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53Is the Idea of the Good Beyond Being? Plato's "epekeina tês ousias" RevisitedIn Debra Nails & Harold Tarrant (eds.), Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato, Societas Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 197-203. 2015.The article tries to prove that the famous formula "epekeina tês ousias" has to be understood in the sense of being beyond being and not only in the sense of being beyond essence. We make hereby three points: first, since pure textual exegesis of 509b8–10 seems to lead to endless controversy, a formal proof for the metaontological interpretation could be helpful to settle the issue; we try to give such a proof. Second, we offer a corollary of the formal proof, showing that not only self-predicat…Read more
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10Selbst philosophieren: Ein MethodenbuchDe Gruyter. 2024.Die dritte, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage des bewährten Studienbuches wurde um elf Einträge erweitert: Abduktion (Schluss auf die beste Erklärung), Clusterdefinition, Experimentelle Philosophie, Explikation, Kontextdefinition, Kriterien, Methode, Naturalistischer Fehlschluss, Neologismus, notwendig und hinreichend – mengentheoretisch und Stipulative Definition. Zudem enthält der Band einen wertvollen Anhang mit einem philosophischen Kanon, den wichtigsten logischen Regeln und einem umfangrei…Read more
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20Selbst philosophieren. Ein Methodenbuch (3rd ed.)De Gruyter. 2024.Die dritte, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage des bewährten Studienbuches wurde um elf Einträge erweitert: Abduktion (Schluss auf die beste Erklärung), Clusterdefinition, Experimentelle Philosophie, Explikation, Kontextdefinition, Kriterien, Methode, Naturalistischer Fehlschluss, Neologismus, notwendig und hinreichend – mengentheoretisch und Stipulative Definition. Zudem enthält der Band einen wertvollen Anhang mit einem philosophischen Kanon, den wichtigsten logischen Regeln und einem umfangrei…Read more
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20Paradoxien – Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissen) bis Z(eit) (edited book)Brill mentis. 2024.Paradoxes evoke astonishment, confusion, and delight in the extraordinary. But that is not all: They point to fundamental problems of philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. This volume presents a number of the most important paradoxes from an analytical-philosophical perspective. German abstract: Paradoxien rufen Staunen, Verwirrung und die Lust am Außergewöhnlichen hervor. Aber nicht nur das: Es sind Paradoxien, die bis heute auf Grundprobleme der Philosophie, der Mathematik sowie…Read more
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12Selbst philosophieren: Ein Methodenbuch (2nd ed.)De Gruyter. 2013.Wer philosophieren will, muss, methodisch betrachtet, vor allem drei Dinge tun: analysieren, argumentieren und interpretieren. Jeder - ob Erstsemester oder fortgeschrittener Student - kann mit diesem Buch lernen, selbst Begriffe zu analysieren, selbst Argumente zu verstehen, zu bewerten und zu entwickeln; im Unterschied zu anderen Einführungsbüchern kommt aber auch die Interpretation zu ihrem vollen Recht. Analysieren, Argumentieren und Interpretieren sind die Methoden der Philosophie, die hier …Read more
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12Der Gram der GrammatikerPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 150 (2): 251-264. 2006.
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12Das lateinische AkrostichonPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 148 (1): 88-115. 2004.
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286EinleitungIn Gregor Damschen, Dominic Kaegi & Enno Rudolph (eds.), Theophrast: Metaphysik, Meiner. 2012.
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502In dubio pro embryone. Neue Argumente zum moralischen Status menschlicher EmbryonenIn Gregor Damschen & Dieter Schönecker (eds.), Der moralische Status menschlicher Embryonen. Pro und contra Spezies-, Kontinuums-, Identitäts- und Potentialitätsargument, De Gruyter. pp. 187-267. 2003.When in doubt, for the embryo. New arguments on the moral status of human embryos. - In the first part of our essay we distinguish the philosophical from the legal and political level of the embryo debate and describe our indirect justification strategy. It consists in renouncing a determination of the dignity-giving φ-properties and instead starting from premises that are undoubted by all discussion partners. In the second part we reconstruct and criticize the species, continuum, identity and p…Read more
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210Zukünftig φ. Über ein subjektivistisches Gedankenexperiment in der EmbryonendebatteJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 8 67-93. 2003.In future φ. On a subjectivist thought experiment in the embryo debate. -
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243Die Würde menschlicher Embryonen. Zur moralischen Relevanz von Potentialität und numerischer IdentitätInternationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie (2): 44-69. 2003.The dignity of human embryos. On the moral relevance of potentiality and numerical identity. -
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264IntroductionIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stüber (eds.), Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. 2009.Introduction to Debating Dispositions. Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, ed. by Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, and Karsten R. Stueber, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2009.
