Hans-Joachim Niemann
Hans -Joachim Niemann ( born 1941 in Kiel ) is a German philosopher and author.
Biography
Niemann studied chemistry and philosophy at the universities of Kiel, Munich, Marburg and Tübingen. In 1970 he received his diploma in Physical Chemistry in Tübingen and in 1972 he received his PhD in Dr. rer. nat. After working in industrial research - laser isotope separation at the KWU AG (Siemens AG) - he was from 1993 to 1999 lecturer at the University of Bamberg in 1994 and held a guest lecture on critical rationalism at the University of Passau. He has worked as a philosopher and freelance writer with the research areas of critical rationalism, critical -rational ethics and philosophy criticism. He is co-founder of the Frankish Society for Philosophy (Bamberg ), the Society for Critical Philosophy ( Nuremberg, Germany) and co-founder and co-editor of education and criticism.
Publications
- Hans -Joachim Niemann, The utility maximizers. The Resistible Rise of benefit thinking, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011; 230 pages. ISBN 978-3-16-150856-1.
- Hans -Joachim Niemann, The strategy of reason. Problem-solving rationality, rational metaphysics, and critical -rational ethics, 2 improved and expanded edition, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008; 306 pages. ISBN 978-3-16-149878-7.
- Hans -Joachim Niemann, Encyclopedia of critical rationalism, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004; 432 pp., ISBN 3-16-148395-2; unchanged study edition in paperback in 2006, ISBN 3-16-149158-0. For quick information about the thousand key terms and arguments of Popper ( and Hans Alberts ) Supercritical rationalism. With numerous cross-references and references to the original text passages.
- Hans -Joachim Niemann, The strategy of reason. Rationality in knowledge, morals and metaphysics, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1993; 188 pp., ISBN 3-528-06522-2. An unauthorized, unchanged Broschurausgabe published by Springer ( 31 July 2012), ISBN 978-3-322-86602-8.
Translations and editions
- Karl Popper, knowledge, and the mind-body problem. A defense of the interaction theory (English Knowledge and the Body -Mind Problem, 1994, and The Self and Its Brain, 1977), ( = Karl R. Popper, The Collected Works in German; Vol. 12), translated and edited by Hans Niemann -Joachim, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-150290-3.
- Karl Popper, Realism and the aim of science (English Realism and the Aim of Science, 1983) ( = Karl R. Popper, The Collected Works in German; Vol. 7), translated by Hans -Joachim Niemann, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16147772-3.
- Karl Popper, Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics (English Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics, 1982) ( = Karl R. Popper, The Collected Works in German; Vol. 9), translated by Hans -Joachim Niemann, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16147568-2.