Biography:Lorenz Bruno Puntel
Lorenz Bruno Puntel | |
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| Born | September 22, 1935 Sobradinho, Brazil |
| Education | University of Munich |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Analytic philosophy Structuralism |
Main interests | Philosophy of science Philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | Structural-systematic philosophy Philosophical theory of everything |
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Lorenz (Lorencino) Bruno Puntel (German: [punˈteːl]; born September 22, 1935) is a Brazilian philosopher based in Germany , who established the school of Structural-systematic philosophy.[1][2] Professor emeritus at the University of Munich, Puntel has been named as one of the great contemporary philosophers, articulating his ideas from the most varied traditions.[3][4][5][6]
Career
Puntel studied philosophy, theology, philology and psychology in Munich, Innsbruck, Vienna, Paris, and Rome. He graduated in philosophy in Munich (1968) and in Catholic theology (1969) in Innsbruck. He became a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Munich in 1978. He was a student of Karl Rahner and studied with Martin Heidegger, whose philosophy concerned him throughout his life.[7]
Philosophical work
Puntel's thought tries to reconstruct the systematics of philosophy from a very unique viewpoint, which involves the elaboration of a theoretical language, abandoning the idea of a language of predicates. Puntel draws on sources ranging from G. W. Leibniz, German idealism, Heidegger's phenomenology, and even analytic philosophy.[8]
Awards
Since 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Pittsburgh, Harvard and Princeton. Retired in 2001, In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Philosophy in Munich.[9]
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Munich (Professor Emeritus)
- Findlay Book Prize[10]
Bibliography
- Analogy and historicity. Philosophical-historical-critical attempt at the basic problem of metaphysics. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1969.
- Presentation, method and structure. Investigations in the Unity of Systematic Philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1973.
- Theories of Truth in Modern Philosophy. A critical and systematic presentation. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN:3534072588. 3rd edition 1993.
- (Editor, Introduction) The concept of truth. New attempts at explanation. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN:3-534-02134-7.
- Basics of a theory of truth. W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN:3-11-012079-8.
- Structure and being. A theoretical framework for a systematic philosophy. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN:3-16-148963-2.
- Being and God. A systematic approach in dealing with M. Heidegger, E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN:978-3-16-150146-3.
- with Emmanuel Tourpe: Philosophy as a systematic discourse. Dialogues about the basics of a theory of beings. Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014.
References
- ↑ Lawrence, Joseph P. "Structure and Being: A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy." The Review of Metaphysics 63.4 (2010): 937.
- ↑ PUNTEL, Lorenz B. Structure and being: a theoretical framework for a systematic philosophy. Penn State Press, 2010.
- ↑ LMU München: Schwerpunkte in Forschung & Lehre (abgerufen am 24. November 2014)
- ↑ NEGARESTANI, Reza. Intelligence and Spirit. Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2018. p.72
- ↑ White, Alan. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything: Contributions to the Structural-systematic Philosophy. A&C Black, 2014. p.4-25
- ↑ de Oliveira, M.A.. "THE METAPHYSICS OF THE PRIMORDIAL BEING, L.B. Puntel and the challenge of rethinking metaphysics", Loyola, 2019, ISBN:8515045788
- ↑ Selbstauskunft, Vortrag "Heidegger" WWU Münster am 15. Dezember 2010
- ↑ version française de Emmanuel Tourpe, Philosophie als systematischer Diskurs, Fribourg- Munich, Karl Alber, 2014 p.3-4
- ↑ LMU München: Curriculum Vitae (abgerufen am 24. November 2014)
- ↑ "Metaphysical Society - Awards & Prizes". https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/awards.htm.
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