Stephan Körner

Stephan Körner ( born September 26, 1913 in Ostrava, † August 17 2000 in Bristol ) was a philosopher who had specialized in the works of Immanuel Kant and the philosophy of mathematics.

Körner's father was a classical philology. His family was Jewish. At his father's request grains studied law at the Charles University in Prague. After completing his studies and doctorate in 1935 he served until 1939 military service. Because of the invasion of German troops grains emigrated in 1939 to the UK. There he joined the exile army of Czechoslovakia in 1940 and took part in the battle for France. Then he started at Cambridge to study philosophy with Richard Bevan Braithwaite, where he also Ludwig Wittgenstein heard. In 1943 he entered again into the Czech army and participated in the French campaign. His doctorate in philosophy took place in 1944. Shortly afterwards he married Edith Laner ( Edita Leah Lowy ), who also came from Czechoslovakia and later became known by the introduction of IT in healthcare in Britain.

After the war, grains initially worked as a German teacher at Cardiff University. In 1947 he obtained a position as a lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he was appointed to a professorship in 1952. This position he held until his retirement in 1979. Grains had a visiting professor at Brown University ( Providence / Rhode Iceland, 1957), Yale University ( 1960 and 1970), University of North Carolina ( Chapel Hill, 1963), Texas University (1964) and Indiana University (1967). From 1970 to 1979 he had a common place at Yale and Bristol. Thereafter, until 1984, completely at Yale. From 1980 to 1989 he also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Graz. Grains received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University of Belfast (1981) and the University of Graz (1986). Honorary Member ( Honory fellow ), he was appointed in 1987 and Bristol in Cambridge in 1991.

After a diagnosis of lung cancer in advanced stage with Edith grains, the couple took life together.

He is the father of the mathematician Thomas William grains.

Writings

• Kant 1955. ( German: Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1967)
• Conceptual Thinking. In 1955.
• (Ed.) Observation and interpretation: a symposium of philosophers and physicists. In 1957.
• The Philosophy of Mathematics. In 1960.
• Experience and Theory. In 1966.
• What is Philosophy? In 1969.
• Categorial frameworks. In 1970.
• (Ed.) Practical Reason. In 1974.
• (Ed.) Explanation. In 1976.
• Experience and Conduct. In 1976.
• Metaphysics: its structure and function. In 1984.