Phillip Honenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1313076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Honenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Honenberger |
| SIGNATURE | HONENBERGER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3910-6879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Duhem’s problem revisited
Translating Plessner’s Levels
Eccentric Investigations of (Post-)Humanity
In 1928, a German zoologist and philosopher named Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) published a book titled Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie. Almost a 100 years later, Jos de Mul has edited a collection of 26 new essays on Plessner’s text, titled Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects. The volume offers a variety of advanced discussions of its theme. In this review ess…
Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology
What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Sche
Grene and Hull on types and typological thinking in biology
Animality, Sociality, and Historicity in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Axel Honneth and Hans Joas claim that Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology is problematically 'solipsistic' insofar as it fails to appreciate the ways in which human persons or selves are brought into being and given their characteristic powers of reflection and action by social processes. Here I review the main argument of Plessner's Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie (1928) with th…
History, Before and Beyond the Limit
What is the relation between past and present, and what role does historical research, writing and thinking play in regards to that relation? Does it, for instance, primarily record the features of objective breaks and continuities between past and future (as A. Danto has it) or does it rather institute those breaks and continuities (as C. Fasolt has recently argued)? Here I stress that historical understanding is a basic dimension of understandi…
Animality, Sociality, and Historicity in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Axel Honneth and Hans Joas claim that Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology is problematically 'solipsistic' insofar as it fails to appreciate the ways in which human persons or selves are brought into being and given their characteristic powers of reflection and action by social processes. Here I review the main argument of Plessner's Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie (1928) with th…
Duhem’s problem revisited
Eccentric Investigations of (Post-)Humanity
In 1928, a German zoologist and philosopher named Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) published a book titled Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie. Almost a 100 years later, Jos de Mul has edited a collection of 26 new essays on Plessner’s text, titled Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects. The volume offers a variety of advanced discussions of its theme. In this review ess…
History, Before and Beyond the Limit
What is the relation between past and present, and what role does historical research, writing and thinking play in regards to that relation? Does it, for instance, primarily record the features of objective breaks and continuities between past and future (as A. Danto has it) or does it rather institute those breaks and continuities (as C. Fasolt has recently argued)? Here I stress that historical understanding is a basic dimension of understandi…
Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology
What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Sche
Grene and Hull on types and typological thinking in biology
Animality, Sociality, and Historicity in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Axel Honneth and Hans Joas claim that Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology is problematically 'solipsistic' insofar as it fails to appreciate the ways in which human persons or selves are brought into being and given their characteristic powers of reflection and action by social processes. Here I review the main argument of Plessner's Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie (1928) with th…
Eccentric Investigations of (Post-)Humanity
In 1928, a German zoologist and philosopher named Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) published a book titled Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie. Almost a 100 years later, Jos de Mul has edited a collection of 26 new essays on Plessner’s text, titled Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects. The volume offers a variety of advanced discussions of its theme. In this review ess…
Translating Plessner’s Levels
Duhem’s problem revisited
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · German Social Sciences and History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2 works)