Dominik Perler

Dominik Perler ( born March 17, 1965 in Fribourg, Switzerland) is a philosopher and since 2003 Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2006 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most important German Science Award.

Life

Perler studied philosophy and Russian Studies at the Universities of Fribourg, Bern and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1991, he works in 1992/93 as an assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1993 to 1995 as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. He habilitated in 1996 at the University of Göttingen with the work " representation in Descartes ." Subsequently, he held teaching positions at the University of Oxford (1996-1997), as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel (1997-2003), a DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Oldenburg (2001) and at the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne (2002) from. Since 2003 he has taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin. As a result, he has taught at St. Louis University, at the University of Tel Aviv, at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It was in the year 2004/ 05 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, since 2007 Full Member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was from 2007 to 2010 President of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy and held in April 2011, the Leibniz lectures at the University of Hannover.

Work

Perler works primarily with the philosophy of the Middle Ages, the early modern philosophy, and especially to the theoretical philosophy of these epochs. He tried historically and systematically reconstruct vorfindliche theories with today's philosophical methods and jeopardizing the historical positions in the debates of modern analytic philosophy. He became known for this method among other things, his book on theories of intentionality in the Middle Ages. Perler has also worked extensively on the interaction between Christian and Arabic philosophy. Systematically, he also deals with the epistemology and the philosophy of mind. In the philosophy of mind theories of early modern theories of emotion, as well as awareness of animals are the focus of his research interests.