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272Formen der Begründung. Zur Struktur und Reichweite reflexiver Argumente bei Platon, Cicero und ApelIn Manuel Baumbach (ed.), Tradita et Inventa. Studien zum Nachleben der Antike, Winter. 2000.Forms of justification. On the structure and scope of self-refutation arguments in Plato, Cicero and Apel. - In this essay, the structure and scope of transcendental types of argumentation are analyzed, compared and criticized on the basis of the reception of two antiskeptical types of reasoning in ancient philosophy (Plato, Parmenides 135b-c; Cicero, Lucullus § 28) by a contemporary philosophical author (Karl-Otto Apel). Plato puts forward a transcendental argument for the inevitability of a fi…Read more
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Peri ton areskonton philosophois physikon dogmatonIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Grosses Werklexikon der Philosophie: A-K, . pp. 1640-1641. 1999.Contribution on Peri ton areskonton philosophois physikon dogmaton (Placita philosophorum), 2nd c. CE, based on a work by Aetius, falsely attributed to Plutarch.
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6Peri hypsusIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Grosses Werklexikon der Philosophie: A-K, . pp. 1640. 1999.Contribution on Pseudo-Longinos' Peri hypsus (De sublimitate).
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16Alexander von AphrodisiasIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Grosses Werklexikon der Philosophie: A-K, . pp. 31-33. 1999.Contribution on Alexander's works.
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52Platon und Aristoteles – sub ratione veritatis. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wieland zum 70. Geburtstag (edited book)Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2003.With contributions by John J. Cleary, Gregor Damschen, Rainer Enskat, Francisco J. Gonzalez, Jürgen Mittelstraß and Carlo Natali (all on Plato) as well as by Enrico Berti, Nicolas Braun, Graciela M. Chichi, Wolfgang Kullmann, Helmut Mai, Alejandro G. Vigo, Franco Volpi and Hermann Weidemann (all on Aristotle).
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403Grenzen des Gesprächs über Ideen. Die Formen des Wissens und die Notwendigkeit der Ideen in Platons "Parmenides"In Gregor Damschen, Rainer Enskat & Alejandro G. Vigo (eds.), Platon und Aristoteles – sub ratione veritatis. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wieland zum 70. Geburtstag, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 31-75. 2003.Limits of the Conversation about Forms. Types of Knowledge and Necessity of Forms in Plato's "Parmenides". - Forms (ideas) are among the things that Plato is serious about. But about these things he says in his "Seventh Letter": "There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject." (341c, transl. J. Harward). Plato's statement suggests the question, why one does not and never can do justice to the Platonic forms by means of a written text about the forms. Another big question …Read more
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357Ist Wissen-dass eine Unterart von Wissen-wie?In O. Neumaier, Clemens Sedmak & Michael Zichy (eds.), Philosophische Perspektiven. Beiträge zum VII. Internationalen Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Ontos. pp. 290-295. 2005.Is knowledge-that a species of knowledge-how? - How is knowledge-how related to knowledge-that? Three possible answers are: (A1) intellectualism: knowledge-how is a subspecies of knowledge-that. (A2) Rylean account: knowledge-how and knowledge-that are completely distinct. (A3) anti-intellectualism: knowledge-that is a subspecies of knowledge-how. In this essay I present a new anti-intellectualist reductio argument that shows that answer A3 is true: knowledge-that is a subspecies of knowledge-ho…Read more
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380André Höhn: Beobachtungen zur Formung des Sokratesbildes im platonischen 'Symposion' (review)Gnomon 86 (7): 644-646. 2014.
