Helmut Wautischer is an

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. He is a retired senior

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lecturer at

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. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Bundeshandelsakademie Klagenfurt and a PhD in philosophy from Karl-Franzens University of Graz where he studied with Rudolf Haller and Ernst Topitsch. He was inspired by the writings of

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and received a

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for research on this subject at

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, leading to his dissertation, ''Methodology and Knowledge. Proposing an Expanded Science of Man.'' He has published essays in scholarly journals, such as ''

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'', ''Prima Philosophia'', ''Dialogue and Humanism'', ''

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'', ''Shaman'', ''Journal of Ritual Studies'', and ''Journal of Ethical Studies''. He presented papers at the World Congresses of Philosophy (Moscow 1993, Boston 1998, Istanbul 2003, Athens 2013, Beijing 2018), Tucson Center for Consciousness Studies,

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, the Austrian Association for Philosophy, International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing, and other venues. He is the current president of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America since 2006, and is the founding editor (with Alan M. Olson) and

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of the online journal ''Existenz''. and was an elected member to the SSU Academic Senate.

Books

*''Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology'', *''Ontology of Consciousness: Percipient Action'', *''Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity'', Springer Verlag
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References

External links

Sonoma State University Faculty

American Philosophical Association

Karl Jaspers Society of North America

''Existenz''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wautischer, Helmut 1954 births Living people American philosophers American philosophy academics Sonoma State University faculty Philosophical anthropology Writers from Klagenfurt