Albrecht Wellmer
Wellmer Albrecht ( born July 9, 1933, Mountain Churches ) is a German philosopher.
Biography
1953 graduated from the High School Wellmer on classical languages Gymnasium in Minden. Studies of mathematics and physics (at times music) in Berlin and Kiel ( 1954-1961 ), he joined in 1961 by the state exam (mathematics and physics) at the University of Kiel from.
From 1961 to 1966 he studied philosophy and sociology in Heidelberg and Frankfurt and received his PhD in 1966 (philosophy) in Frankfurt with the dissertation methodology as epistemology. For the theory of science Karl Popper. In the years 1966-1970 Albrecht Wellmer was assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the Philosophy Department of the University of Frankfurt. 1971 and his habilitation (philosophy) at the University of Frankfurt with the Scriptural interpretation and causality. Critique of Hempel - Oppenheim model of explanation.
As an Associate Professor Albrecht Wellmer worked in the seventies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Toronto, 1970-1972 ) and at the New School for Social Research in New York ( 1972-1975 ). He was in the same period 1973-1974 Fellow at the Max Planck Institute ( Starnberg ) to study the living conditions of the scientific and technical world. From 1974 to 1990 was Albrecht Wellmer Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, 1985-1987 Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York and since 1990 Associate Professor of Philosophy (Department of Aesthetics, Hermeneutics and Human Sciences) at the free University of Berlin; Professor emeritus since September 2001.
Visiting Professorships: Haverford (USA), Stony Brooke (USA), the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris, 1988), New School for Social Research (New York, 1995 ), University of Amsterdam (1996).
Awards
2006 - Theodor W. Adorno Prize