Helmut Pape

Biography

Pape studied philosophy, sociology and English language at the University of Hamburg . From 1977 to 1978 he was a Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Semiotic Studies at Indiana University , Bloomington, USA . In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in Klaus Oehler with a thesis on the perspectivalness natural language and the ontology of the characters, a study of philosophy and semiotics of Charles S. Peirce . After completing his doctorate , Pape worked as a freelance author, philosopher and translator of science fiction and philosophical works in Montjoi ( southern France ) from 1982 to 1985 , where he later organized philosophical conferences within the framework of the Academie du Midi . From 1981 to 1982 he had worked as a documentary for periodical books for Spiegel-Buch Verlag. From 1985 Pape received a post as a university assistant at the University of Freiburg with Klaus Jacobi . In 1987 and 1990, he worked at Nicholas Rescher 's Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh , where he worked on the geometry of the visible. In 1991, Pape received a post as a representative of a "C 2 professorship" at the University of Hanover , where he qualified in 1993 with a thesis on the meaning and mode of visual properties. In 1997 he was at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen Fellow of the working group "Political theory of mass culture." After he finished teaching in Hanover Pape is a freelance philosopher and writer since 2001 in Bamberg and has taught as an adjunct professor philosophy at the University of Bamberg . In 2003, he founded "Vinosophia", a company that linked wines with philosophers and their concepts, and he received the lead of a DFG supplementary project at the University of Bamberg, which was the volume to the Lowell Lectures on Logic in Harvard of 1903 of the American Critical Edition of the works of Charles S. Peirce. From October 2004 to July 2005, Pape worked as a fellow at the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover on "Basics of an Anthropology and Ethics of Compassion". In the winter semester 2006/2007 and summer semester 2007 he represented the "W 3 Professorship" for theoretical philosophy and science theory by Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From October 2009 to September 2010 he worked as a fellow at the led by Horst Bredekamp and John Krois DFG Research Training Group Picture Act and Embodiment at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For one year, summer semester 2009 and winter semester 2010/11, he has presented the Chair of Science Theory and Analytical Philosophy at the University of Augsburg. From April to September 2011, he has again worked as a fellow in the collegiate research group "Bildakt und Einbaustung". In a winter semester 2011/12 he taught at the University of Bamberg in a 1/4 place, which is funded by study fees. In Wintersemester 2012/13 he is a guest professor at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Vienna.

Research Interest

philosophy, sociology and English language