DANIEL COHNITZ
Position: Professor of Theoretical Philosophy
Contact: cohnitz (at) ut.ee, personal homepage
Main research interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Logic, Philosophy and History of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Art.
Education:
Düsseldorf University, PhD Diploma in Philosophy, Title of Thesis: Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie (Thought Experiments in Philosophy) awarded 06.12.2005, summa cum laude;
Düsseldorf University, Magister Artium (Double Major in Philosophy and Medieval History), June 1999;
Düsseldorf University, Studies in History, Philosophy, German Literature and Language, Sociology, Information Science, and Linguistics, 1994-1999.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1) Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie. Paderborn: Mentis 2005.
2) Information and Information Flow. An Introduction. Co-authored with Manuel Bremer. Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos 2004.
3) Nelson Goodman. Co-authored with Marcus Rossberg. Chesham: Acumen [Philosophy Now series] 2006.
4) “Modal Skepticism: Philosophical Thought Experiments and Modal Epistemology.” In: The Vienna Circle and Logical Positivism [Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 10/2002]. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003, 281-296.
5) “Is Compositionality an apriori principle?” In: Markus Werning, Edouard Machery, Gerhard Schurz (eds.): The Compositionality of Concepts and Meanings: Foundational Issues. Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos 2005, 23-58.
6) “Ørsted’s ‘thought experiment’: A Kantian Foundation of the Calculus?” [in German: “Ørsteds ‘Gedankenexperiment’: eine Kantianische Fundierung der Infinitesimalrechnung? Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte von ‘Gedankenexperiment’ und zur Mathematikgeschichte des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts] Kant-Studien. Accepted for Publication, Forthcoming.
7) (with Barry Smith) “Assessing Ontologies: The Question of Human Origins and Its Ethical Significance.” In: E. Runggaldier and C. Kanzian (eds.): Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Vienna: öbv&hpt 2003, 243-259.
