Michael Pauen

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Michael Pauen (born February 19, 1956 in Krefeld ) is a German philosopher and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin .

Career

Michael Pauen's main areas of work are the philosophy of the mind and the philosophy of culture . He studied in Marburg , Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg and was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Amherst, Massachusetts , Fellow at Cornell University and the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst . In 1997 he received the Ernst Bloch Prize .

In the philosophy of mind, Pauen has distinguished himself in particular through an argument for identity theory . This boils down to equating mental and neural states. The identity theory was developed in the 1950s by Ullin Place and John Smart . It quickly became unpopular because it is disputed whether it is compatible with multiple realization .

Pauen takes a compatibilist position in the freedom debate . So he claims that freedom and determinism are not mutually exclusive. His position is similar to the theses of Ansgar Beckermann , Peter Bieri and Daniel Dennett .

Pauen's writings on the philosophy of culture deal in particular with the tradition of cultural pessimism .

literature

Monographs

  • Bell ringing or revelation. Rationality and aesthetic pleasure in German art theories up to the modern age (= art history - theory and method. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster et al. 1991, ISBN 3-88660-771-2 (At the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1989).
  • Dithyrambic of doom. Gnosticism in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Modernity. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002659-6 .
  • Pessimism. Philosophy of history, metaphysics and modernity from Nietzsche to Spengler. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003094-1 .
  • with Karl Hoheisel: Lectures from the conference: Gnosis and the spirituality of postmodernism. (To assess modern currents as Gnostic). (= Hofgeismar lectures. Vol. 7, ISSN  0931-0398 ). Evangelical Academy, Hofgeismar 1997.
  • The riddle of consciousness. An explanatory strategy. Mentis, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-89785-087-7 .
  • Basic problems of the philosophy of mind. An introduction (= Fischer 14568). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14568-6 .
  • Illusion freedom? Possible and impossible consequences of brain research. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-061910-2 .
  • what is the human? The discovery of the nature of the mind. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04224-8 .
  • with Gerhard Roth : freedom, guilt and responsibility. Basic features of a naturalistic theory of free will (= Edition Unseld. 12). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-26012-8 .
  • with Harald Welzer : Autonomy. A defense. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002250-9 .
  • The nature of the mind. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002408-4 .
  • The widespread idea that an adequate description of phenomenal consciousness can only be achieved from the first-person perspective is wrong in: Matthias Eckoldt Can consciousness be conscious? Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8497-0202-1
  • Power and social intelligence. Why modern societies threaten to fail. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 9783103973327 .

Editing

  • with Heiner F. Klemme, Bernd Ludwig and Werner Stark: Enlightenment and interpretation. Studies on the philosophy of Kant and its surroundings. Conference on the occasion of Reinhard Brandt's 60th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1630-0 .
  • with Gerald Funk and Gert Mattenklott : Aesthetics of the like. On the poetics and art philosophy of the modern age (= Fischer 15003). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15003-5 .
  • with Gerhard Roth: Neuroscience and Philosophy. An introduction (= UTB 2208). Fink, Stuttgart ISBN 3-8252-2208-X .
  • with Achim Stephan : Phenomenal Consciousness - Return of Identity Theory? Mentis, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-89785-094-X .
  • with Christoph Herrmann , Jochen W. Rieger and Silke Schicktanz: Awareness. Philosophy, Neuroscience, Ethics (= UTB 2686). Fink, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4185-5 .
  • with Michael Schütte and Alexander Staudacher: Concept, explanation, awareness. New contributions to the qualia problem. Mentis, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-395-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pauen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld