Matthias Perkams

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Matthias Perkams (* 1971 in Bonn ) is a German philosophy historian and university lecturer . In the 2015 summer semester, he accepted a professorship for philosophy with a focus on ancient and medieval philosophy at the FSU Jena.

Life

From 1991 to 1996 he studied philosophy, Catholic theology and classical philology in Bonn, Jerusalem and Münster . From 1996 to 1997 he was a German teacher and pastor at the Jesuit grammar school in Kaunas . During his doctoral studies (1997-2000) in Bonn, he also worked in the editorial department of the Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute . After completing his habilitation in Jena from 2001 to 2007 as a member of the junior research group Late Antiquity and Byzantine Literature and the Graduate School Leitbilder der Late Antiquity , he was appointed private lecturer at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Jena in July 2006 . At the invitation of Richard Sorabji , funded by the German Research Foundation , he was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College from 2003 to 2004 . As a Heisenberg fellow (2007–2009) from the German Research Foundation, he works at the Martin Grabmann Institute and at the Chair for Christian Philosophy at LMU Munich . In the summer semester of 2009 he became an Academic Councilor for Philosophy and Classical Philology (focus on ancient and medieval philosophy) at the University of Jena. He turned down the calls to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Catholic Private University Linz in 2014 .

Research and Teaching

His research interests are ancient and medieval philosophy, especially the Aristotelian tradition, philosophy of late antiquity and the 12th / 13th centuries. Century, ethics and theory of action, especially practical rationality and will, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of mind, basic questions of metaphysics, development of the understanding of philosophy in antiquity and the Middle Ages and philosophy in the Christian Orient and the Arab world.

Fonts (selection)

  • Love as the central concept of ethics according to Peter Abelard (= contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages. New series. Volume 58). Aschendorff, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-04009-3 (also dissertation, Bonn 2001).
  • as editor with Rosa Maria Piccione : Selecta colligere, 1st files of the colloquium "Collecting, rearranging, new creation. Methods of transmission of texts in late antiquity and in Byzantium" . (= Hellenica. Volume 11). Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2003, ISBN 88-7694-683-7 .
  • as editor with Rosa Maria Piccione: Selecta colligere, II. Contributions to the technique of collecting and compiling Greek texts from antiquity to humanism . (= Hellenica. Volume 18). Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2005, ISBN 88-7694-885-6 .
  • as editor with Jörn Müller and Tobias Hoffmann : The problem of weak will in medieval philosophy. The Problem of Weakness of Will in Medieval Philosophy (= Bibliotheca des Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales. Volume 8). Peeters, Leuven / Paris / Dudley 2006, ISBN 90-429-1779-2 .
  • as editor with Rosa Maria Piccione: Proklos. Method, theory of the soul, metaphysics. Files from the conference in Jena on 18. – 20. September 2003 (= Philosophia antiqua. Volume 98). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 90-04-15084-6 .
  • as editor: Siger von Brabant, On the doctrine of the intellect according to Aristotle. Quaestiones in tertium De anima. In addition to two averroistic answers to Thomas Aquinas (= Herder's philosophical library of the Middle Ages. Volume 12). Herder, Freiburg et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29033-6 .
  • Self-confidence in late antiquity. The Neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle's De anima (= sources and studies on philosophy. Volume 85). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020492-6 (also habilitation thesis, Jena 2006).
  • as editor: Peter Abelard, Theologia Scholarium (= Herder's philosophical library of the Middle Ages. Volume 24). Herder, Freiburg et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-34003-1 .
  • as editor with Heidrun Eichner and Christian Schäfer : Islamic Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A manual . WBG, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-22357-2 .
  • as editor with Jörn Müller and Tobias Hoffmann: Aquinas and the Nicomachean ethics . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-00267-8 .
  • as editor: Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Sententia Libri Ethicorum I and X. Latin-German (= Herder's philosophical library of the Middle Ages. Volume 33). Herder, Freiburg et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-34048-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ forschung-und-lehre.de: Habilitations and Appointments 8/2014 ( Memento of September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Perkams, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn