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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Anaximander’s ἄπειρον: from the Life-world to the Cosmic Event Horizon(2019)Scholars have claimed repeatedly that Anaximander’s notion of the ἄπειρον marks the first metaphysical concept, or even the first theoretical entity, in Western thought. The present paper scrutinizes this claim. Characterizing natural phenomena as ἄπειρος—that is, as being inexhaustible or untraversable by standard human means—was common in daily practice, especially when referring to landmasses and seas but also when referring to vast numbers of countable objects. I will deny the assumption that Anaximander’s notion started off as being a theoretical answer to a specific philosophical question. That said, the aforementioned everyday notion of ἄπειρος could still lead to the development of theoretical concepts. Based on the observations Anaximander did with seasonal sundials, the inexhaustible landmasses and seas just mentioned became depicted on his world map by means of concentric circles. These circles then marked the bounds of experience and, by being fixed and finite, suggested the possibility of traversing beyond what is directly experienced. Evaluating claims from recent Anaximander scholarship, the paper ends with a brief comparison with concepts from modern physics which play an analogous role of demarcating the bounds of experience.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel435 999 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Phenomenology meets logical semantics: what Husserl's and Tarski's theories of truth do have in common(2003-05)The aim of this paper is to draw out some connections between phenomenology and logical semantics in respect of the theory of truth. Jan Wolenski has discussed several continuities from Brentano to Tarski and this paper is a further development of his approach.1 Wolenski’s account fails to take Husserl into consideration and I shall argue here that a comparison between Husserl and Tarski proves to be a particularly fruitful means of drawing out the commonalities between phenomenology and logical semantics; commonalities that concern the idea of philosophy as a formal, scientific enterprise, the notion of self-evidence and the bringing about of Aristotle’s programme of a theory of truth. Of central importance is the concept of ‘Erfüllung’ (‘fulfilment’, ‘satisfaction’), which is used by both Husserl and Tarski. Once this concept is properly understood, it is possible to see how much the two theories have in common and how the term ‘correspondence’, when applied to these accounts, is somewhat misleading. Finally, the philosophical significance of the parallels drawn gets discussed.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:34Heft:2295 359 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Weyl’s ‘agens theory’ of matter and the Zurich Fichte(2007-03)This paper investigates Hermann Weyl’s reception of philosophical concepts stemming from the German Idealist Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In particular, Weyl’s ‘agens theory’ of matter, which he held around 1925, will be looked at. In the extant literature, the admittedly also important—influence of Husserl on Weyl has mainly been addressed. Thus, apart from investigating some detailed Fichtean inheritances in Weyl’s concepts of causality, chance and continuity, the general difference which Weyl saw between the philosophies of Fichte and Husserl will also be discussed. For Weyl this is above all a difference between an active constructivism and a rather passive phenomenological seeing (Schau). Further, the paper shows in some detail the way Weyl was drawn into a certain reading of Fichte by his Zurich colleague, the philosopher Fritz Medicus. The methodological frame of the paper is that of Konstellationsforschung, a historical and systematic approach which proves to be particularly fruitful when investigating a (broadly speaking) German Idealist context and which allows special attention to be given to the acting subjects within the constellation under investigation. Conversely, Weyl’s agens theory suggests amendments to this methodology.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:38Heft:1234 694 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The Bounds of Experience: Encountering Anaximander’s In(de)finite(2017)In this paper I argue that the term ἄπειρος originally referred to things people experienced as inexhaustible, countless, or untraversable. This everyday usage provided the context for Anaximander’s notion of the ἄπειρον. This observation receives support from Anaximander’s world map, especially from its representation of an agent-indexed boundedness of lands and seas. That representation in turn draws upon and develops out of Homer and Hesiod, particularly the myth of Oceanus.