Peter Rohs (born 11 January 1936) is a German philosopher.

Academic career

Born in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

, Rohs received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

in 1964 from

Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

with a thesis on

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

and

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1975 at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He was a private lecturer for philosophy since 1975 and from 1985 to 1986 he was managing director of the Forum für Philosophie in

Bad Homburg Bad Homburg vor der Höhe () is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, on the southern slope of the Taunus mountains. Bad Homburg is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. The town's offic ...

. Since 1986 Rohs has been teaching as professor at the Philosophy Department of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. At the centre of his thinking is the systematic project of a field-theoretical

transcendental philosophy In philosophy, transcendence is the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages. It includes philosophies, syste ...

: he combines a field-theoretical interpretation of

nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...

with a transcendental-philosophical theory of

subjectivity Subjectivity in a philosophical context has to do with a lack of objective reality. Subjectivity has been given various and ambiguous definitions by differing sources as it is not often the focal point of philosophical discourse.Bykova, Marina F ...

. Rohs sees

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

as a bracket, he refers to the English philosopher John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart.

Work

* ''Transzendentale Ästhetik''. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1973. * ''Transzendentale Logik''. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976. * ''Die Vernunft der Erfahrung. Eine Alternative zum Anarchismus der Wissenschaftstheorie''. Verlag Anton Hain Meisenheim, Königstein im Taunus 1979. * ''Die Zeit des Handelns. Eine Untersuchung zur Handlungs- und Normentheorie''. Verlag Anton Hain Meisenheim, Königstein im Taunus 1980. nschaft der Logik''. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1982. *

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kan ...

. C.H. Beck, München 1991. * ''Form und Grund. Interpretation eines Kapitels der Hegelschen Wissenschaft der Logik''. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1982. * ''Feld-Zeit-Ich. Entwurf einer feldtheoretischen Transzendentalphilosophie''. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1996. * ''Abhandlungen zur Feldtheoretischen Transzendentalphilosophie''. Lit-Verlag, Münster 1998. * ''Der Platz zum Glauben''. Mentis, Münster 2013. * ''Mind and the present. Outline of an analytic transcendental philosophy''.''Mind and the present. Outline of an analytic transcendental philosophy''
on WorldCat Mentis, Münster 2020.

Literature

* Marcus Willaschek (ed.): ''Feld-Zeit-Kritik. Die feldtheoretischen Transzendentalphilosophie von Peter Rohs in der Diskussion.'' Lit-Verlag, Münster 1997

References

External links

Peter Rohs an der Universität Münster

Kritische Darstellung der Philosophie von Peter Rohs durch Marcus Willaschek
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohs, Peter 20th-century German philosophers Academic staff of the University of Münster 1936 births Living people Writers from Jena