Sebastian Rödl
German philosopher (born 1967)
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Sebastian Rödl (born 1967) is a German philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at the University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2012 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Basel.
Sebastian Rödl | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Selbstbezug und Normativität (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albrecht Wellmer |
| Other advisor | John McDowell |
| Influences | Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Gadamer, Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Albrecht Wellmer, John McDowell |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | German Idealism |
| Institutions | Universität Leipzig, Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism |
| Main interests | Self-consciousness, Absolute Idealism, Metaphysics, Meta-ethics |
| Notable works | Self-Consciousness and Objectivity |
| Influenced | Robert Pippin[1][2] |
Biography
Rödl studied philosophy, musicology, German literature and history in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Albrecht Wellmer.[3] His work focuses on the self-conscious nature of human thought and action. His main influence is Hegel, and he sees himself as introducing and restating Hegel's Absolute Idealism in a historical moment that is fraught with misgivings about the merits and even the mere possibility of such a philosophy.[4]
Publications
- Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, Harvard University Press 2018.[5]
- Categories of the Temporal. An inquiry into the forms of the finite understanding, Harvard University Press 2012.
- Self-Consciousness, Cambridge/Mass., London: Harvard University Press 2007.
- "Law as the Reality of the Free Will", in A. Speer et al. (eds.), The New Desire for Metaphysics, Berlin: De Gruyter 2015.
- "Joint Action and Recursive Consciousness of Consciousness", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14/4, 2015.
Articles
- "Logic, Being and Nothing". Hegel Bulletin. 40 (1): 92–120. April 2019. doi:10.1017/hgl.2018.20. ISSN 2051-5367.
- "Logical Form as a Relation to the Object". Philosophical Topics. 34 (1/2): 345–369. 2006. ISSN 0276-2080.