Victor Lange

Biographic Data

ID3681500
NAMEVictor Lange
GIVEN NAMESVictor
FAMILY NAMELange
SIGNATURELANGE V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0003-3079-1125
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1941
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • On the Epistemic Significance of Convergence in Ethical Theory

    Open AccessKlemens Kappel, Frederik J Andersen et al.ARTICLEEthical Theory and Moral Practice2026

    The major ethical theories—welfarist consequentialism, Kantianism, contractualism, common sense morality, and virtue ethics—appear to converge on the same practical advice in many situations. Such convergence seems epistemically significant. A natural thought would be that the convergence should assure us about the advice. However, what would be the rationale behind this—why should the convergence increase our assurance? That’s the main question …

  • Philosophical theorising about the rumination of depression

    Open AccessVictor LangeARTICLEMind & Language2026

    Rumination is a central factor in depression and philosophers are increasingly interested in the phenomenon. Yet there is a gap between the philosophical and psychological discussions. This paper aims to narrow this gap by defending three interrelated claims. First, philosophical theorising must acknowledge that rumination involves two constructs—brooding and pondering—where brooding is characteristic of depression. Second, empirical work suggest…

  • A Reductive Account of Mindfulness as Metacognitive Control

    Open AccessVictor LangeARTICLEReview of Philosophy and Psychology2025

    Mindfulness is a large research field, involving disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and Buddhist studies. Despite this widespread interest, one question remains unanswered: Is there a psychological capacity that is essential to mindfulness and which demarcates mindfulness from most other mental activities? The most promising idea is that mindfulness is a special form of metacognitive control. Yet, I ar…

  • Decentering and attention

    Victor LangeARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2025

    Clinical psychologists describe decentering as the mental operation in which a subject “moves out” of immersion in a mental state. Such decentering is philosophically puzzling. It involves that a subject attends to her mental state to distance herself from it. That is, she attends to the state to make it less determining of her processing. This paper provides a philosophical explanation of the nature of decentering. It analyses decentering as a c…

  • Flow and Athletic Experts

    Open AccessVictor LangeARTICLEErkenntnis2025

    Philosophers frequently refer to ‘flow’ when discussing skill and expertise. This is especially clear when considering the ‘flow argument’ advocated by the Automatic view. Although the Automatic view is a minority position today, many philosophers and scientists endorse the flow argument or central parts of it. The present paper argues that the argument is implausible in the light of current psychological research. It proceeds in two steps. First…

  • Transparency and the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis

    Open AccessVictor Lange, Thor GrünbaumARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2024References: 55

    Many philosophers endorse the Transparency Thesis, the claim that by introspection one cannot become aware of one's experience. Recently, some authors have suggested that the Transparency Thesis is challenged by introspective states reached under mindfulness. We label this the Mindfulness Opacity Hypothesis. The present paper develops the hypothesis in important new ways. First, we motivate the hypothesis by drawing on recent clinical psychology …

  • Measurement Scepticism, Construct Validation, and Methodology of Well-Being Theorising

    Open AccessVictor Lange, Thor GrünbaumARTICLEErgo an Open Access Journal of…2023

    Precise measurements of well-being would be of profound societal importance. Yet, the sceptical worry that we cannot use social science instruments and tests to measure well-being is widely discussed by philosophers and scientists. A recent and interesting philosophical argument has pointed to the psychometric procedures of construct validation to address this sceptical worry. The argument has proposed that these procedures could warrant confiden…

  • New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism

    Richard E Amacher, Victor LangeBOOKNew Perspectives in German…2015

  • Goethe, Volume 9

    Open AccessJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Eric A Blackall et al.BOOKGoethe, Volume 91995Cited by: 5

    An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795–1796), Goethe’s second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre—perhaps the first Bildungsroman , a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restri…

  • The Critical Idyll

    Victor Lange, Peter MorganARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1993

  • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

    David E Wellbery, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe et al.BOOKWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship1989

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella

    Ellis Dye, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1989

    Prefatory Note ix The Sorrows of Young Werther (translated by Victor Lange) 1 Elective Affinities (translated by Judith Ryan) 89 Novella (translated by Victor Lange) 263 Notes 281 Afterword 283

  • The Classical Age of German Literature 1740-1815

    Beth Bjorklund, Victor LangeARTICLEModern Language Notes1985

  • The Classical Age of German Literature, 1740-1815

    Peter Salm, Victor LangeARTICLEThe German Quarterly1984

  • Interpretation und Edition deutscher Texte des Mittelalters

    William C Mcdonald, Kathryn Smits et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1983

  • New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism

    Russell A Berman, Richard E Amacher et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1980

    Presented here are selected critical essays from five volumes of the Poetik und Hermeneutik series published in Germany by the Wilhelm Fink Verlag of Munich. These essays represent some of the newest and most advanced thinking of fifteen leading scholars in the German-American interdisciplinary school of literary criticism. Until now no single volume has provided such an extensive contemporary treatment of literatures, problems, and methodologies…

  • Humanistic Scholarship in America. The Princeton Studies

    Joaquin Gonzalez Muela, Victor LangeARTICLEHispanic Review1971

  • Modern Literature

    Joseph G Fucilla, Victor LangeARTICLEItalica1970

  • "German Literature," Modern Literature II

    Reinhold Grimm, John R Frey et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1969

  • Zur Entstehungsgeschichte Von Goethes Wanderjahren

    Open AccessVictor LangeARTICLEGerman Life and Letters1969

  • Thomas Mann. A Collection of Critical Essays

    Victor Lange, Henry Hatfield et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1965

  • Deutsche Beitraege zur geistigen Ueberlieferung

    Victor Lange, Arnold BergstraesserARTICLEThe German Quarterly1955

  • Moriz Enzinger, Adalbert Stifters Studienjahre Hermann Kunisch, Adalbert Stifter

    Victor LangeARTICLEThe Germanic Review Literature…1952

  • C harles N eider , The Frozen Sea

    Victor LangeARTICLEThe Germanic Review Literature…1949

    (1949). Charles Neider, The Frozen Sea: A Study of Franz Kafka. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 150-153

  • No Voice Is Wholly Lost

    Victor Lange, Harry SlochowerARTICLEThe German Quarterly1946