Andreas Kemmerling (born 21 February 1950 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) is a German

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. He works in the analytic tradition.

Life

Kemmerling studied

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from 1968 to 1972 in

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Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

and

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

. In 1976 he got a doctor degree. After his so-called "Habilitation" in 1981 in

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

he was visiting professor at the

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. From 1983 until 1999 he was professor in Munich. Since 1999 he is professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in

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. Kemmerling is a co-founder of the European Society for Analytical Philosophy and organizes the Heidelberger Kompaktseminar every year. In the Heidelberger Kompaktseminar a distinguished philosopher is invited to present his most recent work on a certain topic. In the past the following philosophers have held a Kompaktseminar Brian Loar,

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, Christof Rapp, Wolfgang Künne, Thomas Hofweber and

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Achievements

Part of Kemmerling's achievements are his works on philosophy of language, especially on

Paul Grice Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language. He is best known for his theory of implicature and the cooperative prin ...

, and in

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, in particular on Descartes.

Works

*Was Grice mit "Meinen" meint - Eine Rekonstruktion der Griceschen Analyse rationaler Kommunikation, Forschungsberichte des IPK der Universität München 8, 1977, 121–166. *Mentale Repräsentationen, Kognitionswissenschaft 1 (1991), 47–57. *Descartes über das Bewußtsein, in Studia Philosophica 55 (1996), Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Philosophischen Gesellschaft, 85 - 114. *Zur sog. Naturalisierung von Intentionalität, in: A. Burri (Hrsg.), Sprache und Denken, Berlin/New York 1997, 237-258 (eine frühere Fassung erschien in: Wittgenstein Studies 1997). *Gricy Actions, in: G. Cosenza (ed.), Paul Grice's Heritage, Brepols 2001, 69–95. *Die erste moderne Konzeption mentaler Repräsentation, in: U. Meixner/A. Newen (Hrsg.), Seele, Denken und Bewußtsein — Zur Philosophie des Geistes von Platon bis Husserl, Berlin/New York 2003, 153 - 196. *Ideen des Ichs - Studien zu Descartes' Philosophie, Frankfurt a.M. ²2005. *Glauben. Essay über einen Begriff, Frankfurt a.M. 2017.

External links

Homepage an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg
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