was professor of philosophy with a focus on cognitive science at the TU Chemnitz . In October 2011 he was appointed to a professorship for media studies (focus on media innovation / media change) at the University of Tübingen .

Publications

2011: Pictures - Seeing - Thinking. On the relationship between conceptual-philosophical and empirical-psychological approaches in visual research. (Ed. With Rainer Totzke) Cologne: Halem Verlag.
2009: Image Theories. Anthropological and cultural foundations of the visualistic turn. (Ed.) Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp.
2006: image and medium. Art history and philosophical foundations of interdisciplinary image science. Cologne: Halem Verlag.
2005: Image Science. Disciplines, topics, methods. (Ed.) Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp.
2005: Image science between reflection and application. Cologne: Halem Verlag.
2005: The weird camera. Forms and functions of unusual camera angles in film and television. IMAGE 1, special supplement, Cologne: Halem Verlag.
2004: Paths to Image Science . Interviews with Hans Belting , Gottfried Boehm , Gernot Böhme , Reinhard Brandt , Ferdinand Fellmann , Dietfried Gerhardus , Tonio Hölscher , Hans Dieter Huber , Karlheinz Lüdeking , Roland Posner , Oliver R. Scholz , Peter Schreiber , Michael Sukale , Felix Thürlemann , Bernhard Waldenfels , Lambert Wiesing and Hans Jürgen Wulff . Cologne, Halem Verlag.
2003: The image as a communicative medium. Elements of a general image science as a medium. Cologne: Halem Verlag.
2003: What is image literacy? Studies in image science. (Ed.) Wiesbaden: German University Press.
2001: Bildhandeln. Interdisciplinary research on the pragmatics of pictorial forms of representation. (Ed. With Klaus Rehkämper ) Magdeburg: Scriptum Verlag.
2000: On the realism of images. Interdisciplinary research on the semantics of pictorial forms of representation. (Ed. With Klaus Rehkämper) Magdeburg: Scriptum Verlag.
1999: Pictorial grammar. Interdisciplinary research on the syntax of pictorial forms of representation. (Ed. With Klaus Rehkämper) Magdeburg: Scriptum Verlag.
1998: Image - image perception - image processing. Interdisciplinary contributions to image science. (Ed. With Klaus Rehkämper) Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag (new edition 2000).
1995: Images in the spirit. On the cognitive and epistemological function of pictorial representations. , Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.
1993: Philosophical Psychology in the 19th Century. Their origin and history of the problem. , Freiburg / Munich: Alber. ISBN 3-495-47745-4

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SURNAME	Sachs-Hombach, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hattingen / Ruhr