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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | History of Philosophy,Theoretical Philosophy |
| Keywords | German philosophy, Philosophy of language, Epistemology |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Bonn |
| Institution | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| Institute | Institut für Philosophie |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fohrmann | Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2013 |
Programme(s)
| 2012 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship |
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Nominator's project description
| Michael Neil Forster owes his reputation as a philosopher with a globally unique profile not least to his work on the connection between modern language philosophy and its Romantic roots in Herder’s writing. In his work, he combines the Anglo-American analytic philosophy approach with the continental approach, and is thus considered an important representative of those who examine the historical connections between these two schools of thought. His areas of specialisation include the philosophy of German idealism in Kant and Hegel, ranging all the way to the hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer. At the University of Bonn, Forster is to help develop the newly founded Internationales Zentrum für Philosophie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and thus raise the international profile of philosophy at Bonn. |