Richard Schantz

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Richard Schantz (born September 14, 1950 in Zweibrücken ) is a German philosopher and was professor of philosophy at the University of Siegen from 2000 to 2016 .

Life

Schantz studied philosophy, English and German at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1972 to 1979 . In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation: "The sensual content of perception". This was followed by teaching assignments and the representation of an assistant at the Philosophical Department of Heidelberg University. From 1985 to 1991 Schantz was Ernst Tugendhat's academic assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . For the next three years he worked (also there) as a research assistant in the philosophy of science at Carlos Ulises Moulines .

In 1996 Schantz completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis “Truth, Reference and Realism. A study on the philosophy of language and metaphysics ”. Until 1999 he worked as a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and has meanwhile represented professorships at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Siegen.

From January 2000 to 2016 Schantz was professor for the history of philosophy and for the systematic focus on philosophy of language / analytical philosophy at the University of Siegen.

research

Schantz's research focuses on the entire spectrum of theoretical philosophy . In particular, he deals with the philosophy of language, epistemology , metaphysics , the philosophy of mind , logic and the philosophy of science .

Schantz is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Metaphysica" and "Ontologica", editor of the book series Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter) and co-editor of the book series Philosophische Analyze / Philosophical Analysis (Frankfurt, Munich, New York: Ontos-Verlag).

Fonts

Monographs

  • The sensual content of perception , Munich - Hamden, Philosophia, Vienna 1990.
  • Truth, reference and realism . A study on the philosophy of language and metaphysics, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1996.

Editorships

Articles (selection)

  • Verificationism and Realism in the Philosophy of Pragmatism. A Study on Peirce and James. In: Journal for Philosophical Research. 3, 1998, pp. 363-382.
  • The role of sensory experience in epistemic justification. A problem for coherentism. In: Knowledge. 50, 1999, pp. 177-191.
  • Truth, Correspondence, and Reference. How Deflationists diverge from Tarski. In: Andre Chapuis, Anil Gupta (Ed.): Circularity, Definition, and Truth, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 2000, pp. 317-331.
  • How vivid is the sensory perception? In: Philosophia naturalis . 37, 2000, pp. 59-76.
  • Object consciousness and self-consciousness in Kant. A study on the paralogisms of pure reason. In: Graz Philosophical Studies. 60, 2000, pp. 151-169.
  • Truth and Reference. In: Synthesis. 126, 2001, pp. 261-281.
  • The Given Regained. Reflections on the Sensuous Content of Experience. In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 62, 2001, pp. 167-180.
  • Why Truth is not an Epistemic Concept. In: Geo Siegwart, Dirk Greimann (Ed.): Truth and Speech Acts. Routledge, New York / London 2007, pp. 307-320.
  • From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions. In: Richard Schantz (Ed.): Prospects for Meaning. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, pp. 259–286.

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