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41Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep existential and philosophical interest. In this volume, leading metaphysicians discuss key questions about personal identity, including 'What are we?', 'How do we persist?', and 'Which conditions gua…Read more
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Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialog. Papers of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium (edited book)Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 2006.
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1Lebewesen und Artefakte: Ontologische UnterscheidungenPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 115 (1): 125-147. 2008.This article is a contribution to what we might call „commonsense-ontology“. The aim is to defend the commonsensical distinction between living beings and artefacts on the basis of ontological arguments. The distinction between living beings and artefacts is increasingly difficult to draw because of new developments in biotechnology. For developing criteria of an acceptable distinction I defend the existence of artefacts first. Subsequently I discuss three criteria how we might sensibly distingu…Read more
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Kausalkräfte und agenskausale libertarische WillensfreiheitIn Anne Sophie Spann & Daniel Wehinger (eds.), Vermögen und Handlung: Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde, Mentis Verlag. pp. 311-335. 2013.Die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Dispositionen und Kausalkräften innerhalb der analytischen Ontologie hat wesentlich dazu beigetragen, in der Handlungstheorie offener und ungenierter von den Kausalkräften des Handelnden („agent causal powers“) bzw. der Agenskausalität (AK) zu sprechen. In diesem Beitrag gehe ich auf diese Entwicklung ein, indem ich aktuelle Ansätze agenskausaler libertarischer Willensfreiheit (ALW) diskutiere. Zuerst stelle ich kurz die Konkurrenztheorie von ALW dar, welche…Read more
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877Toward Analytic Theology: An ItineraryScientia et Fides 3 (2): 23-56. 2015.In this paper I aim at explaining how analytic philosophical theology developed into a thriving field of research. In doing so, I place analytic philosophical theology into a larger intellectually narrative that is deeply influenced by the philosophy of Enlightenment. This larger framework shows that analytic philosophical theology aims at providing answers to concerns raised by a philosophical tradition that shaped fundamentally the making of our modern Western secular world.
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830Normative Objectivity Without Ontological Commitments?Topoi 37 (4): 561-570. 2018.Several non-naturalist philosophers look for ways to maintain the objectivity of morals without making any ontological commitments. Recently Derek Parfit proposed an account of non-ontologically existing irreducible moral properties. My first aim in this paper is to outline that such an account is doomed to fail. My second aim in this paper is to argue that irreducible moral properties can be integrated with adaptions into an ontological framework such as E.J. Lowe’s four-category ontology. If i…Read more
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775Wohin führt die kausale Handlungstheorie?In Bruno Niederbacher & Edmund Runggaldier (eds.), Was sind menschliche Personen?: Ein akttheoretischer Zugang, De Gruyter. pp. 181-208. 2008.Wer der Frage nachgeht, was jemand tut, der geht – wenigstens implizit – auch der Frage nach, wer da etwas tut. Handlungen schreiben wir normalerweise Personen zu. Handeln zu können ist eine derjenigen Eigenschaften, die Personen auszeichnet. Die Analyse menschlichen Handelns geht mit der Frage einher, was menschliche Personen sind. Folgender Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Handlung und Person innerhalb der kausalen Theorie des Handelns. Durch eine eingehende Analyse dieses weitverbr…Read more
Georg Gasser
Universität Augsburg
Medical University of Innsbruck
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Medical University of InnsbruckLecturer
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Action |
| Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Meta-Ethics |
| European Philosophy |