Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Welsch
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Jena
E-mail: wolfgang.welsch@uni-jena.de
Curriculum vitae
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Wolfgang Welsch, Prof. Dr. phil., born 1946; studied philosophy, art history, psychology and archeology at Munich and Würzburg universities; Ph. D. 1974, Habilitation 1982. |
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1988-93 |
Professor of Philosophy at Otto Friedrich University Bamberg |
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1993-98 |
Professor of Philosophy at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg |
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since 1998 |
Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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Visiting Professorships |
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1987 |
at Erlangen-Nuremberg University |
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1987-88 |
at Free University Berlin |
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1992-93 |
at Humboldt University Berlin |
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1994-95 |
at Stanford University |
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1998 |
at Emory University |
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2003 |
at the Humboldt Study Center of the University of Ulm |
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Fellowships |
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1985-87 |
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna |
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1996 |
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
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2000-01 |
Stanford Humanities Center |
| 2003 | Villa Vigoni, Italy |
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Awards |
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1992 |
Max-Planck Research Prize |
Research areas and current projects
Epistemology, anthropology, philosophical aesthetics and the theory of art, cultural philosophy, contemporary philosophy; Aristotle, Hegel.
He is currently working on a strictly evolutionary conception of the human, including both biological and cultural evolution.
Current research projects:
Publications
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Books
Audio cassettes/CDs/DVDs
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Aestheticization
Processes: Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects
Philosophy: Specific Origin and Universal Aspirations (traditional, modern, future)
Reason: Traditional and Contemporary or Why should we still speak of reason after all?
Kreativität
durch Zufall. Das
große Vorbild der
Evolution und einige künstlerische Parallelen
[Creativity
by Chance - The Great Model of Evolution and some Artistic Parallels]
Zur universalen Schätzung des
Schönen
[On the Universal Appreciation of Beauty]
Just what is it that makes homo
sapiens so different, so appealing?
[ A Critique of Michael Tomasello's Views]
Was ist eigentlich
Transkulturalität?
[What is Transculturality?]
Abstracts:
Vernunft
heute
[Reason Today]
Reason:
Traditional and
Contemporary or Why should we still speak of reason after all?
Artificial Paradises? Considering the World of Electronic Media - and Other Worlds
Subjektsein
heute. Zum
Zusammenhang von Subjektivität und Transversalität
[Today's Subject. On the Link between Subjectivity, Plurality and
Transversality]
Strukturwandel
der
Geisteswissenschaften
[Changes in the design of "Geisteswissenschaften"]
Medienwelten
und andere
Welten
[Media Worlds and Other Worlds]
The Changing Form of Cultures: Towards a Transcultural Design
Epistemischer
Anthropozentrismus
[Epistemic Anthropocentrism]
Inwiefern
Heidegger - bei aller Kritik - der modernen Denkform verhaftet blieb
[Why Heidegger - despite his critique of it - stayed
within the confines of the modern form of thought]
Contact
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Welsch
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Philosophie
Zwätzengasse 9
D - 07743 Jena
phone: +49 3641 944111
E-mail:
wolfgang.welsch@uni-jena.de
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