Werner Flach (philosopher)

Werner Flach (born July 25, 1930 ) is a German philosopher. He is a representative of a transcendental philosophy linked to Kant , Neo-Kantianism and especially his teacher Hans Wagner .

Life

Flach received his doctorate in 1955 at the University of Würzburg and habilitated there in 1961. He had been a professor of philosophy there since 1968 and retired in 1995.

Werner Flach stood out primarily through his pronounced examination of the epistemological positions of analytical philosophy ( basics of epistemology )

Works (selection)

• Negation and otherness. A contribution to the problem of the ultimate implication , Munich-Basel 1959
• To the doctrine of principles of perception. Vol. 1, The basic speculative problem of isolation , Hamburg 1963
• Basics of the theory of knowledge. Criticism of knowledge, logic. Methodology , Würzburg 1994
• Basics of the theory of ideas. The themes of the self-creation of people and their world, culture , Würzburg 1997
• The idea of ​​the transcendental philosophy. Immanuel Kant , Würzburg 2002.

literature

• Peter Michael Lippitz: final reason. Werner Flach's theory of knowledge and the foundation approaches of Hans Wagner and Kurt Walter Zeidler . Würzburg 2005.
• Christian Krijnen: Philosophy as a system: Hans Wagner and Werner Flach . In: Information Philosophy . Volume 37, No. 4 , 2009, p. 27−33 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Flach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Geert Edel: On the problem of history and historicity in Werner Flax's thinking