Norman Sieroka

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Norman Sieroka (* 1974 near Worpswede ) is a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

Sieroka studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and the University of Cambridge both philosophy and physics and mathematics . In 1999 he received a Master of Philosophy in History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge, and in 2002 in Heidelberg a Diploma in Physics.

His first doctorate followed in 2004 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on neurophysiological aspects of time perception , followed by a doctorate in 2009 and his habilitation in philosophy at ETH Zurich in 2012 , where he then worked in the Department of Humanities from 2004 to 2019. , Social and Political Sciences as well as in the Department of Physics. In 2015, Sieroka was Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Science and History of Science at the University of Notre Dame .

He has been Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bremen since 2019 .

Research priorities

Sieroka's research focuses on theoretical philosophy. He works systematically on the philosophy of time, natural philosophy, epistemological motifs of the individual sciences (especially physics and mathematics), philosophy of the mind (especially phenomenology and auditory-musical perception) as well as methodical questions of the historiography of philosophy and individual science. Historically, he works on the Ionian thinkers in antiquity, Leibniz and Spinoza in the early modern period, Fichte and Schelling in classical German philosophy, and Edmund Husserl , Ernst Cassirer , Hermann Weyl and Alfred North Whitehead in the 20th century.

Sieroka is also known to the public through contributions to West German Radio , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Bayerischer Rundfunk , Saarländischer Rundfunk , Südwestrundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk , Swiss Radio SRF 2 and SRF 3 as well as 3sat .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Norman Sieroka: Philosophy of Time. Basics and perspectives . CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72787-0 (128 pages).
  • Norman Sieroka: Leibniz, Husserl, and the Brain . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015, ISBN 978-1-349-49797-3 (English, 316 pages).
  • Norman Sieroka: Philosophy of Physics. An introduction . CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66794-7 (127 pages).
  • Norman Sieroka: Surroundings. Symbolic constructivism following Hermann Weyl and Fritz Medicus . Chronos, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0340-1006-1 (416 pages).
  • Hans Günter Dosch , Volkhard Müller and Norman Sieroka: Quantum Field Theory in a Semiotic Perspective (=  writings of the mathematical and natural science class . No. 17 ). Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-28211-2 (English, 62 pages).

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Norman Sieroka: Time and Suffering. False Metaphors, (De) synchronous Times, and Internal Dynamics . In: Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds.): Space, Time, and Limits of Human Understanding . Springer, Dordrecht 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-44417-8 , pp. 371-380 (English).
  • Norman Sieroka: A Post-Kantian Approach to the Constitution of Matter . In: Gertrudis van de Vijver and Boris Demarest (eds.): Objectivity after Kant. Its Meaning, Its Limitations, Its Fateful Omissions . Olms, Hildesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-487-14897-7 , p. 41-55 (English).

Articles in trade journals

  • Norman Sieroka: Theoretical Construction in Physics . In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics . tape 61 , 2018, ISSN  0039-3681 , p. 6–17 , doi : 10.1016 / j.shpsb.2017.05.009 (English).
  • Norman Sieroka: The Bounds of Experience. Encountering Anaximander's In (de) finite . In: Ancient Philosophy . tape 37 , no. 2 , 2017, ISSN  0740-2007 , p. 243–263 , doi : 10.5840 / ancientphil201737222 (English).
  • Norman Sieroka: Phenomenal Time, Suffering and Suffering Avoidance. An inventory . In: Journal for Philosophical Research . tape 70 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN  0044-3301 , p. 47-73 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c University of Bremen. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sieroka, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH near Worpswede