Uwe Meixner

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Uwe Meixner (born December 10, 1956 in Bayreuth ) is a German philosopher. His main areas of work are metaphysics , formal ontology , logic and the history of philosophy .

biography

Meixner studied philosophy, English, general linguistics and psychology at the University of Regensburg . 1979/1980 followed a one-year stay as a Fulbright scholar at Vanderbilt University , Nashville, USA. After completing his Magister Artium, in 1983 he accepted a position as a research assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy with Franz von Kutschera at the University of Regensburg, which he held until his dissertation in 1987 (on the subject of action, time, necessity ). From 1987-1993 he worked there as a research assistant and completed his habilitation in 1990 on the subject of axiomatic ontology . Since 1993 teaching positions, visiting professorships and the like for theoretical philosophy, logic , philosophy of science , cognition at various universities. Since 1997 he has been editor of the yearbook Philosophy History and Logical Analysis together with Albert Newen, and since 1998 co-editor of the magazine Metaphysica . 1997–2000 participation in the DFG project causality in the context of alternative world courses , later participation in the DFG project philosophy of ontic modalities as well as in the DFG project external view vs. Inside view: Reconstruction and comparative criticism of the philosophies of psychology by Husserl and Wittgenstein . Since the summer semester 2009 Meixner has been teaching at the University of Philosophy in Munich. With the last-mentioned research project, which led to the publication Defending Husserl (see below), Meixner had been based at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Augsburg since 2010 and held teaching positions there. Since the 2013/2014 winter semester, Meixner has been permanently employed at the Department of Philosophy with a focus on analytical philosophy and philosophy of science, which is also part of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Augsburg.

Positions

Based on his modal logical investigations, Meixner advocates the ontological thesis that there are entities that do not exist; H. which do not occur in our real, but in at least one possible world. In the philosophy of mind , Meixner advocates a moderate psychophysical dualism against the prevailing naturalistic trend today: According to Meixner, the properties of consciousness, having causal power and being the object of inner experience, speak in favor of the assumption that it is conscious or conscious Mind on the one hand and body on the other hand are two categorically different entities, whereby the ontological independence of consciousness in itself does not speak for its ability to exist even without the body. Meixner finds the reflexive experience related in consciousness to consciousness itself expressed in an exemplary manner in Edmund Husserl , which is why he contributes to the encounter between analytical philosophy and phenomenology in his relevant studies .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Action, time, necessity: an ontological-semantic investigation , De Gruyter, Berlin 1987, 234 p. (Dissertation)
  • Axiomatic Ontology , Roderer, Regensburg 1991, 395 p. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Event and substance: The metaphysics of reality and realization , Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, 389 pp.
  • Axiomatic Formal Ontology , Kluwer, Dordrecht 1997, 395 pp. (Not a mere translation of 2., but largely rewritten in English.)
  • Theory of causality. A guide to the concept of causation in two parts , mentis, Paderborn 2001, 582 p. (Printing funded by the DFG.)
  • The Two Sides of Being. A Reassessment of Psycho-Physical Dualism , mentis, Paderborn 2004, 486 pp.
  • Introduction to ontology , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, 219 pp.
  • David Lewis, mentis, Paderborn 2006, 129 pp.
  • The Theory of Ontic Modalities , ontos, Heusenstamm near Frankfurt a. M. 2006, 374 pp.
  • Modality. Possibility, necessity, essentialism , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-04050-7 , 247 pp.
  • Philosophical beginnings of quantum physics , ontos, Heusenstamm near Frankfurt a. M. 2009, 252 pp.
  • Modeling Metaphysics. The Metaphysics of a Model , ontos, Heusenstamm near Frankfurt a. M. 2010, 274 pp.
  • Defending Husserl. A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology , de Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2014, 509 pp.
  • Love and Negativity , Aschendorff, Münster 2017, 261 pp.

Anthologies

  • Classical metaphysics in the Alber texts philosophy series with introduction and bio-bibliographical notes, Alber Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 1999.
  • Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age . Files from the 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, öbv & hpt Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 2001.
  • Philosophy of Logic in the Alber Texts Philosophy series with introduction and bio-bibliographical notes, Alber Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 2002.
  • Together with Peter Simons: Contributions to the 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium: Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age , 2 volumes, 1999.
  • Together with Rafael Hüntelmann and Erwin Tegtmeier: Ontologie der Modalitäten , Röll, Dettelbach 2000.
  • Together with Albert Newen: Soul, Thinking, Consciousness , De Gruyter, Berlin 2003.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Website ' History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis'
  2. ↑ Website 'Metaphysica'
personal data
SURNAME Meixner, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth