Markus Gabriel

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Markus Gabriel at a TEDx conference , Munich 2013

Markus Gabriel (born April 6, 1980 in Remagen ) is a German philosopher . He has been teaching as a professor at the University of Bonn since 2009 .

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Gabriel studied philosophy , classical philology , modern German literature and German studies in Hagen , Bonn and Heidelberg . There he did his doctorate in 2005 under Jens Halfwassen on Schelling 's late philosophy . In 2005 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Lisbon , 2006–2008 temporary academic councilor in Heidelberg. In 2008 he completed his habilitation on skepticism and idealism in antiquity in Heidelberg . From 2008–2009 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Gabriel has been teaching epistemology and modern philosophy at the University of Bonn since July 2009 . He is a regular visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Gabriel constructs the concept of fields of meaning , of which there are an unlimited number, and provokes with the thesis that the world does not exist. While Immanuel Kant's considerations conclude that the world is fundamentally unknowable for man (the thing in itself ), Gabriel thinks that the world does not exist because it does not exist in the world or reality and there are no rules (for example a world formula ), with which all connections can be described. In 2013 he published an overall presentation of his position on ontology in the popular science volume Why there is no world . According to Catharine Diehl and Tobias Rosefeldt, Gabriel "seems to have completely escaped the fact that he himself introduced a non-existential concept as the central concept of existence in the ontology of meaningful fields".

In I Is Not the Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century from 2015, he rejected the claims of some neuroscientists to find a biological-organic explanation of thinking. The Sense of Thinking (2018) attacks the expectation that artificial intelligence would ever be able to think. With these positions, Gabriel's New Realism is close to speculative realism .

Gabriel is married and has two daughters.

public perception

Gabriel on desire at Ethik2go (2016)

Gabriel became known to a wider public especially through his collaboration with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek , with whom he published a book in 2009 on mythology , madness and laughter in German idealism . While some saw the not new but successful attempt in his trilogy, clear and suitable for mass production prepare fundamental philosophical questions "at a high level", criticized other's work as a " sham ", the "fierce between a pleasurable mental exercise and a cheap piece of Self Help" change and in the "Gabriel as an intellectual is a poor figure".

The American philosopher John Searle said in 2016 that Markus Gabriel was "currently the best philosopher in Germany". Searle takes a position close to Gabriel's New Realism.

Christian Weidemann from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum pointed out in a review of Gabriel's book Moral Progress in Dark Times many factual errors and called Gabriel a "careless thinker".

Gabriel appeared more and more on radio and TV broadcasts in the course of his book publications. The German satirical magazine Titanic dedicated an article to him in the course of his statements on the COVID-19 pandemic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catharine Diehl, Tobias Rosefeldt: Answer to Gabriel . In: Thomas Buchheim (Ed.): Neutral Realism: Yearbook Controversies 2 . Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-495-48847-8 , p. 234 .
  2. ↑ Markus Gabriel: Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. University of Bonn , 2020, accessed on July 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: The Heidegger vehicle is still running pretty well. In: FAZ.net . July 23, 2013, accessed February 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Bert Rebhandl : Deceptive pack of a cognitive optimist. In: The Standard . September 2, 2013, accessed February 15, 2019.
  5. ↑ Radical Center. In: The time . August 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ In an interview with Christine Brinck . In: FAS . No. 34, August 28, 2016, p. 44.
  7. ^ Ethics bestseller Verriss. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Broadcast 08/25/2015 | SWR | Does the world exist? And if so, how? In: Planet Knowledge . May 20, 2015, accessed April 1, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Leo Fischer: "At some point we have to go to bed again" - Interview with star philosopher Markus Gabriel | TITANIC - The definitive satirical magazine. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Remagen