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Kompositionalitätsprinzip, Doppelstatus der "Proposition" und "aktuale" WeltEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 3 (2): 195. 1992.
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57Being and God: A Systematic Approach in Confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc MarionNorthwestern University Press. 2011.Ch. 1: Inadequate approaches to the question of God -- 1.1. Initial clarifications -- 1.2 Wholly unsystematic direct approaches -- 1.3. Semi-systematic indirect approaches -- 1.4. A wholly anti-systematic, anti-theoretical, and direct approach: Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 1.5. A characteristic example of a failed critique: Thomas Nagel's objections to God as "last point" -- Ch. 2. Heidegger's thinking of Being: the flawed development of a significant approach -- 2.1. Heidegger's failed and distorting…Read more
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57''What Does '... Is True' ('It Is True that...') Express?The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 6 131-141. 2000.The first section states two general theses: the claim that semeantic features are not expressible in language is indefensible; and, the role semantic expressions play in language consists in making language fully determinate. The second section elaborates on the main thesis of the paper; that is, ‘... is true’ expresses neither a predicate nor a PROsentence-forming operator (R. Brandom), but a PERsentence- (and PERproposition-) forming operator (‘PER’ from ‘PERfect’ or ‘PERform’). Contrary to t…Read more
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34The Context Principle, Universals and Primary States of AffairsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 30 (2). 1993.
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Ethik als philosophische Theorie. Probleme und Vorschläge eines "nicht-praktischen" PhilosophenEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 6 (2): 211. 1995.
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82Lässt Sich Der Begriff Der Dialektik Klären?Can the concept of dialectics be made clear?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (1): 131-165. 1996.The present article purports to answer the old question of whether the concept (and the method) of Hegelian dialectic can be clarified. Three arguments are advanced in defence of the claim that Hegel's conception is not in fact intelligible. The first argument shows that dialectical negation leads to an infinite regress. The second argument analyses Hegel's claim that the dialectical method yields a positive result and demonstrates that this claim remains completely unsubstantiated and unsubstan…Read more
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12The Rationality of Theistic Belief and the Concept of TruthIn Godehard Brüntrup & Ronald K. Tacelli (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Springer. pp. 39--60. 1999/2014.
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8Die "Gottesfrage" ist anerkanntermaßen eine äußerst komplexe, vieldeutige und obskure Frage. In ausführlicher Auseinandersetzung mit Heidegger, in dessen Schriften eine sehr einflussreiche einseitige und entstellende Interpretation und Kritik der großen metaphysischen Tradition immer wieder präsentiert wird, zeigt Lorenz B. Puntel, dass die Gottesfrage klar, rational und argumentativ, kurz: mit theoretischer Rigorosität, behandelt werden kann. Dies aber setzt einen umfassenden philosophischen Th…Read more
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87MetaphysicsReview of Metaphysics 65 (2): 299-319. 2011.The article aims to show that current understandings and developments of “metaphysics,” in both analytic and continental philosophy, fail to do justice both to the metaphysical tradition as a whole and to the potentialities inherent in that tradition’s mode and aim of thinking. The root failure is the failure to recognize that Thomas Aquinas, by distinguishing between ens and esse, reveals that metaphysics must thematize Being (esse) as well as being(s) (ens/entia). To be sure, Aquinas’s underst…Read more
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Darstellung, Methode und Struktur: Untersuchungen zur Einheit der systematischen Philosophie G. W. F. HegelsBouvier-Verlag Grundmann. 1973.
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5Wahrheitstheorien in der neueren Philosophie: e. krit.-systemat. DarstWissenschaftliche Buchegesellschaft. 1978.
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Theorie der Wahrheit. Thesen zur Klärung der GrundlagenEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 3 (2): 123-137. 1992.
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Partielle Metakritik: Konsensustheorie, Wahrheitsbegriff und WahrheitskriteriumEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 1 (3): 388. 1990.
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35El concepto de verdad: Esbozo de una teoría semántico-ontológicaRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 65 (1). 2009.
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116A Totalidade do Ser, o Absoluto e o tema "Deus": Um capítulo de uma nova MetafísicaRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 60 (2): 297-327. 2004.Propósito deste ensaio é apresentar uma nova abordagem ao velho problema que é o acesso filosófico ao Deus cristão. Isto acontece dentro do esquema de uma nova metafísica cujo ponto de partida é a capacidade que a mente tem de percepcionar a totalidade do ser, facto este que o artigo apresenta como sendo justamente uma estrutura central do intelecto. Dado que as distinções entre intelecto e mundo, conceitos e realidade, sujeito e objecto, etc., já pressupõem a totalidade do ser dada perceptivame…Read more
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99Truth, Sentential Non-Compositionalit, and OntologySynthese 126 (1-2): 221-259. 2001.The paper attempts to clarify some fundamental aspects of an explanationof the concept of truth which is neither “deflationary” nor “substantive”.The main aspect examined in detail concerns the ontological dimension of truth, the mind/language-world connection traditionally associated with the concept of truth. It is claimed that it does not make sense to defend or reject a relatedness of truth to the ontological dimension so long as the kind of presupposed or envisaged ontology is not made expl…Read more
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11Die "Gottesfrage" ist anerkanntermaßen eine äußerst komplexe, vieldeutige und obskure Frage. In ausführlicher Auseinandersetzung mit Heidegger, in dessen Schriften eine sehr einflussreiche einseitige und entstellende Interpretation und Kritik der großen metaphysischen Tradition immer wieder präsentiert wird, zeigt Lorenz B. Puntel, dass die Gottesfrage klar, rational und argumentativ, kurz: mit theoretischer Rigorosität, behandelt werden kann. Dies aber setzt einen umfassenden philosophischen Th…Read more
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27O conceito de categoria ontológica: um novo enfoqueKriterion: Journal of Philosophy 42 (104): 7-32. 2001.
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247How Can the Grand Metaphysical Questions of the (Christian-)Metaphysical Tradition Be Re-thought Today?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 83-91. 2004.The necessary task for philosophy is the development of a metaphysical ontology, i.e., a philosophical theory of everything. The urgency of this task is apparentin, for example, the weakness of proofs for the existence of God. When such “proofs” are not rooted in a comprehensive metaphysical ontology, the principlesapplied, as well as the “God” whose existence has supposedly been proven, are unintelligible. Thus, the explication of Being, from within an adequately articulated framework, should b…Read more
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73Dialektik und formalisierungJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 367-383. 1997.Dialectics and Formalization. In an appendix to his article Can the concept of dialectic be made clear? (JGPS 27: 131–165) the author critically examined an attempt by D. Wandschneider of reconstructing Hegelian dialectical logic by displaying antinomic structures. The main steps of this reconstruction were formalized within the framework of second order predicate logic. In his reply (JGPS 27: 347–352) Wandschneider argues that formalization is the wrong way of interpreting and judging his recon…Read more
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Wissenschaftlicher Relativismus und Philosophischer Populismus: Zu einer Kritik H.-J. Niemanns an der Philosophie Nicholas ReschersConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 29 (75): 251-277. 1996.
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104The history of philosophy in contemporary philosophy: The view from germanyTopoi 10 (2): 147-153. 1991.I have frequently mentioned objective problems and topics in the preceding sections. But what exactly is the force of ‘objective’ here? As my remarks should have made clear I have been using ‘objective’ to contrast with ‘purely historical’. A ‘purely historical’ approach never gets beyond reproduction, commentary, and interpretation. I call an approach ‘objective’ when it involves a philosopher who advances his own theses and claims. This minimal understanding of ‘objectivity’ (in the context of…Read more