Martine Nida-Rümelin
Martine Nida- Rümelin ( * 1957 in Munich) is a philosopher and, since 1999, professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her main areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of language. Most of their published work deals with the special status awareness capable beings and aims to develop a non- materialist perspective, which avoids the weaknesses of traditional versions of dualism. Here are the topics of phenomenal consciousness, identity awareness capable beings over time and across possible worlds, and the activity in the action in the center of their research interest. It belongs to the philosophers of the analytic tradition, which rational intuitions and phenomenological reflection attach great importance.
Nida- Rümelin studied philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and political science at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. In 1994 she was awarded the Wolfgang- Stegmüller Prize of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy.
Her dissertation dealt with the put forward by the Australian philosopher Frank Cameron Jackson argument of incomplete knowledge, which is directed against a materialist conception of consciousness and represents one of the most important Qualia -based arguments. Nida- Rümelin reformulation escapes problems, where Jackson's argument seems doomed to fail. Is much debate about their modified version of the Mary thought experiment, received by John Perry as " Nida- Rümelin room" in the debate.
In her postdoctoral she developed a non- reductionist thesis regarding the identity of awareness bodied individuals.
Nida- Rümelin is the daughter of the artist Rolf Nida Rümelin, the granddaughter of the sculptor William Nida Rümelin and the sister of the philosopher and politician Julian Nida- Rümelin.
Selected Publications
- Colors and phenomenal knowledge. A critique of materialist theories of the mind, Conceptus special volume, Academia, St. Augustine in 1993.
- The special status of persons: An anomaly for the theory of practical rationality.: Julian Nida- Rümelin and Ulrike Wessels ( eds ): Practical rationality, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1993, pp. 143-166.
- What Mary could not know. Phenomenal states as an object of belief. In Thomas Metzinger ( ed. ): consciousness, contributions from contemporary philosophy, Schöningh, Paderborn, 1995, pp. 259-282.
- Pseudo- normal vision and color qualia in Stuart Hameroff, Alfred Kaszniak and David Chalmers ( ed. ): Toward a Science of Consciousness III, The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 75-84.
- The view from the inside. To transtemporal identity awareness capable beings. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
- Dualist emergentism, in Jonathan Cohen & Brian McLaughlin, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell Publishing.
- The person as the author of their actions. Comments on the interpretation of neurobiological data in Adrian Egger Holder, among other things (ed. ), brain research and human image, Fribourg Academic Press, 2008.
- The conceptual origin of subject body dualism, in Colliva Annalisa (ed. ): Self and Self - Knowledge, Oxford University Press.