Walter Hoering

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Walter Hoering (born May 22, 1933 in Tetschen , Czechoslovakia ; † August 25, 2019 ) was a German philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen . His main research interests were logic , the didactics of logic, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science .

Life

Walter Hoering attended school in the Sudetenland , which was annexed to the German Reich from 1938, until 1945, the year in which his family fled to Bavaria . There he attended schools in Weißenburg , Memmingen , Landshut and Munich until 1952 . In 1952 he finished school with the Abitur at the Ludwig Oberrealschule in Munich.

Between 1952 and 1964 Hoering studied physics and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1961 he received his doctorate in philosophy with Wolfgang Stegmüller . Minor subjects were logistics ( Wilhelm Britzelmayr ) and psychology ( Philipp Lersch ). In 1963 he completed his studies in physics and did his doctorate in physical chemistry with Georg Maria Schwab .

Between 1959 and 1978 he was assistant to Wolfgang Stegmüller, with breaks in post-graduate scholarships in Oxford , Paris and Stanford . 1966–1968: Lecturer at the University of Munich.

1978–1998: Professor at the Philosophical Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Lectures in logic, philosophy of science and in the field of analytical philosophy .

1998: retirement. Continuation of the "learning programs" working group in Tübingen and since 2004 at the LMU in Munich

Walter Hoering was married to Irmgard Hörmann from 1970 until his death. You have two children.

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The teaching and work of Walter Hoering reflects far-reaching scientific interests, ranging from the set theoretical foundations of mathematics and logic, through philosophical theories of rationality, the history of natural sciences, to the programming of teaching-learning programs on logic.

The work on the logic program SMTutor, which prepares the Smullyan calculus for logic students, spanned a period from the early 1980s to the present day. During this time, the program was adapted in numerous variants to the constant further developments of the programming languages. Due to the constant further development, the program never reached a completed distribution level. However, the SMTutor has repeatedly reached new generations of logic students and at the same time was a focal point for changing working groups of students who pushed the development forward under the guidance of Walter Hoering.

Publications

Own writings

  • Frege and the switching algebra, Archiv f. math. Logic and Basic research, Vol. 3/1958, p. 125
  • Absolutely undecidable sentences of mathematics and the attempt of their philosophical interpretation (dissertation). Munich 1961
  • Report on the discussion of the "Logic" group at the 6th German Congress for Philosophy, Munich 1960. In: "The problem of order", Helmut Kuhn, F. Wiedmann (ed.), Meisenheim Glan 1962
  • Absolutely undecidable sentences of mathematics. In "Logic and Logic Calculus", commemorative publication for the seventieth birthday of Prof. Dr. W. Britzelmayr. M. Käsbauer u. FvKutschera (Ed.), Munich 1962
  • Relationship between catalytic activity and luminescence intensity of zinc-cadmium-sulfide-phosphors (dissertation). Munich 1964.
  • Indeterminism in Classical Physics. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20/1969, pp. 247-255
  • What is a law like? Abstracts, 4th International Congress f. Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest 1971, p. 149
  • Construction. In: Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe, H. Krings, HM Baumgartner (Ed.), Vol. 2, Munich 1973, pp. 799–806
  • Afterword to: Rudolf Carnap, Fundamentals of Logic and Mathematics, W. Hoering Übers., Munich 1973, pp. 95-106
  • The contradiction in Frege's system. In: Frege and modern basic research, Ch. Thiel (Ed.), Meisenheim 1975, p. 52
  • Logicism yesterday and today. In: Frege and modern basic research, Ch. Thiel (Ed.), Meisenheim 1975, p. 62
  • "Paradigm Shift" and "Normal Science" viewed through the eyes of a science theorist, Studia Leibnitiana 1977, special issue 6, pp. 18-28
  • Contingency. In: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy (also published as CD), J. Ritter, K. Founder (Ed.), Vol. 4/1976, columns 1035-1038
  • On judging rationality. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 11 (2) / 1980, pp. 123-136
  • On understanding quantum logic (Discussion of Hilary Putnam's contribution). Knowledge, Vol. 16/1981, pp. 227-233.
  • Chance and necessity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Knowledge, Vol. 19/1983, pp. 217–223
  • Anomalies of reduction. In: Reduction in Science, W. Balzer, DA Pearce, HJ Schmidt (eds.), Dordrecht 1984
  • Arguments for certain classes of indeterministic states in a functionalist context. Abstracts, IX Internationales Wittgenstein Symposion, Kirchberg am Wechsel 1984
  • Hydrodynamics and the visual mind. An analysis of self-imposed constraints which led to Maxwell's success. Abstracts of 17th Congress of History of Science, Berkeley 1985
  • Strategies of induction. In: Tradition and Innovation, XIII. German Congress for Philosophy, Bonn 1984, W. Kluxen (Ed.), Hamburg 1988, pp. 145–155
  • A controversial logician - The Baron von Freytag Löringhoff is eighty years old today. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen edition, June 11, 1992
  • Schickard's later interpreter - On the death of the Tübingen logician Bruno Baron von Freytag called Löringhoff. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen edition, March 5, 1996
  • L 'idée d'une philosophy exacte et l' enseignement de la logique. In Travaux de l'URA 1084, CNRS Université de Provence, Journées de logique et philosophie - La logique, science normative ou science appliquée? Aix en Provence 1996, pp. 37-44
  • The Schramm seminar. Walter Hoering, Helmut Fischer, Michael Schütz, Rolf Wiegert. In: Mathesis: Festschrift for the seventieth birthday of Matthias Schramm, Rüdiger Thiele (Ed.), Berlin 2000
  • Logic in Philosophy - A Historical Outline. In: Logic in Philosophy, W.Spohn, P. Schroeder-Heister, Erik J. Olson (Eds.), Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-935025-66-9 , pp. 15–72
  • Review of: "Language's Reach for Nature - A Semantics of Classical Physics", Andreas Kamlah, Paderborn 2002. In: Knowledge, Vol. 65/2006, pp. 433-440

Translations

  • Rudolf Carnap. Introduction to the philosophy of natural science, original title Philosophical Foundations of Physics, trans. by Walter Hoering, Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1969.
  • Rudolf Carnap. Basics of Logic and Mathematics, original title Foundations of Logic and Mathematics (1939), transl., With an afterword and a critical bibliography by Walter Hoering, Munich 1973.
  • John Losee. Theory of Science: a historical introduction, original title A historical introduction to the philosophy of science (1972), trans. by Walter Hoering, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1977.
  • Works by Carnap, Richard Cartwright, Church, Goodman, Henkin, Quine, Hao Wang in: Wolfgang Stegmüller Hsg, "Das Universalien-Problem", Darmstadt 1978
  • Jules Vuillemin, The aporia of the master's conclusion by Diodoros Kronos and its solutions - An example of the 'application of the axiomatic method to philosophy, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie Vol. 10 (2) / 1985 p. 1
  • Roshdi Rashed, Combinatorics and Metaphysics - Ibn Sina, at-Tusi and Halabi, In: Mathesis: Festschrift for the seventieth birthday of Matthias Schramm, Rüdiger Thiele Hsg, Berlin 2000, pp. 37–54

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on the place of birth Tetschen-Bodenbach, which can be found in the literature and on the Internet, is incorrect. The city only had this double name from 1942 to 1945.
  2. ^ Obituary notice Walter Hoering , Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 31, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hoering, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and professor of philosophy in Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tetschen
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2019