Analytical Philosophy and Its Forgetfulness of the Continent. Gottfried Gabriel in conversation with Todor Polimenov

Authors

  • Gottfried Gabriel University of Jena
  • Todor Polimenov Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski'

Keywords:

20th century philosophy, Wittgenstein Ludwig, Frege Gottlob, philosophy of language, analytic philosophy in the German tradition

Abstract

Gottfried Gabriel is interviewed by Todor Polimenov about the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy.

Author Biographies

Gottfried Gabriel, University of Jena

Gottfried Gabriel, *1943, PhD 1972 University of Constance (Germany), Habilitation 1976, 1968-1992 Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Constance, interim (1986-1988) visiting professor at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil), 1992 Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bochum (Germany), 1995 at the University of Jena (Germany); since 2009 professor emeritus. He works in the areas of epistemology, logic, aesthetics and philosophy of language.

List of publications (monographs): Definitionen und Interessen. Über die praktischen Grundlagen der Definitionslehre (Stuttgart 1972), Fiktion und Wahrheit. Eine semantische Theorie der Literatur (Stuttgart 1975), Zwischen Logik und Literatur. Erkenntnisformen von Dichtung, Philosophie und Wissenschaft (Stuttgart 1991), Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie. Von Descartes zu Wittgenstein (Paderborn 1993, 3rd ed. 2008), Logik und Rhetorik der Erkenntnis. Zum Verhältnis von wissenschaftlicher und ästhetischer Weltauffassung (Paderborn 1997), Ästhetik und Rhetorik des Geldes (Stuttgart 2002), Einführung in die Logik (Jena 2005, 3rd ed. 2007). Editor of Historisches Wörterbuchs der Philosophie, vol. 11-13 (Basel 2001-2007).

Todor Polimenov, Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski'

Todor Polimenov is Assistant Professor in logic at the Department of Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, where he defended his doctoral dissertation on Frege and the rise of modern logic in 2006. His research interests include the history and philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of language in the analytical tradition. He is the author of numerous articles, mostly in Bulgarian, but also in German, on Frege, Wittgenstein and Paul Lorenzen. He is the editor and translator of collections of writings by Frege and Carnap.

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Gabriel, G., 1986. Frege als Neukantianer. Kant-Studien 77, pp. 84–101.

Gabriel, G., 1989. Lotze und die Entstehung der modernen Logik bei Frege [editor’s introduction]. In: R. H. Lotze, 1989. Logik. Erstes Buch. Vom Denken. Ed. by G. Gabriel. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, pp. XI–XLIII.

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2012-03-05

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012): Volume 1 / Number 1 (Aug 2012), A. Pichler, S. Säätelä, Y. Neuman (eds.)

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