Wolfgang Kuhlmann

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Wolfgang Kuhlmann (born October 19, 1939 in Kiel ) is a German philosopher and advocate of discourse ethics .

academic career

Kuhlmann - from the Hasseldieksdamm district of Kiel - received his doctorate in 1974, qualified as a professor in 1983, is a student of Karl-Otto Apel and a colleague of Peter Rohs . He then worked as a private lecturer in philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1985 to 1992 as managing director and editor of the series of publications in the Forum for Philosophy in Bad Homburg. As part of this activity, there was a collaboration with Eberhard Schnelle from 1987 to 1991 . In 1989 Kuhlmann became an associate professor at the University of Frankfurt and in 1992 a university professor in Erfurt . From 1993 to 2005 Wolfgang Kuhlmann taught at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Universität Aachen .

In his philosophy, Kuhlmann affirms the possibility of an ultimate justification and takes a universalistic position . Wolfgang Kuhlmann claims a final justification especially for discourse ethics in the sense of Karl-Otto Apels.

Works

  • Reflection and communicative experience . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
  • Reflexive ultimate justification. Studies on transcendental pragmatics . Alber Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 1985.
  • Kant and the transcendental pragmatics . Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1992.
  • Philosophy of language, hermeneutics, ethics. Studies on transcendental pragmatics. Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1992.
  • Morality and morality . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Contributions to discourse ethics. Studies on transcendental pragmatics. Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
  • Inevitability. Studies on transcendental pragmatics . Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010.

literature

  • Wulf Kellerwessel u. a. (Ed.): Discourse and reflection: Wolfgang Kuhlmann on his 65th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann publishing house, Würzburg 2005. ISBN 3-8260-3149-0

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personal data
SURNAME Kuhlmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel