Stephan Schmid (philosopher)

Stephan Schmid is a Swiss philosopher .

Life

From 2003 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy at the University of Basel . From 2004 to 2006 he was a student assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2009 he became a research assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In autumn 2012 he was visiting scholar at the University of Toronto . In spring 2013 he was a visiting scholar at Yale University . In June 2015, he turned down the offer of Assistant Professor for Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Chicago . Since spring 2016 he has been teaching as professor for the history of philosophy at Hamburg University .

Fonts (selection)

• Final causes in the early modern era. An investigation into the transformation of teleological explanations (= sources and studies on philosophy, volume 99). De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-024665-0 (also dissertation, HU Berlin 2010).
• with Dominik Perler (Ed.): Final Causes and Teleological Explanations (= Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy Volume 14). Mentis, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 3-89785-163-6 .
• with Barbara Vetter (Ed.): Dispositions. Texts from the contemporary debate (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft Volume 2092). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-29692-9 .
• (Ed.): Philosophy of mind in the late middle ages and renaissance (= The history of the philosophy of mind Volume 3). Routledge, London / New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-24394-1 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid on the website of the University of Hamburg