Wolfgang Neuser (philosopher)

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Wolfgang Neuser (born December 25, 1950 in Siegen ) is a German philosopher and has been a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern since 1995 .

Career

Neuser studied physics and philosophy with a focus on theoretical astrophysics and the history of science from the 18th to 20th centuries at the Universities of Tübingen , Munich (LMU) , Heidelberg and Kassel . In 1979 he obtained his diploma in physics in Heidelberg , and in 1986 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Kassel . In 1992 he received his habilitation in philosophy from the University of Kassel .

Since 1995 he has held the chair for philosophy with special emphasis on natural and technical sciences at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. From 1992 to 2012 he was visiting professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , Brazil , and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2011 he was recognized by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for his “contribution to the introduction, consolidation and expansion of scientific, academic and cultural cooperation”.

His research focuses on the natural philosophy of German idealism with special consideration of contemporary scientific references to the natural sciences, epistemology and metaphysics , Renaissance philosophy ( Giordano Bruno ), business ethics and concepts of knowledge of the present.

In 1983, Neuser co-founded the working group on Hegel's natural philosophy (with Dieter Wandschneider , Michael John Petry, Dietrich von Engelhardt) and is editor of the Bibliography of Logic (with Wolfgang Lenski and Michael M. Richter).

Fonts (selection)

  • The space between logic and experience. Comments on Hegel's philosophy of nature. 1986 (PhD thesis, Kassel University, 1986).
  • with Hans-Georg Flickinger: A teoria de auto-organização. As Raízes da interpretação do Conhecimento. Edipucrs, Porto Alegre 1994.
  • A infinitude do mundo. Notas acerca do livro de Giordano Bruno "Sobre o Infinitude, o universo e os mundos". Edipucrs, Porto Alegre 1995.
  • Nature and concept. Studies on the constitution of theories and the history of concepts from Newton to Hegel. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1995.
  • Giordano Bruno : The book about the monad, the number and the figure. Frankfurt 1591. Translated, edited and commented by Wolfgang Neuser, Michael Spang and Erhard Wicke. Introduction by Wolfgang Neuser. Bautz, Nordhausen 2010.
  • Understanding knowledge: for self-organization of experience, action and concept . Springer, Heidelberg / New York / Berlin 2013 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Wolfgang Neuser honored by the Brazilian university , press release of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, April 27, 2011, accessed on May 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Neuser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins