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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.
| 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
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The Four Causes.
Submitted as Habilitationsschrift, Leipzig 2009. |
 Conscientia bei Descartes.
Alber Verlag, Freiburg 2006. |
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Gibt es eine Rehabilitation der
Cartesischen Psychologie?
Master Thesis, Leipzig 2000. |
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"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. |
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"Tugenden und Absichten," |
Philosophisches Jahrbuch 115(1), 2008, 165-182. |
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"Substance, Reality, and Distinctness," |
Prolegomena 7(1), 2008, 5-20. |
| "Cartesian Conscientia," |
British
Journal for the History of Philosophy 15(3), 2007, 455-484. |
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"Der Fortbestand von Lebewesen," |
Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie,
32(1), 2007, 81-91. |
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"Naturteleologie, reduktiv," |
Philosophisches Jahrbuch 113(2),
2006, 296-315. |
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"Conscientia bei Descartes," |
Zeitschrift für
Philosophische Forschung 60(1),
2006, 21-36. |
| "Schuld und Gewissen bei
Abelard," | Dialektik
1/2003, 129-143. |
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"Consciousness as Spontaneous Knowledge" |
in James Hill, ed.,
Essays on the Concept of Mind iin Early Modern Philosophy,
forthcoming. |
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"Is Causation a Relation?" |
in Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham, eds.,
Causation and Modern Philosophy,
Routledge, forthcoming. |
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"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. |
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"Zeitliche Entitäten: Geschehnisse," |
in Ludger Jansen, ed.,
Biomedizinische Ontologie. Zürich:
VDF Hochschulverlag 2008, 127-154. |
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"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. |
| "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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 05/22 |
2005 |
"Complex Procedures Instantiated by their
Proper Parts", 7th International Symposium on Logical
Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece.
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| 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. |
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| 06/01 |
2004 |
"Practical Knowledge",
Institut für Philosophie, HU Berlin. |
| 10/20 |
2004 |
"Teleologie und Praxis",
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig |
Courses
| SoSe
2010 | Aristoteles,
Kategorien | Leipzig |
| SoSe
2009 | Aristoteles,
Physik | Leipzig |
| SoSe
2008 | Thomas von Aquin, Traktat
über die Tugenden | Hamburg |
| SoSe
2008 | Zur
Geschichte des Begriffs der Ursache | HU Berlin |
| WS
2006/07 | Erkennen und Handeln
(zur "direction of fit") | HU Berlin |
| WS
2006/07 | Anscombe über
Absichten und
Tugenden | Hamburg |
| Spring
2006 | History of modern
philosophy: Descartes-Kant (slides /
pdf) | Pittsburgh |
| Spring
2006 | Rationalism:
Descartes & Spinoza
(pdf
here) | Pittsburgh |
| Spring
2006 | Topics in 20th c. Contintental
Philosophy: Heidegger (pdf
here) | Pittsburgh |
| WS
2005/06 | Ps-Dionysius: Die Namen
Gottes (pdf; revidierter
Plan hier) | Hamburg |
| Fall
2005 | Types and tokens | SUNY Buffalo |
| SoSe 2005 |
Locke,
Essay II,xxvii (pdf) | HU Berlin |
| SoSe 2005 |
Types
and tokens (pdf) | HU Berlin |
| WS 2004/05 | Thomas
von Aquin, S. Th. IaIIae q. 1-21 | Hamburg |
| SoSe 2004 | Kant, Prolegomena |
Leipzig |
| WS 2003/04 | Descartes, 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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