Wolfgang Detel

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Wolfgang Detel (* 1942 ) is a German philosopher and retired professor of ancient philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

After studying philosophy, philology and mathematics in Tübingen, Hamburg and Mannheim and taking state exams in classical philology and mathematics , Detel completed his doctorate in philosophy on Plato . He completed his habilitation with a thesis on Pierre Gassendi . After teaching in Mannheim, he was appointed professor in Hamburg in 1980. After visiting professorships in Princeton , Pittsburgh , Reykjavík and at Rutgers - and Columbia University , he held the chair for ancient philosophy and philosophy of science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1991 .

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Detel researched and published in particular on the ancient philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and on the foundations of critical theory . He develops a related perspective of contemporary philosophy of science, under which the status and autonomy of the humanities as well as their relation to the human can be appreciated in a new way by drawing on substantial theories.

In Detel's work "Mind and Understanding: Historical Foundations of a Modern Hermeneutics " (2011) it is assumed that a modern hermeneutics as a theory of understanding can be reconstructed in the conceptual framework of the current theory of mind and semantics , which can be compared to scientific claims and Theoretical requirements asserted.

Fonts

Books:

  • Plato's description of the wrong sentence in “Theätet” and “Sophistes”. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972.
  • Scientia Rerum Natura Occultarum. Methodological studies on the physics of Pierre Gassendis. de Gruyter, Berlin 1978.
  • Power, morality, knowledge. Foucault and classical antiquity. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998. - Book review by Josef Früchtl: The ambiguity of power. In: The time . 37/1998.
    • English translation: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005.
  • Aristotle. Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-20301-7 (introduction with high systematic demands, especially on the theory of science and metaphysics; chapter on neo-Aristotelianism of the 20th century).
  • Basic philosophy course. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007ff, DNB 983064717 .
  • Mind and Understanding: Historical Foundations of Modern Hermeneutics . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-465-03711-8 .
  • Hermeneutics of Literature and Theory of Mind. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-465-04256-3 .
  • Why we can know nothing about God . Meiner, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7873-3441-4 .
Translations / comments
  • Aristotle: Analytica Posteriora . Translation and commentary by Wolfgang Detel. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-001796-1 (with extensive commentary).
  • Aristotle: Analytica Posteriora . Greek-German. Introduction, translation and comments by Wolfgang Detel. Meiner, Hamburg 2011.
  • Aristotle: metaphysics. Books VII and VIII. Greek-German. From the Greek by Wolfgang Detel with the assistance of Julia Wildberger; Comment from Wolfgang Detel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-27017-2 .

Selected items:

