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Brief description

Boris Hennig, born 1974.
Studied Philosophy, Psychology and Logic / Theory of Science in Freiburg i. Br., Leipzig (Germany), and Dublin (Ireland). PhD about 'conscientia' in Descartes 2004.
2005 assistant teacher at the Humboldt University Berlin, 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Currently researcher at the Humboldt Universität Berlin (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Publications in the Journal of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and others.

Languages: English, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Arabic.

Miscellaneous Qualifications: Latin Paleography, Mathematical Logic, programming skills in LaTeX, HTML and Java.


Curriculum Vitae

1993 Student of Philosophy and Psychology in Freiburg Br.
1995 Philosophy and Logic / Theory of Science at the University of Leipzig.
1996/97 Exchange student at the University College Dublin, Ireland.
1999 Language Certificate for Modern Arabic at the Institute for Oriental Studies in Leipzig.
2000 Master Thesis about Cartesian psychology ("Gibt es eine Rehabilitation der Cartesischen Psychologie?").
2001-02 Instructor for the programming language JAVA in Leipzig.
2001-04 Instructor at the Universities Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz. Class topics include Augustine, medieval and early modern philosophy, contemporary action theory and philosophy of mind.
2002-03 Assistant teacher for logic and philosophy at the Technical University Dresden (Prof. Heinrich Wansing).
2004 PhD thesis about Descartes' notion of consciousness ("Was bedeutet `conscientia' bei Descartes?"). Predicate summa cum laude (Prof. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Jürgen Engfer, Dominik Perler).
2004-07 Teaching philosophy classes at the University of Hamburg.
2004-07 Researcher at the IFOMIS in Saarbrücken (Prof. Barry Smith).
Spring 2005 Assistant teacher at Humboldt University, Berlin (Prof. Dominik Perler).
Fall 2005 Teaching at the SUNY at Buffalo.
2005 Karl Alber Preis awarded for PhD thesis.
Spring 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Fall 2007-09 Feodor Lynen fellow at the University of Pittsburgh (Prof. Nicholas Rescher).
2008-10 Researcher funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Humboldt Universität Berlin.


Publications

The Four Causes. Submitted as Habilitationsschrift, Leipzig 2009.
Conscientia bei Descartes. Alber Verlag, Freiburg 2006.
Gibt es eine Rehabilitation der Cartesischen Psychologie? Master Thesis, Leipzig 2000.
 
"Kants Modell kausaler Verhältnisse," Kant Studien, forthcoming.
"Science, Conscience, Consciousness," History of the Human Sciences, forthcoming.
"The Four Causes," The Journal of Philosophy 106(3), 2009, 137-60.
"Matter in Z3," Foundations of Science 13, 2008, 199-215.
"Tugenden und Absichten," Philosophisches Jahrbuch 115(1), 2008, 165-182.
"Substance, Reality, and Distinctness," Prolegomena 7(1), 2008, 5-20.
"Cartesian Conscientia," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15(3), 2007, 455-484.
"Der Fortbestand von Lebewesen," Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 32(1), 2007, 81-91.
"Naturteleologie, reduktiv," Philosophisches Jahrbuch 113(2), 2006, 296-315.
"Conscientia bei Descartes," Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 60(1), 2006, 21-36.
"Schuld und Gewissen bei Abelard,"Dialektik 1/2003, 129-143.
"Consciousness as Spontaneous Knowledge" in James Hill, ed., Essays on the Concept of Mind iin Early Modern Philosophy, forthcoming.
"Is Causation a Relation?" in Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham, eds., Causation and Modern Philosophy, Routledge, forthcoming.
"Descartes," in Tina-Louise Fischer und Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, eds., Geschichte der Bioethik, Paderborn: mentis Verlag, forthcoming (?).
"What is Formal Ontology?" and
"Occurrents,"
in Katherine Munn and Barry Smith, eds., Applied Ontology. An Introduction, Ontos Verlag 2008, 39-56 and 255-284.
"Zeitliche Entitäten: Geschehnisse," in Ludger Jansen, ed., Biomedizinische Ontologie. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag 2008, 127-154.
"Ghazali on Immaterial Substances," in Christian Kanzian and Muhammad Legenhausen, eds., Substance and Attribute in Islamic Philosophy. Western and Islamic Tradition in Dialogue. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag 2007, 55-66.
"Social Facts Explained and Presupposed," in Nikos Psarros and Katinka Schulte-Ostermann, eds., Facets of Sociality. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag 2006, 243-263.
"Holistic Arguments for Individualism," in Georg Meggle, ed., Social Facts & Collective Intentionality. Frankfurt: Hänsel Hohenhausen 2002, 103-123.
"Luhmann und die Formale Mathematik," in P.-U. Merz Benz, G. Wagner, eds., Die Logik der Systeme. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag 2000, 157-198.
Johannes Haag, Erfahrung und Gegenstand Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, Heft 3, 2007, p. 209-14.
C. Pawlenka, Sportethik Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Beiträge 45, 2004, p. 152-157.
"Disposition" Hans Jörg Sandkühler et al., ed., Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Hamburg: Meiner Verlag 2010.

