Markus Wild
I'm professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. I work both in contemporary philosophy (both analytical and continental) and in the history of philosophy. My research in the philosophy of mind, biology, and language focuses on the prospects of naturalism, trying to follow the consequences of the idea that human beings are essentially animals (see my paper on "Tierphilosophie"). However, my conception of naturalism is very broad, indeed, e.g. it includes Goethe's idea of an intuitive understanding (see my paper on "Intuitionen, intuitiver Verstand, Intuition"). In 2012 I started a research project (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF) on Biosemantics and Normative Pragmatism in Fribourg. Rebekka Hufendiek (from Berlin) and Pietro Snider (from Lausanne) are both co-workers in this project. In July 2012 we organized among other things a workshop with Karen Neander (Duke University) on her forthcoming book on teleosemantics.
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Philosophisches Seminar
Universität Basel
Steinengraben 5
CH-4051 Basel
Address: Prof. Dr. Markus Wild
Philosophisches Seminar
Universität Basel
Steinengraben 5
CH-4051 Basel
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Books by Markus Wild
The manuscript is in need of revision on two different levels: Firstly, the architecture of the book is not clear enough, it contains too much material, and the exposition of Millikan’s point of view could be more straight forward. Secondly, two important arguments do not work in their present shape, namely the argument for self-consciousness in non-human animals (section 4.4) and the argument from animalism against the infamous swampman problem (sections 4.1-4.3). I have received many valuable comments, suggestions, and criticisms.
Obviously, my current SNF-Project at the University of Fribourg “Biosemantics and Normative Pragmatism (Millikan and Brandom)” is a continuation of the Habilitation into the realms of concepts, thought, and self-consciousness."
Papers by Markus Wild
The manuscript is in need of revision on two different levels: Firstly, the architecture of the book is not clear enough, it contains too much material, and the exposition of Millikan’s point of view could be more straight forward. Secondly, two important arguments do not work in their present shape, namely the argument for self-consciousness in non-human animals (section 4.4) and the argument from animalism against the infamous swampman problem (sections 4.1-4.3). I have received many valuable comments, suggestions, and criticisms.
Obviously, my current SNF-Project at the University of Fribourg “Biosemantics and Normative Pragmatism (Millikan and Brandom)” is a continuation of the Habilitation into the realms of concepts, thought, and self-consciousness."