Philosophia publishing house

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The Philosophia Verlag in Munich is a German scientific publisher with the Department of Philosophy .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1966 by Lutz Geldsetzer and Wilhelm Schütte based in Düsseldorf. On June 30, 1980, the publisher Ulrich Staudinger acquired 100 percent of the GmbH shares and relocated the publisher's headquarters to Munich. With the takeover of the publishing house, the program lines were realigned. Spiritus Rector and founding editor of the most important series became Hans Burkhardt , adjunct professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until his death in 2015 .

The publishing house specializes in works in the tradition of exact philosophy: Aristotle and his school, scholasticism , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and modern analytical philosophy . The languages ​​of publication are German and English, in recent years mainly English. Since 2010, all titles have also been published and some exclusively as e-books. In 2016 the publisher celebrated its 50th anniversary.

After the death of Hans Burkhardt in 2015, Ulrich Staudinger changed the generations as a publisher and with Stamatios Gerogiorgakis, Guido Imaguire and Christina Schneider, three connoisseurs of the exact philosophy were closely tied to the publisher. You have been accompanying the publisher's program work as a Scientific Board since 2016. Benjamin Andrae, who received his doctorate in 2014 from the University of Philosophy in Munich, has been a member of the publishing house management since 2017. The aforementioned actors add new academic and editorial accents to the program.

Publishing program

The publishing program is essentially structured in rows. Well-known in the professional world are Philosophia Analytica with historical and systematic studies on logic , ontology and philosophy of language as well as the Philosophia Introductiones with introductions to these areas.

A publishing achievement was the publication of all works of the jurist and philosopher Adolf Reinach, who died in the First World War . Reinach is considered by some experts as the forerunner of the so-called speech act theory, which only made a “career” in Anglo-Saxon philosophy decades after Reinach's untimely death ( John Langshaw Austin and John Searle ). In his extensive (English) foreword to “Complete Works” by Reinach, John F. Crosby elaborates this aspect for the first time.

Another editorial project was the " Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology ". The compendium contains around 500 independent articles and is based on the maxim that “the history of metaphysics and current work on metaphysics and ontology are mutually beneficial”, according to the editors Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. The “Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology” was followed in 2017 by the “Handbook of Mereology ”, which is comparable in terms of editorial concept and scope .

In the Philosophia Basic Philosophical Concepts series , collections of essays dealing with basic philosophical terms and topics appear as first published. In the Internet edition Philosophia Contributions to Philosophy , the individual contributions from the Basic Philosophical Concepts and other contributions from the various areas of exact philosophy can be downloaded as PDF files.

The Philosophia Analytica Liber Conversus series is designed to complement the Philosophia Analytica series . This is geared towards translations of medieval and post-medieval texts from the disciplines of logic, ontology and philosophy of language. In addition, there are texts by doctors and natural philosophers with sometimes modern-looking treatises on biological and medical problems.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Staudinger on whoswho.de , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Report on the 50th birthday of Philosophia Verlag on buchmarkt.de , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ Stamatios Gerogiogakis: Bayesian Theism and the interpretation of Bayesian Probabilities . In: Anselm Ramelow (Ed.): God, Reason and Reality . Philosophia, Munich 2014, p. 127-145 .
  4. ↑ Stamatios Gerogiogakis: Philosophical Ristretti. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Guido Imaguire, Dale Jacquette (Ed.): Possible Worlds . Philosophia, Munich 2010.
  6. ↑ Guido Imaguire: The Platonism vs. Nominalism Debate from a Metametaphysical Perspective. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Christina Schneider: Creativity in the field of tension between determination and combinatorics in Leibniz 'metaphysics. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  8. ^ Benjamin Andrae: The Ontology of Intensionality . Philosophia, Munich 2014.
  9. ↑ Paul Gorner: Adolf Reinach: Complete Works. Text-critical edition (2 volumes) eds. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith. In: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Volume 25, Number 3, 1994.
  10. ↑ James DuBois: Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. In: Review of Metaphysics. Volume 47, 1993, pp. 391-392.
  11. ^ Stanley Paulson, in: Philosophical Books. Volume 44, Number 2, 2003, pp. 135-153.
  12. ↑ Preview of the Handbook of Mereology (with index)