Presentations

12/10 2009 "Suches", Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh.
04/08 2009  "Eine Verteidigung des typologischen Artbegriffs", Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig.
06/19 2008 "Consciousness as Spontaneous Knowledge", The Concept of Mind from Descartes to Hume, Prague, June 19-21.
05/21 2008  "Verursachung", Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig.
03/26 2008 "Causation and the Unity of Events", Annual BSHP Spring Conference "Causation 1500-2000," University of York, March 25-27.
03/19 2008 "Virtues and Intentions", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, March 19-20.
11/16 2007 "Austin Explains Kant: The direction of fit and the Copernican turn", Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh.
06/20 2007  "Absichten und Tugenden", Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock.
05/21 2007 "The Immaterial Substance", International Philosophical Conference: Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy, Samobor (Croatia), May 20-23.
04/14 2007 "Final Causes and Practical Inference" (slides), 2nd Workshop on Causality and Motivation, April 13-14, Rome.
03/31 2007 "On Reducing Final Causes" (pdf; slides) 2e Congrès de la Société de philosophie des sciences, March 29-31, Genève.
03/28 2007 "The Inner Man as Substantial Form" (slides), First International ESEMP Congress, March 26-30, Essen.
02/06 2007  "Inwiefern der Geist eine immaterielle Substanz ist", Institut für Philosophie, Universität des Saarlandes.
01/26 2007 "Matter in Z3" (slides), Aristotelian Encounters, Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
01/17 2007  "Finalursachen" (slides), Department Philosophie, Universität Hamburg.
09/25 2006   "Korrigierbarkeit als das Merkmal des Mentalen", Jahresversammlung der Görres Gesellschaft, Sektion Philosophie.
08/11 2006 "Al-Ghazali on the Incoherence of 'Substance'", 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, August 6-12.
04/04 2006 "Final Causality", Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
10/26 2005 "Corrigibility as the Mark of the Mental", Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo.
10/01 2005 "Documents", Topics in Ontology, SUNY Buffalo.
08/10 2005 "Temporal Extension", 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, August 6-13.
06/04 2005 "Functional Reasoning", Norms, Reasoning and Knowledge in Technology, Boxmeer, the Netherlands, June 3-4.
05/26 2005 "No Identity without Agency", Identity: Ontological Perspectives, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, May 25-27.
05/22 2005 "Complex Procedures Instantiated by their Proper Parts", 7th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece.
01/22 2005 "Parts of Processes", Aspects of Mereotopology and Granularity in Bioontologies, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, January 21-22.
01/13 2005  "Conscientia bei Descartes", Philosophische Theorien des Geistes in der Frühen Neuzeit, Heidelberg, January 13-15.
06/01 2004  "Practical Knowledge", Institut für Philosophie, HU Berlin.
10/20 2004   "Teleologie und Praxis", Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig

Courses

SoSe 2010Aristoteles, KategorienLeipzig
SoSe 2009Aristoteles, PhysikLeipzig
SoSe 2008Thomas von Aquin, Traktat über die TugendenHamburg
SoSe 2008Zur Geschichte des Begriffs der UrsacheHU Berlin
WS 2006/07Erkennen und Handeln (zur "direction of fit")HU Berlin
WS 2006/07Anscombe über Absichten und TugendenHamburg
Spring 2006History of modern philosophy: Descartes-Kant (slides / pdf)Pittsburgh
Spring 2006Rationalism: Descartes & Spinoza (pdf here)Pittsburgh
Spring 2006Topics in 20th c. Contintental Philosophy: Heidegger (pdf herePittsburgh
WS 2005/06Ps-Dionysius: Die Namen Gottes (pdf; revidierter Plan hier)Hamburg
Fall 2005Types and tokensSUNY Buffalo
SoSe 2005 Locke, Essay II,xxvii (pdf)HU Berlin
SoSe 2005 Types and tokens (pdf)HU Berlin
WS 2004/05Thomas von Aquin, S. Th. IaIIae q. 1-21 Hamburg
SoSe 2004Kant, Prolegomena Leipzig
WS 2003/04Descartes, Meditationes Chemnitz
WS 2003/04 Augustinus, Confessions (pdf)Leipzig
WS 2003/04 Bewusstsein und Gewissen (pdf)Leipzig
SoSe 2003 Augustinus über die Seele (pdf)Leipzig
SoSe 2003 Descartes, Morale provisoire (pdf) Dresden
WS 2002/03 Geschichte des Bewusstseinsbegriffes (pdf) Dresden
SoSe 2002 Verantwortungsethik (pdf) Leipzig
WS 2001/02  Philosophie des Geldes (pdf) (mit N. Psarros) Leipzig
SoSe 2001 Person und Selbst (pdf) (mit S. Rödl)Leipzig
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