Markus Wild

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Markus Wild (born April 6, 1971 in Flawil ) is a Swiss philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Basel . His focus is theoretically on the philosophy of mind , philosophical anthropology and animal philosophy , historically in the philosophy of the early modern period .

Life

From 1993, Wild studied philosophy and German at the University of Basel , where he was also an assistant from 2000 and received his doctorate in 2004 on the anthropological difference in the philosophy of spirit of the early modern period. From 2004 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2012 to 2013 he taught and researched as a professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

His current work concerns Ruth Millikan's biosemantics , pragmatic conceptual theories (Sellars, Brandom) and the philosophy of embodiment ( embodied cognition ). Wild works on methodological issues such as: B. on the role of intuition in philosophy.

Markus Wild has been a member of the EKAH (Federal Commission for Genetic Engineering in the Extra-Human Area) since 2012. He has prepared an opinion on cognition and awareness in fish for the attention of the commission.

Animal philosophy

One of Wild's main research interests is the question of the spirit of "non-human animals", as they are called by philosophers.

He coined the term animal philosophy in German-speaking countries , for which he suggests three basic questions:

  1. Do nonhuman animals think?
  2. Is there a major difference between humans and other animals?
  3. How should the moral relationship between humans and other animals be shaped?

To these basic questions he finally formulates a "program of animal philosophy":

  1. Animal philosophy regards humans as animals as far as possible.
  2. Animal philosophy claims that animals have a mind.
  3. The animal philosophy claims: even as an animal man has spirit.
  4. The animal philosophy proceeds naturalistically.
  5. The animal philosophy proceeds assimilationist, i. H. it emphasizes similarities between humans and other animals.
  6. The animal philosophy does not renounce the anthropological difference.

Publications (selection)

As an author:

  • The anthropological difference. The spirit of the animals in the early modern period in Montaigne, Descartes and Hume. De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018945-3 . (Dissertation, University of Bern, 2004; online ).
  • Biosemantics. Representation, intentionality. 2010 (Habilitation thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, 2010; online )
  • Animal philosophy as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-651-4 .
  • Pisces: cognition, awareness and pain. A philosophical perspective. BBL, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-905782-09-7 ( PDF document ).
  • with Herwig Grimm: Animal ethics as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-88506-748-1 .
  • Reflection on: Johann Sebastian Bach : Get ready, my spirit . Cantata BWV 115. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Julia Doyle (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Julius Pfeifer (tenor), Sebastian Noack (bass). Including an introductory workshop. Gallus Media, 2017.

As editor:

  • with Dominik Perler : The spirit of the animals. Philosophical texts on a current discussion. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-29341-9 .
  • with Joerg Fingerhut and Rebekka Hufendiek: Philosophy of Embodiment. Basic texts for a current debate. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-29660-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wild 2010, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Wild 2010, p. 19 ff.
  3. ↑ Booklet (PDF file) on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Flawil