Ansgar Beckermann (born 29 June 1945, in

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) is a German

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

who deals primarily with

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...

and

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

. He is professor for

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at the University of

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and was the president of the "Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie" (German society for analytical philosophy). Beckermann is known for his arguments for

physicalism In philosophy, physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical. Physicalism is a form of ontological monism—a "one substanc ...

and his discussion of the concept of

emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergence ...

Published works

English

*''Emergence or Reduction?'' (with Hans Flohr and

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), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992. *''Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinianism and the Contemporary Philosophy of Mind – Continuities and Changes.'' In: A. Coliva & E. Picardi (ed.): ''Wittgenstein today'', 2004 *''Self-Consciousness in Cognitive Systems.'' In: C. Kanzian. J. Quitterer and E. Runggaldier (ed.) ''Persons. An Interdisciplinary Approach'', 2003 *"The perennial problem of the reductive explainability of phenomenal consciousness - C.D. Broad on the explanatory gap." In:

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(ed.) ''Neural Correlates of Consciousness - Empirical and conceptual Questions'', Cambridge, MIT-Press, 2000

German

*''Klassiker der Philosophie heute'' (with Dominik Perler), Stuttgart: Reclam 2004. *''Analytische Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes''. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. *''Einführung in die Logik''. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997. *''Descartes' metaphysischer Beweis für den Dualismus'', Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 1986. *''Analytische Handlungstheorie''. Bd. 2, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977. *''Gründe und Ursachen''. Kronberg: Scriptor Verlag, 1977.

External links

Beckermann's Homepage

Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckermann, Ansgar German philosophers Philosophers of mind Living people German male writers 1945 births People educated at the Sankt-Ansgar-Schule