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27Aufklärung und WissenschaftJahrbuch 2007 der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Halle/Saale), Leopoldina 53 339-346. 2008.Enlightenment and Science. - Extensive conference report about a meeting organised by Rainer Enskat and Andreas Kleinert, which took place on 25 and 26 January 2007 in the rooms of the IZEA and the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, in Halle (Saale), Germany. The topic of the conference was the question, which had become urgent since the 18th century, whether enlightenment through science is possible or necessary despite science.
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590The principle of performative contradiction. On the epistemological significance of the dialogue form in Plato's "Euthydemus". - In this study, an analysis of the section 285d-288a of Plato's "Euthydemus" shall show two things: (1) The sophistic model of a world in which there is no contradiction, in which every linguistic utterance is true and every action correct, has no semantic inconsistencies, but can only be rejected with the help of the principle of performative contradictions. (2) It is …Read more
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376Autologos. Ein Dialog über die FundamentallogikIn Gregor Damschen & Alejandro G. Vigo (eds.), Dialog und Verstehen. Klassische und moderne Perspektiven, Lit. 2015.Autologos. A dialogue on fundamental logic. - In this dialogue of three dialogue partners, an attempt is made to prove the logical prerequisites of any meaningful dialogue by using transcendental arguments. Among these inescapable logical premises are a semantics as strong as that of modal logic S5, and an epistemic anti-realism.
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24Dialog und Verstehen. Klassische und moderne Perspektiven (edited book)Lit. 2015.Thinking is a kind of dialogue ─ according to Plato thinking is a silent and inner conversation of the soul with itself. Understanding presupposes thinking. Therefore, understanding presupposes a kind of dialogue. From this conclusion arises not only the question of what dialogue and understanding are in essence, but also the question of the connection between dialogue and understanding. This volume explores these two question complexes in both a philosophical-historical and a systematic manner …Read more
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36Der moralische Status menschlicher Embryonen. Pro und contra Spezies-, Kontinuums-, Identitäts- und Potentialitätsargument (edited book)de Gruyter. 2003.In the debate about the moral status of human embryos, it is not always clear which arguments are actually disputed. This book offers students and researchers, but also laypersons interested in the current debate, the opportunity to inform themselves about the current state of discussion and to learn about the most important arguments in a clear and concise form. These arguments are as follows: Since embryos as members of the species homo sapiens sapiens are human beings, they possess dignity (s…Read more
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28This edition of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s “De ente et uno” (“On being and the one”) offers for the first time a key text for the reformation of metaphysics in Renaissance philosophy in German translation. The Latin text is added. The detailed introduction and careful commentary reveal the guiding points Pico has set with this work.
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323Theophrast: MetaphysikMeiner. 2012.Theophrastus' treatise "Metaphysics" contains a compact and critical reconstruction of unsolved systematic problems of classical Greek philosophy. It is primarily about fundamental problems of ontology and natural philosophy, such as the question of the interdependence of principles and perceptible phenomena or the plausibility of teleology as a methodical principle of the explanation of nature. The aim of the critical Greek-German edition (with introduction and commentary) is to make visible th…Read more
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431Definition, Bedingungen und Träger des Personseins – drei philosophische AporienIn Adrian Loretan (ed.), Die Würde der menschlichen Person, Lit. pp. 153-164. 2017.Definition, conditions and bearers of being a person - three philosophical aporias. In this article I examine the philosophical question of how to define the concept of the person in a non-arbitrary way, how to find out the determining conditions of being a person and how to enumerate the bearers of being a person. I come to the conclusion that the question of a non-arbitrary definition, of the essential conditions and of the bearers of being a person has not yet been clarified; it is not suffi…Read more
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230Selbst philosophieren. Ein Methodenbuchde Gruyter. 2012.Doing Philosophy Yourself. A Book of Methods. Whoever wants to philosophize must do three things: analyze for himself, argue for himself, and interpret for himself. This book enables one to learn the methods of philosophy through exercises and solutions close to philosophical practice; particular emphasis is put on close textual interpretation. This book is excellent both for the university and for self-study.