Udo Thiel (born 19 September 1954) is a German Philosopher and Professor i. R. at the Department of Philosophy at the

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, Austria. He studied philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Bonn and Oxford. In 1982 he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Hans Wagner at the

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. Prior to his appointment as professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Graz in 2009, he held positions at the

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and the

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in Canberra. Since November 2022 he has been a Visitor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century

epistemology Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

and

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the Body (biology), body and the Reality, external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a ...

. He is a member of the Editorial Board of '' Locke Studies''. In 2013 Udo Thiel was elected a Corresponding Member of the

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(ÖAW). In 2014 he received the Styrian government Award (Forschungspreis) for his research in

early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) Richard Schacht, ''Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant'', Routledge, 2013, p. 1: "Seven men have come to stand out from all of their counterparts in what has come to be known ...

Selected publications

* ''Self and Sensibility: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind''. Ed. by D. Hüning, S. Klingner, G. Motta u. G. Stiening, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. * ''Selbstbewusstsein und Reflexion. Studien zur Philosophie des Geistes von Locke bis Kant''. Ed. by D. Hüning, S. Klingner, G. Motta u. G. Stiening, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2024, XIII, 343 pp. * “Ernst Cassirer’s ''Die Philosophie der Aufklärung'' or: Was there an Enlightenment?”, in ''Aufklärung'' 35 (2023), 27-75. * (Ed., with G. Motta and D. Schulting), Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception. New Interpretations. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2022, XIV, 648 pp. * (Ed., with Giuseppe Motta), ''Immanuel Kant: Die Einheit des Bewusstseins''. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017, VI, 284 pp. * ''The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume''. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011, xiv, 484 pp. 2nd Edition (Paperback) 2014, xvi, 484 pp. * (Ed., with Gideon Stiening), ''Johann Nikolaus Tetens (1736-1807). Philosophie in der Tradition des europäischen Empirismus''. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014, 434 pp. * (Ed.), ''Locke: Epistemology and Metaphysics''. Aldershot: Ashgate-Dartmouth 2002, XXII, 525 pp. * (Ed.), ''Philosophical Writings of Thomas Cooper''. 3 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes 2001. * (Ed.), ''John Locke: Essay über den menschlichen Verstand''. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (Klassiker auslegen, vol. 6) 1997, VII, 302 pp. Second Edition 2008. * ''John Locke''. Reinbek/Hamburg: Rowohlt 1990, 158 pp. (Rowohlts Monographien, vol. 450). Second Edition 2000. * ''Lockes Theorie der Personalen Identität''. Bonn: Bouvier 1983, 216 pp. Second Edition 1991.

Festschrift

Rudolf Meer, Giuseppe Motta and Gideon Stiening (eds.), ''Konzepte der Einbildungskraft in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Udo Thiel''. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2019, XX, 509 pp.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thiel, Udo 1954 births Living people 21st-century German philosophers German philosophy academics Academic staff of the University of Graz Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Scholars of modern philosophy