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel417 362 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Time and Suffering – False Metaphors, (De-)synchronous Times, and Internal DynamicsAt times, people feel something which they would describe as “time pressure”. But is time really a substance which could put pressure on us? I shall argue that it is not and that indeed a philosophical revisionism is sought for in this context; namely the avoidance of the permanent use of such false physical and economic metaphors like “time pressure”, “time costs”, “loss of time”. Having said that, the real phenomenon underlying this metaphorical talk is a discrepancy or dissonance between different times scales: the individual time scale of a person as structured by her intentions, aims, and goals; and an objective time scale or intersubjective time scale as structured by (natural or social) events of the world around her. I will argue that also the so-named “fear of death” – that is, the suffering resulting from the worry about one’s finitude – can be classified as a special type of such a dissonance; namely as an irreversible dissonance or desynchronization based on the overall stoppage of one’s individual time. This stoppage, in turn, will be characterised as the termination point of the ever new and tensed division or divergence between what is experienced as happening now and as being just past. Towards the end of the paper I will come back to the question of a philosophical revisionism – that is, to the cases where discrepancies or dissonances between individual time and intersubjective time do allow for a “re-synchronization” and, thus, for an avoidance of suffering.Wissenschaftlicher Artikel270 297 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Die “Eigenwüchsigkeit” der Natur. Über ein dynamisches Naturverständnis und unser Verhältnis zur Natur(2013)Der Architekturdiskurs begegnet der Natur mit Skepsis. Jenseits schöner Landschaften wird die Suche nach dem Wesen der Natur durch die allgemeine Popularität des Begriffs erschwert. Dies wird befördert durch eine Baugeschichte, welche die Baukunst traditionell als statischen Gegenpunkt zu einer Natur begriffen versteht, die seit der Antike als etwas in seinem Wesen Dynamisches und Prozesshaftes gedacht wird. Die Architektur spiegelt hier eine allgemeine Tendenz wider: Obwohl wir als leibliche Wesen doch Teil der Natur sind, haben wir uns im Lauf der Geschichte immer mehr als ihr Gegenüber betrachtet. – Naturphilosophische Ansätze versuchen diese Kluft immer wieder zu überwinden.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelHeft:6.2013289 157 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Recurrent Aspects of Ancient Chinese, Greek, and Near Eastern World MapsThis paper seeks recurrent characteristics of ancient world maps from different cultures to gain insights into constant aspects of human perceptions and world views. Discussed is how circular horizons are introduced to delineate the far and unknown world, how the shapes of the known areas are idealised by being given regular shapes, and how the way from the rim to the centre often epitomises cosmogony or evolutionary progress.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:44Heft:2102 70 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Spinozistische Feldmetaphysik und physikalisches Materieverständnis(2010)This paper contrasts Jonathan Bennett’s field metaphysical interpretation of Spinoza with field theoretic approaches from modern physics. Following on from the variety of examples given by Bennett and his followers, this discussion encompasses both classical as well as quantum field theories; in particular, different versions of geometrodynamics and the attempts by Einstein and others towards a unified field theory. This then leads to the question of whether a sustainable analogy between modern field physics and Spinoza’s metaphysics (and hence a Spinozian philosophy of nature) is possible at all. Such an analogy seems available, but — as the discussion will show — it is strongly dependent on the interpretation of Spinoza’s distinction between finite and infinite modes.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:35Heft:2268 631 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Einrichtungsantrag Contradiction Studies – Konstellationen, Heuristiken und Konzepte des Widersprüchlichen, LesefassungLesefassung des Einrichtungsantrags des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 2686 Contradiction StudiesBuchBand:1535 1278 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Quasi-Hearing in Husserl, Levinson, and Gordon(2005-01)This essay brings out the conceptual confluence in Husserl’s early account on the perception of music, Levinson’s notion of quasi-hearing, and Gordon’s concept of audiation. They all ascribe a central role to our capability of integrating acoustic information spread out over some time and take it to render musical understanding possible. The interval of this integration process, i.e. the extension of the ‘Zeithof’ or the ‘temporal window of quasi-hearing’, was found to be on the order of ten seconds. It also turned out that all three approaches describe rather low level auditory processes. Besides, it is this very investigation of the fine-structure of integrating sensual information over some time interval which leads Husserl to a very general ‘theory of meaning’; namely one which is applicable not only to music but also to language and which certainly has commonsense on its side.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:36Heft:1273 336