Self-Knowledge
A History
Edited by Ursula Renz
Author Information
Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She has widely published about early modern philosophy, Neo-Kantianism and the history of philosophy mind. Her book Die Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung. Realismus und Subjektivität in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (2010), was awarded with the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2011, and will be translated in English by Oxford University Press.
Contributors:
Marcel van Ackeren is Visiting Professor for Philosophy in Berne (Switzerland). He worked on Ancient philosophy, esp. Heraclitus, Plato and Marcus Aurelius. He published a two-volume monograph on Marcus Aurelius and edited Blackwell's Companion to Marcus Aurelius. He also works on Moral Demandingness and co-edited the The Limits of Moral Obligation for Routlegde. He also is interested in the relation of historical and systematic perspective in Philosophy and will edit Philosophy and the Historical Perspective (Proceedinges of the British Academy) for Oxford University Press.
Johannes Brachtendorf is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Catholic Theology (University of Tübingen), and held several visiting appointments in the US, Austria and Chile. In 2002 he was holder of the Augustinian Endowed Chair in the Thought of Augustine at Villanova University/USA. He is author of Fichtes Lehre vom Sein. Eine kritische Darstellung der Wissenschaftslehren von 1794, 1798/99 und 1812 (1995), Die Struktur des menschlichen Geistes nach Augustinus. Selbstreflexion und Erkennntis Gottes in De Trinitate (2000), and Augustins Confessiones (2005). He has published translations of Augustine's De libero arbitrio (2006) and of Thomas Aquinas' On happiness (Summa Theologiae I-II q. 1-5) (2012), is the editor of the Latin-German edition of Augustine's complete works (Augustinus - Opera/Werke), and co-editor of the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine.
Dina Emundts is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She is author of Kant's Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum (2004) and of Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit (Frankfurt 2012). She edited Self,World, Art. Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel (2013) and is the editor (together with Sally Sedgwick) of the International Yearbook of German Idealism.
Yasmine Espert is an Art History doctoral candidate at Columbia University and an alumna of the Fulbright U.S. Student program. Her research interests include the cinematic medium, the Caribbean, and diaspora. She is the Graduate Fellow for the Digital Black Atlantic Project, a working group supported by the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University.
Aaron Garrett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He specializes in early modern and modern moral and political philosophy. He is author of many articles on modern philosophy, Meaning in Spinoza's Method (2003) and Berkeley's Three Dialogues (2008), and editor of numerous works including critical editions of Francis Hutcheson and John Millar, Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, (with James Harris) Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, and the forthcoming (with James Schmidt) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of the Enlightenment.
Charles Guignon did his graduate work at Heidelberg and Berkeley and has published works such as Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (1983), "What Is Hermeneutics?" (1999, in Re-envisioning Psychology), the collection The Good Life (1999), On Being Authentic (2004), together with books and essays on existentialism, Dostoevsky, Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor and others. He is currently professor at the University of South Florida.
Rachana Kamtekar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Her specialization is in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially ancient ethics, politics, and moral psychology. Most of her published articles are on Plato, but she has also published on Aristotle, the Stoics, and virtue ethics, both ancient and contemporary. She is currently writing a book entitled Desire and the Good: An Essay on Plato's Moral Psychology.
John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. His publications include Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought (2000); the Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling (2003; second edition under contract); and Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-love (2013). He is co-editor, with George Pattison, of The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (2013). Other interests include the virtues; the philosophy of love and friendship; the relationship between philosophy and theology; and the relevance of philosophy to psychotherapy.
Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely on medieval philosophy (especially Christian Neoplatonism) and contemporary European philosophy (especially phenomenology). His books include Introduction to Phenomenology (2000), Edmund Husserl. Founder of Phenomenology (2005), Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences: An Introduction (2012), and, co-authored with Joseph Cohen, The Husserl Dictionary (2012). He has edited Husserl's Logical Investigations, 2 vols. (2001), and The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (2008). In 2012 he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.
Tobias Myers is Assistant Professor of Classics at Connecticut College. His research has focused on narrative strategy in Greek poetry, particularly Theocritus and Homer. He is finishing a book-length analysis of the Iliad's gods in their role as observers of the poem's action.
Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His current research focuses on theories of mind in late medieval and early modern philosophy. His books include Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality (ed., 2001), Theorien der Intentionalität im Mittelalter (2002), Zweifel und Gewissheit: Skeptische Debatten im Mittelalter (2006), Transformationen der Gefühle. Philosophische Emotionstheorien 1270-1670 (2011), The Faculties: A History (ed., 2015).
Laura Quinney teaches English and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, William Blake on Self and Soul and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery.
Bernard Reginster is Professor and Chair in the Philosophy Department at Brown University. He has published extensively on issues in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy.
Pauliina Remes is professor in theoretical philosophy, especially history of philosophy, in Uppsala University. She is the author of Plotinus on Self. The Philosophy of the 'we' (2007) and Neoplatonism (2008), as well as the editor, together with Svetla-Slaveva Griffin, of The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (2014). Remes has also published articles on Plato.
Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She is author of Die Rationalität der Kultur. Kulturphilosophie und ihre transzendentale Begründung bei Cohen, Natorp und Cassirer (2002), Die Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung. Realismus und Subjektivität in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (2010), and co-editor of Handbuch Klassische Emotionstheorien (2008, second edition 2012), and Baruch de Spinoza. Ethica more geometrico demonstrata. A Collective Commentary. Her book Die Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung has been awarded with the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize 2011.
Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy at the Universität Leipzig. He previously served as Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and as Ordinarius für Philosophie at the University Basel. Among his publications are Categories of the Temporal (2012), and Self-Consciousness (2007).
Christopher Shields is the George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame. He is an Honorary Research Fellow and formerly Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He is the author Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Notes (2015), Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (1999), Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (2003; revised and expanded as Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary (2012)), and, with Robert Pasnau, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (2nd edition 2015). He is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (2002) and The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (2013).
Christina Van Dyke received her PhD from Cornell in 2000 and is professor at the philosophy department of Calvin College. She has published widely on medieval philosophy and is currently working on a book on Aquinas on Happiness, in connection with her new translation and commentary on Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness (with Thomas Williams). She is also editing a four-volume Major Works in Medieval Philosophy for Routledge.
Christopher Wood is Professor and Chair at the German Department, New York University. Before coming to NYU, he held appointments at Yale University, University of California (Berkeley), Vassar College, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and has been awarded several fellowships (American Academy in Rome, American Academy in Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna; the Kolleg-Forschergruppe BildEvidenz at the Freie Universität Berlin; and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation). Wood is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (1993, reissued with new Afterword, 2014); Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (2008) (awarded the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship); and Anachronic Renaissance (with Alexander Nagel) (2010). He is the editor of The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s (2000).