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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. Habilitation about Aristotle's Four Causes 2010.
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. Referees: 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.
2010 Habilitation at Universität Leipzig. Title of thesis: "The Four Causes." Referees: Primin Stekeler Weithofer, James Allen, Christof Rapp.

Publications

The Four Causes. Accepted as Habilitationsschrift, Leipzig 2010.
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 23(3), 2010, 15-28.
"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.
"Descartes." In Tina-Louise Fischer und Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, eds., Geschichte der Bioethik, Paderborn: mentis Verlag, forthcoming (?).
"Is Causation a Relation?" In Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham, eds., Causation and Modern Philosophy, Routledge 2010.
"Consciousness as Spontaneous Knowledge." In Petr Glombicek and James Hill, eds., Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010, 7-27.
"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

6/26 2010: "Aristotle's Argument Against Functionalism" (with Catherine Stinson), HOPOS, Budapest, June 24-27.

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", 2nd Workshop on Causality and Motivation, April 13-14, Rome.

03/31 2007: "On Reducing Final Causes", 2e Congrès de la Société de philosophie des sciences, March 29-31, Genève.

03/28 2007: "The Inner Man as Substantial Form", 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", Aristotelian Encounters, Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, The Netherlands.

01/17 2007:  "Finalursachen", 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 2010, Leipzig: Aristoteles, Kategorien - Seminarplan / Materialien.

SoSe 2009, Leipzig: Aristoteles, Physik

SoSe 2008, Hamburg: Thomas von Aquin, Traktat über die Tugenden

SoSe 2008, HU Berlin: Zur Geschichte des Begriffs der Ursache

WS 2006/07, HU Berlin: Erkennen und Handeln (zur "direction of fit")

WS 2006/07, Hamburg: Anscombe über Absichten und Tugenden

Spring 2006, Pittsburgh: History of modern philosophy: Descartes-Kant

Spring 2006, Pittsburgh: Rationalism: Descartes & Spinoza

Spring 2006, Pittsburgh: Topics in 20th c. Contintental Philosophy: Heidegger

WS 2005/06, Hamburg: Ps-Dionysius: Die Namen Gottes

Fall 2005, SUNY Buffalo: Types and tokens

SoSe 2005, HU Berlin: Locke, Essay II,xxvii (pdf)

SoSe 2005, HU Berlin: Types and tokens (pdf)

WS 2004/05, Hamburg: Thomas von Aquin, S. Th. IaIIae q. 1-21

SoSe 2004, Leipzig: Kant, Prolegomena

WS 2003/04, Chemnitz: Descartes, Meditationes

WS 2003/04, Leipzig: Augustinus, Confessions (pdf)

WS 2003/04, Leipzig: Bewusstsein und Gewissen (pdf)

SoSe 2003, Leipzig: Augustinus über die Seele

SoSe 2003, Dresden: Descartes, Morale provisoire

WS 2002/03, Dresden: Geschichte des Bewusstseinsbegriffes

SoSe 2002, Leipzig: Verantwortungsethik

WS 2001/02, Leipzig: Philosophie des Geldes (mit N. Psarros)

SoSe 2001, Leipzig: Person und Selbst (mit S. Rödl)
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