Michael Hampe (philosopher)

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Michael Hampe (born June 18, 1961 in Hanover ) is a German philosopher who holds a professorship at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Michael Hampe studied philosophy, psychology and German at the universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg , where he graduated in 1984. He then studied biology in Heidelberg from 1984 to 1989 , where he was particularly interested in neurobiology and genetics. He received his doctorate in 1989 and completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1994.

From 1990 to 1992 he was visiting professor for philosophy at Trinity College in Dublin , 1994 and 1995 member of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . He then lectured at the University of Kassel (1997–1999) and at the University of Bamberg (1999–2003). On October 1, 2003, Hampe took up his professorship at the ETH Zurich . Here he teaches in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and was a member of the Center for the History of Knowledge from 2005–2016.

The focus of work is the history of philosophy in the early modern period, especially Hobbes and Spinoza , the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and pragmatism . Against this background, he also deals with the relationship between claims, justifications and narratives in philosophy and literature. Hampe examines historically and systematically the consequences of the hypothesis that the world consists of stories of individual things. Such a particularism would go hand in hand with a nominalism such as that represented by Thomas Hobbes and Nelson Goodman in modern philosophy, and it would give narrative, which is constantly revised in the description of the individual beings of the world, a higher cognitive value than is currently scientifically shaped Cultures is the case. Against this background, language should be interpreted as a tool that has been developed in communities of individual human beings. In this context, Hampe criticizes the focus of philosophy on “broad terms” such as “happiness”, “freedom”, “nature” and “reason” in some works of narrative philosophy. Many investigations following the generic terms mentioned, which lead to “theories”, “nature”, “happiness” or “reason” lead, as he found following John Dewey, to simplistic and therefore misleading and essentialist views the stories of individuals.

Fonts

  • The perceptions of the organisms. On the premises of a naturalistic theory of experience in Whitehead's metaphysics . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-30500-1 (= dissertation University of Heidelberg 1988/1989, 294 pages, 24 cm)
  • (Ed. :) In the web of habit. A philosophical reader . Junius, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-217-8
  • Law and distance. Studies on the principles of regularity in theoretical and practical philosophy . Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0421-3 (= partial print of laws , Habil. Heidelberg 1993)
  • Alfred North Whitehead . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-41947-X
  • Necessity, experiment, chance . Kassel Philosophical Writings Vol. 4. Kassel 1999
  • (Ed. :) "The experiences that we have speak against the experiences that we have". About forms of experience in the sciences . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-10096-4
  • (Ed. :) Laws of Nature . Mentis, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-89785-410-4
  • Knowledge and Practice. On the philosophy of pragmatism . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-29376-1 ( review )
  • The power of chance. How to deal with risk . Siedler, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937989-23-4
  • (Ed. :) Baruch de Spinoza: Ethics presented in a geometric order . Academy, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004126-9
  • A little history of the concept of natural law . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29464-2
  • The perfect life. Four meditations on happiness . Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23428-4 ; dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-34681-8
  • Tunguska or The End of Nature . Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23767-4
  • The lessons of philosophy. A criticism . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-58605-1
  • The third enlightenment. Berlin 2018: Nicolai Publishing & Intelligence GmbH, 91 pages, ISBN 978-3-96476-002-9
  • The wilderness, the soul, the nothing. About real life. Hanser, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26577-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. see "The teachings of philosophy. A Review ”from 2014.
  2. ↑ cf. Collective power and semantic autonomy: language, technology and enlightenment. In Hastedt (ed.): Macht und Reflexion, pp. 121–141.
  3. ↑ cf. The perfect life and Tunguska
  4. ↑ Cf. Teachings of Philosophy, Chapter 11
  5. ^ "A call to freedom" , review by Thomas Palzer on Deutschlandfunk from December 10, 2014, accessed December 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Hampe, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover