Peter Hacker

Peter Michael Stephan Hacker ( born July 15, 1939 in London) is an English philosopher, who has become known as Wittgenstein specialist and discussed with the Australian neuroscientist Max R. Bennett close cooperation to clarify the conceptual foundations of neuroscience.

Training

Peter Hacker studied from 1960 to 1963 Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Queen's College, University of Oxford. 1963-1965 he was a Senior Scholar at the city's St Antony 's College. Here he began under the supervision of Professor HLA Hart with his dissertation "Rules and Duties " which he in 1966 during a year as a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College awarded the degree of Ph.D. was able to complete.

Academic positions

Peter Hacker belongs since 1963 to the teaching staff of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Oxford and taught at St John 's College. As a visiting professor he taught in 1968 at Makerere College in Uganda, 1973 at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and in 1974 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, in 1985 as Milton C. Scott Visiting Professor at Queen 's University in Kingston, Canada, and in 1986 again mentioned at Swarthmore College. 1985 to 1987 he held a research professorship in the humanities, to which he of the British Academy - was chosen - "The National Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences". 1991 to 1994 he was supported by the Research Fellowship Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship.

Editorial Boards

Since 1993, Peter Hacker co-editor of the journal Philosophical Investigations ( Blackwell, Oxford) and since 1994 also a member of the International Panel co-editor of Wittgenstein 's studies of the German Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Passau. 1997 to 2003 he was co-editor of the 20th Century Philosophers - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1998-2003 Curator of the Wittgenstein papers and member of the editorial board; He is a member and secretary of the Advisory Committee of Wittgenstein editor since 2003.

Writings

Book publications

  • 2006 from Ch. 14.4 and 14.5. Philosophy and neuroscience In: Dieter Sturma (ed.): Philosophy and Neuroscience. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt ( stw 1770) pp. 20-42 ISBN 3518293702
  • 2010 The philosophical foundations of neuroscience. Translated from English by Axel Walter. With a foreword by Annemarie Gethmann - Siefert. WBG, Darmstadt ISBN 978-3534228775
  • 2010 neuroscience and philosophy. Brain, mind, and language. ( Introduction and Conclusion by Daniel Robinson, translated by Joachim Schulte ) Suhrkamp, Berlin ISBN 978-3518585429

Article

Interviews

  • 2002 By the danger of forgetting Wittgenstein - The Wittgenstein researcher Peter Hacker in conversation with Edward Kanterian. Information Philosophy, December 2002 ( Issue 5 ), pp. 102-115 (online here, a much more extensive eng Interview with Edward Kanterian on Nov / Dec 2001 here. .. )
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