  • On the structure of the argument in the first main part of Plato's Aretedia dialogues. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. 55, 1973, pp. 1-29.
  • The criticism of the definitions in the second main part of the Platonic Arete dialogues. In: Kant studies. 65, 1974, pp. 122-134.
  • Two case studies to test falsificationism. In: Journal for General Theory of Science. 5, 1974, pp. 226-246.
  • Aisthesis and Logismos. Two problems of the Epicurean methodology. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. 57, 1975, pp. 21-35.
  • Was Gassendi an empiricist? In: Studia Leibnitiana. 65, 1975, pp. 178-221.
  • Method and progress in knowledge. Critical remarks on the relationship between the theory of science and the history of science. In: Journal for general scientific theory. 8, 1977, pp. 237-256.
  • On the Function of the Schematism Chapter in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In: Kant studies. 69, 1978, pp. 17-45.
  • Functional explanations in Marx. In: Analysis and Criticism. 1, 1979, pp. 147-163.
  • Empirical science. In: Concise dictionary of economics. Tübingen 1982, pp. 936-963.
  • Greeks and barbarians. To the beginnings of occidental racism. In: German magazine for philosophy. 6, 1995, pp. 1019-1045.
  • Foucault on Power and the Will to Knowledge. In: European Journal of Philosophy. 4, 1996, pp. 296-327.
  • A little sex is a must. On the problem of reference to the sexes. In: German magazine for philosophy. 45, 1997, pp. 63-98.
  • Why All Animals Have a Stomach: Demonstration and Axiomatization in Aristot-le's Parts of Animals. In: W. Kullmann, S. Föllinger (Ed.): Aristotelian Biology. Stuttgart 1997, pp. 63-84.
  • Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and the path to the principles. In: N. Avgelis (Ed.): Aristotle on Logic, Language, and Science. Thessaloniki 1998, pp. 155-182.
  • Aristotle on zoological explanation. In: Philosophical Topics. Volume 27, 1999, pp. 43-68.
  • Descartes and the epistemological fundamentalism. In: W. Niebel, A. Horn, H. Schnädelbach (eds.): Descartes in the discourse of the modern age. Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 230-258.
  • System and living environment at Habermas. In: St. Müller-Dohm (Ed.): The interest of reason. Review of the work of Habermas. Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 175-200.
  • Social Constructivism. In: Ph. Pettit u. a. (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier, 2001.
  • Knowledge and Context. In: Philosophical Inquiries. Volume 68, (2001), pp. Xxx
  • Teleosemantics. A new look at the mind? In: German magazine for philosophy. 49, 2001, pp. 465-491.
  • Do frogs and swamp people have thoughts? Some problems of teleosemantics. In: German magazine for philosophy. 49, 2001, pp. 601-626.
  • Skepticism and Scientific Method: The Case of Gassendi. In: Wolfgang Detel, Claus Zittel: Knowledge ideals and knowledge cultures in the early modern times. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003713-X , pp. 259-275.
  • Truth and representation. In: G. Figal (Ed.): Interpretations of Truth. (Files from the meeting of the narrow circle of the General Society for Philosophy in Germany, Tübingen 1998). Tübingen 2002, pp. 182-200.
  • with B. Samson: On the concept of non-mathematical functions. In: Analysis and Criticism. 24, 2002, pp. 100-129.
  • Power and Gender Relations in Antiquity - a Foucaultian Perspective. In: The Blue Rider. 16, 2003, pp. 23-30.
  • Orders of knowledge. In: A. Honneth, M. Saar (Ed.): Michel Foucault. Interim assessment of a reception. Frankfurt 2003, pp. 181–191.
  • Epistemic Cultures. In: J. Fried (Ed.): Knowledge culture and knowledge cultures. Berlin 2004, pp. 119-132.
  • Research on the brain and spirit. In: German magazine for philosophy. 52, 2004, pp. 891-920.
  • A New Reading of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science. In: M. Lutz-Bachmann, A. Fidora, P. Antolic (Eds.): Knowledge and Science. Problems of Epistemology in Philosophy of the Middle Ages. Berlin 2004, pp. 1–14.
  • Hybrid Theories of Normativity. In: Ch. Gill (Ed.): Norms, Virtues, and Objectiv-ity. Oxford UP, 2005, pp. 113-144.
  • Logic and Philosophy of Science in Aristotle. In: M.-L-Gill, P. Pellegrin (Eds.): The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-631-21061-X , pp. 245-269.
  • Mental Causation and the Notion of Collective Action. In: P. Stekeler-Weithofer, N. Psarros (Ed.): Facettes of Sociality. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Foucault and the search for large structures. In: KM Bogdal, A. Geisenhanslücke (Ed.): The absence of the work. After Foucault. Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-935025-83-1 , pp. 37-52.
  • Eros and Knowledge in Plato's Symposium. In: G. Schiemann, D. Mersch, G. Böhme (eds.): Plato in the post-metaphysical age. Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-18259-6 , pp. 137-154.
  • Perspectives of a theory of freedom. In: German magazine for philosophy. 54, 2006, pp. 349-374.
  • Logic and Experience in Aristotle. In: A. Fidora, M. Lutz-Bachmann: Experience and evidence. Berlin 2007, pp. 3–10.
  • Knowledge culture. In: R. Schützeichel (Hrsg.): Handbuch Wissenssoziologie und Wissensforschung. Konstanz 2007, pp. 670-679.
  • Constructivism. In: S. Gosepath, W. Hinsch, B. Rössler (eds.): Handbook of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy. Volume 1, Berlin 2008, pp. 650-654.
  • Aristotle and the metaphor. In: KM Hingst, M. Liatsi (Ed.): Pragmata. Festschrift for Klaus Oehler. Tübingen 2008, pp. 13-22.
  • Foucault: Writings on Ethics. In: C. Kammler, R. Parr, UJ Schneider: Foucault manual. Stuttgart / Weimar 2008, pp. 129-138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Detel. (No longer available online.) Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, archived from the original on October 12, 2016 ; accessed on December 15, 2011 (lecturers). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philosophische-akademie.de
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Detel: Spirit and Understanding. Klostermann Verlag, accessed on May 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Detel. (No longer available online.) Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on December 15, 2011 (courses). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philosophische-akademie.de
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SURNAME Detel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1942