Regine Kather
Regine Kather (born April 6, 1955 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .
biography
Kather studied philosophy , physics and religious studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , Basel and Paris . In 1989 she did her doctorate in philosophy, her habilitation followed in 1997. Since 1985 she has been teaching in Freiburg, Bremen and Hagen ; since 1998 also in Bucharest and Cluj (Romania). In addition, Kather often gives radio lectures in which she presents philosophical topics in a generally understandable manner.
Her main research interests are natural philosophy , anthropology , cosmology , the mind-body problem , religious philosophy and ethics, as well as issues at the border areas between empirical natural sciences and metaphysics . In terms of content, Kather takes a position that is closely linked to the process philosophy . It ties in with the positions of Leibniz , Whitehead , Scheler , Cassirer , Plessner and Jonas . She is systematically interested in the topics of ' time ', the determinations of ' life ' and the development of a contemporary understanding of ' nature ', taking into account the ecological problem.
Publications (monographs)
- About language in general and about human language. Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language , Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York and Paris: Lang 1989.
- Time and eternity. The multi-dimensionality of human experience , Würzburg: Ergon 1992.
- Cosmology in the 20th Century , double course unit of a teaching letter from the Distance University of Hagen, Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, Course 3348-3-01-S1, Hagen, 1994.
- Man - child of nature or of the spirit? Paths to a holistic view of nature , Würzburg: Ergon 1994.
- Orders of reality. The critique of philosophical cosmology on the mechanistic paradigm , Würzburg: Ergon 1998.
- Divine breath or artificial soul? The mind in the sights of various disciplines , Stuttgart: Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart 2000.
- What is life Philosophical positions and perspectives , Darmstadt: WBG 2003.
- Person. The justification of human identity , Darmstadt: WBG 2007. ( Table of contents ; PDF; 69 kB)
- Hildegard von Bingen read interculturally , Nordhausen: Bautz 2007.
- The rediscovery of nature. Natural philosophy under the sign of the ecological crisis , Darmstadt: WBG 2012.
As co-editor:
- Hamid Reza Yousefi , Klaus Fischer (philosopher) , Regine Kather and Peter Gerdsen (eds.): Paths to culture. Similarities - differences. Interdisciplinary dimensions , Nordhausen: Bautz 2008.
As a translator:
- Anne Foerst: About robots, humans and God. Artificial intelligence and the existential dimension of life , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008.
- Ian G. Barbour: Science meets religion. Opponents, strangers, partners? , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010.
Web links
- Homepage of Regine Kather
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- Literature by and about Regine Kather in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kather, Regine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen-Buer |