Rudiger Bittner

Rüdiger Bittner (born March 19, 1945 ) is a German philosopher and has been a professor of philosophy at Bielefeld University since 1991 .

Career

Bittner studied philosophy , German and political science at the universities of Tübingen (1964–1966), FU Berlin (1966–1967), Heidelberg (1967–1970) and Harvard (1971–1972). In 1970 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a dissertation on Kant's concept of dialectics and then worked as a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar in Heidelberg. 1979–1981 he was dramaturge at the Basel theaters . In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on "Moral demands and own laws" and was then a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in Princeton until 1986 . From 1987 to 1988 he took over a professorship for philosophy at the University of Hildesheim and from 1989 to 1991 at Yale . Bittner has been Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University since 1991 .

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In his 2001 work Doing Things for Reasons , Bittner advocates the thesis that when asked about reasons for action, the respondents give facts as an answer and not, as is widely claimed, mental states. So when asked why she hit Peter, for example, Anne doesn't answer "Because I had to let off steam in my anger and the hit was my most suitable form of expression depending on the situation", but something like "He hit me too".

literature

• About the meaning of Immanuel Kant's dialectic. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1970.
• Materials on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason , edited together with Konrad Cramer, Frankfurt (Suhrkamp) 1975.
• The aesthetic judgment. Contributions to language-analytical aesthetics , published together with Peter Pfaff, Cologne (Kiepenheuer) 1977.
• Moral imperative or autonomy. Freiburg / Munich (Alber) 1983.
  • in Spanish translation: Mandato moral o autonomía. Barcelona / Caracas (Alfa) 1988.
  • in English translation: What Reason Demands. Cambridge University Press 1989.
• Grazer Philosophische Studien 61 (2001), main focus: Agents and Their Actions , edited together with John Hyman and Ralf Stoecker
• Doing Things for Reasons. New York (Oxford University Press) 2001.
  • in German translation: Act for reasons. Berlin / New York (de Gruyter) 2005
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Writings from the Late Notebooks. (Editor), Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2003.
• Fictions of Justice , edited together with Susanne Kaul, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Bittner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Bittner at Bielefeld University