Peter Hacker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Hacker (2013)

Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born July 15, 1939 in London ) is an English philosopher who became known as a Wittgenstein specialist and who has worked closely with the Australian brain researcher Max R. Bennett to clarify the conceptual foundations of neuroscience .

education

To 1963 Peter Hacker studied 1960 philosophy , politics and economics at Queen's College of the University in Oxford . 1963 to 1965 he was a senior scholar at St Antony's College there . Here he began under the supervision of Professor HLA Hart with his dissertation "Rules and Duties", which he in 1966 for a year as a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College with the promotion to Ph.D. could complete.

Academic positions

Peter Hacker has been a faculty member in the Faculty of Arts at Oxford University since 1963 and teaches at St John's College . He taught as visiting professor at Makerere College in Uganda in 1968 , at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1973 and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , USA in 1974 , as Milton C. Scott Visiting Professor at Queen's University in Kingston , Canada in 1985 and again in 1986 at Swarthmore College mentioned. From 1985 to 1987 he held a research professorship in the humanities, to which he had been elected by the British Academy - "The National Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences". From 1991 to 1994 he was able to rely on the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research fellowship .

Editorships

Since 1993 Peter Hacker has been co-editor of the journal Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, Oxford) and since 1994 a member of the international co-editor committee of the Wittgenstein Studies of the German Ludwig Wittgenstein Society eV, Passau. From 1997 to 2003 he was co-editor of the 20th Century Philosophers - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from 1998 to 2003 curator of the Wittgenstein Papers and member of the editorial committee; since 2003 he has been a member and secretary of the advisory committee of the Wittgenstein Editors .

Fonts

Book publications

  • 1972 Insight and Illusion : Wittgenstein on Philosophy and the Metaphysics of Experience. Clarendon Press, Oxford (wide ed. 1986, 1989, 1997 Thoemmes Press, Bristol) ISBN 1-85506-537-1 (Jap. 1981)
    • 1978 insight and deception . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt
  • 1977 with J. Raz (Eds.): Law, Morality and Society . Essays in Honor of HLA Hart . Clarendon Press, Oxford ISBN 0-19-824557-2
  • 1980 with GP Baker: (I) Wittgenstein - Understanding and Meaning . Blackwell, Oxford and Chicago Univ. Press, Chicago; ²2005 ISBN 1-4051-0176-8
  • 1984 with GP Baker: Frege - Logical Excavations . Blackwell, Oxford & Oxford United Press, NY
  • 1984 with GP Baker: Language, Sense and Nonsense. A critical investigation into modern theories of language. Blackwell, Oxford ISBN 0-631-13519-7 (jap. 2000)
  • 1984 with GP Baker: Skepticism, Rules and Language. Blackwell, Oxford ISBN 0-631-13614-2
  • 1985 with GP Baker: (II) Wittgenstein - Rules, Grammar, and Necessity . Blackwell, Oxford & Cambridge, Mass. ISBN 0-631-13024-1
  • 1987 Appearance and Reality. A philosophical investigation into perception and perceptual qualities. Blackwell, Oxford ISBN 0-631-15704-2
  • 1990 (III) Wittgenstein - Meaning and Mind . Blackwell, Oxford & Cambridge, Mass. ISBN 0-631-18739-1
  • 1996 (IV) Wittgenstein - Mind and Will. Blackwell, Oxford ISBN 0-631-18739-1
  • 1996 Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy . Blackwell, Oxford & Cambridge, Mass. ISBN 0-631-20098-3
    • 1997 Wittgenstein in the context of analytical philosophy . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt
  • 1997 Wittgenstein on Human Nature . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (Polish 1997, Spanish 1998, Chinese and Portuguese 1999, French and Finnish 2000, Hebrew, Greek and Korean 2001); repr. in: Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael (Eds.): The Great Philosophers - from Socrates to Turing . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2000
  • 2001 Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies . Clarendon, Oxford ISBN 0-19-924569-X
  • 2003 with Max Bennett : Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience . Blackwell, Oxford & Malden, Mass. ISBN 1-4051-0855-X
  • 2007 with Max Bennett, Daniel Dennett and John Searle : Neuroscience and Philosophy. Brain, Mind and Language. Columbia Univ. Press, New York ISBN 0-231-14044-4
    • 2010 Neuroscience and Philosophy . Brain, mind and language. (Introduction and conclusion by Daniel Robinson, translation by Joachim Schulte) Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin ISBN 978-3-518-58542-9
  • 2007 Human Nature - The Categorial Framework. Blackwell, Oxford
  • 2008 with Max Bennett: A History of Cognitive Neuroscience. - A conceptual investigation. (Complement to: Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience ) Wiley-Blackwell Publ., Oxford

items

  • 1982 with GP Baker: The Grammar of Psychology : Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Language and Communication 2, pp. 227-244; repr. in: S. Shanker (Ed.): Ludwig Wittgenstein - Critical Assessments. Croom Helm, London 1986, Vol. 2, pp. 352-372.
  • 1987 Languages, Minds and Brain. in: C. Blakemore and S. Greenfield (Eds.): Mindwaves. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 485-506.
  • 1991 Experimental Methods and Conceptual Confusion : An Investigation into RL Gregory's Theory of Perception. Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 40, pp. 289-314.
  • 1995 Helmholtz's Theory of Perception. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 9, pp. 199-214; repr. in: Review Roumaine de Philosophie 40, 1996, pp. 227-246
  • 1996 On Davidson's Idea of ​​a Conceptual Scheme. The Philosophical Quarterly, 46, pp. 289-307
  • 1998 Analytic Philosophy - What, Whence and Whither? in: A. Matar and A. Biletsky (Eds.): The Story of Analytic Philosophy - Plot and Heroes. Routledge, London, pp. 1-32; repr. in: Chinese journal, World Philosophy. 3, 1996 and in: Chen Bo (Ed.): Analytic Philosophy - Reviews and Reflections. Sichun Education Publishing House, Beijing 2001
  • 2000 Carnap's “Overcoming Metaphysics” German Journal for Philosophy 48, 3, pp. 469–486; repr. 2001 (see above) udT On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics through the Logical Analysis of Language.
  • 2001 with Max Bennett: Perception and memory in neuroscience : A conceptual analysis. Progress in Neurobiology, 66, pp. 499-543
  • 2001 want to understand . in: Joachim Schulte and Uwe Justus Wenzel (eds.): What is a "philosophical" problem? Fischer, Frankfurt, pp. 54-71.
  • 2002 with Max Bennett: The motor system in neuroscience : A history and analysis of conceptual developments. Progress in Neurobiology 67, pp. 1-52
  • 2004 Clarity and clear representations . German journal for philosophy 52, pp. 405-420.
  • 2005 with Max Bennett: Emotion and cortical-subcortical function : Conceptual developments. Progress in Neurobiology 75, pp. 29-52
  • 2006 with Max Bennett: Philosophy and Neuroscience. in: Dieter Sturma (Ed.): Philosophy and Neurosciences. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt, pp. 20-42 ( stw 1770 ) ISBN 3-518-29370-2

Interviews

  • 2004 brain researchers looked at the mouth. Interview with Armin Scholtz. Brain & Mind 5, pp. 43–45 (online here ; PDF file; 90 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer
  2. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer , review by (PDF file; 61 kB) Geert Keil
  3. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer
  4. ↑ Announcement of the publisher
  5. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer
  6. ↑ Translation and editing of chap. 14.4 and 14.5 from Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hacker, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan; Hacker, Peter MS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English philosopher at St. John's College, Oxford
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH London