Marcus Willaschek

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Marcus Willaschek (* 1962 in Arnsberg ) is a German philosopher . He is mainly concerned with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as epistemology , theories of rationality and metaphysics .

Life

At the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg, he passed his Abitur in 1982 and then studied philosophy from 1984 to 1991 with the minor subjects biology, law and psychology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. From 1988 to 1991 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . In 1991 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Münster under Peter Rohs . His dissertation was published in 1992 under the title Practical Reason. Action theory and moral justification published by Kant . In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the University of Münster. His habilitation thesis was published in 2003 under the title The mental access to the world. Realism, skepticism and intentionality published and reissued in 2015.

A position as a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Münster (1995-2001) was followed by several substitute professorships at the Universities of Essen, Frankfurt am Main and Siegen. Since 2003 Willaschek has held the professorship for Modern Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

In addition, Willaschek was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1992 to 1994 . During the same period he also received a grant from the German Research Foundation . He also attended the University of California, Berkeley for research purposes between 2009 and 2010 . In 2012 and 2014 he spent a few months as a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego . In 2015 he was visiting professor at Keiō University in Tokyo. Another visiting professor followed in 2016 at Osaka University in Japan .

Memberships

Willaschek belongs to a number of specialist societies and research alliances. This includes memberships in the German Society for Philosophy , Society for Analytical Philosophy and in the Kant Society . He is also an honorary member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Jurídicos Kantianos. Since 2007 he has been a Principal Investigator member of the Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders .

From 2008 to 2016 he was also a member of the Philosophy Review Board of the German Research Foundation and from 2012 to 2017 of the extended board of the German Society for Philosophy. He has been a member of the Kant commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) since 2012, a full member of the academy since 2016 and chairman of the Kant commission since 2018.

Fonts (selection)

  • Practical reason: the theory of action and the justification of morals in Kant , Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-476-00864-0 . ( Online )
  • Realism , Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-99511-7 .
  • Mental access to the world: realism, skepticism and intentionality , Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2015 (2nd edition), ISBN 9783465042334 .
  • Kant-Lexikon , 3 volumes, (edited with G. Mohr, J. Stolzenberg and St. Bacin), de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2015, ISBN 9783110172591 .
  • Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, ISBN 9781108472630 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Practical reason, action theory and moral justification in Kant. (PDF) In: uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved August 5, 2015 .
  2. ^ Admin: Marcus Willaschek - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Accessed September 2, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Willaschek, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg