Matthias Gatzemeier

Matthias Gatzemeier (born February 10, 1937 in Haselünne , Emsland district ) is a German philosopher with a focus on practical philosophy , philosophy of science and philosophy of technology . He is part of the Erlanger-Konstanz school of constructivism founded by Paul Lorenzen .

Act

Gatzemeier attended the Progymnasium run by the Marist Fathers in Meppen from 1948 to 1954 and then switched to the classical high school in Fürstenzell near Passau, where he graduated from high school in 1957. He began his studies in 1957 at the private Marist College in Fürstenzell. In 1958 he moved to the University of Münster with the subjects philosophy , classical philology , theology and education . There he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1967 with Friedrich Kaulbach and Heinrich Dörrie on The Natural Philosophy of Straton von Lampsakos . He completed his assistantship with a habilitation under Friedrich Kambartel at the University of Konstanz in 1973 with a thesis on the problem of the scientific nature of theology, which he published in two volumes. He has also published works on the theory of the history of science.

From 1973 he was initially a private lecturer in Konstanz and in the 1974 summer semester was a substitute for an H-2 professorship in Hamburg. Since 1975 he has been Professor of Practical Philosophy at RWTH Aachen University . Since the late 1980s, he has also been working on the philosophy of technology. To this end, he was represented in the summer of 1989 at the University of Marburg . Gatzemeier retired in the 2001 winter semester.

Publications

• The natural philosophy of the Straton of Lampsakos. On the history of the problem of movement in the area of ​​the early peripatos . Monographs on Natural Philosophy, Vol. X, 1970
• Theology as science? , Vol. 1: “The matter of theology”, Stuttgart 1974; Vol. 2: "Critique of Science and Institutions", Stuttgart 1975
• Philosophy as the theory of rationality , analyzes and reconstructions, ed. Jürgen Villers, Vol. 1: “On the Philosophy of the Scientific World”, Würzburg 2005; Vol 2: “Reflected Practice. Norm theory and application ethics ", Würzburg 2007
• All of our alphabet. Small cultural history of the alphabet. With an excursus on the Raphael Code. In honorem Christian Stetter , Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2009

as editor

• Responsibility in science and technology , BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1989

literature

• Jürgen Villers (Ed.): Antiquity and the present. Festschrift for Matthias Gatzemeier . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-8260-2406-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Gatzemeier in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reflected Practice, 40