Thomas Buchheim

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Thomas Buchheim (born October 19, 1957 in Munich ) is a full professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Thomas Buchheim is the son of the political scientist Hans Buchheim and attended the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz . He then studied philosophy , Greek philology and sociology in Munich from 1977 to 1983 . In 1984 he was in by Robert Spaemann supervised work on the Greek sophistry doctorate . Thomas Buchheim also worked at Spaemann as a research assistant until 1992 and completed his habilitation in 1991 on the philosophy of the late Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling .

After a visiting professorship in Halle , he became professor in Mainz in 1993 . Since 2000 he has been professor for philosophy , especially for metaphysics and ontology , at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Thomas Buchheim has been co-editor since 2002 and managing editor of the Philosophical Yearbook of the Görres Society since 2005 and has been a board member of the Society for Ancient Philosophy and a member of the commission for the publication of Schelling's writings of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2001 . From 2002 to 2005 he headed the research project " Freedom based on nature? " Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . - Modeling a qualitative concept of freedom beyond determinism and indeterminism ”. From 2010 to 2013 he was chairman of the Society for Ancient Philosophy. In 2013 he was an international visiting professor at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyōto State University . Buchheim deals intensively with the mind-body problem and the problem of free will .

Publications

  • The sophistry as the avant-garde of normal life , Meiner, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-7873-0687-9 .
  • One of all. The self-restraint of idealism in Schelling's late philosophy , Meiner, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-7873-1025-8 .
  • The pre-Socratics. A philosophical portrait , Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-406-38535-3 .
  • Aristoteles , Herder, Freiburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-451-04764-0 .
  • What are metaphysical questions? (= Inaugural lecture at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on June 30, 2000). In: V. Hösle (Ed.): Metaphysik. Challenges and opportunities. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt 2002, ISBN 3-7728-2205-3 , pp. 99-115.
  • Libertarian Compatibilism. Three alternative theses on the way to a qualitative understanding of human freedom. In: F. Hermanni, P. Koslowski (Hrsg.): The free and the unfree will. Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-4055-7 , pp. 34-76.
  • Our desire for freedom. Not a dream, but a drama with a future. Meiner, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-7873-1778-3 .
  • Neuron fire and soul act. A Neo-Aristotelian Proposal for Understanding Mental Causality. In: Philosophical Yearbook. 119 (2012), ISSN  0031-8183 , pp. 332-246 (= initiative contribution to the yearbook conference on the subject of mental causality).

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personal data
SURNAME Buchheim, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich