Eugen Fischer 1 CURRICULUM VITAE EUGEN FISCHER School of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of East Anglia GB Norwich NR4 7TJ born: 22. May 1970 married, one child (born 1.10.2001) Tel. (office): 01603 593416 Fax. (office): 01603 250434 Email: E.Fischer@uea.ac.uk in: Hamburg, Germany nationality: German Academic Degrees BPhil in philosophy, Oxford 1993 DPhil in philosophy, Oxford 1996 Habilitation in philosophy, Munich 2002 Current Employment Since 1.09.2006 (on leave 1.09.06-28.2.09 due to Heisenberg Readership below) Lecturer in Philosophy level B, permanent (cp. Assoc. Prof. with tenure) University of East Anglia Norwich (England) Previous Employment 1.05.2005 28.2.2009 (on leave 1.9.05 30.6.06 due to NIAS Fellowship below) 1.11.2004 31.08.2006 (on leave since 1.5.05) Heisenberg Research Reader 3-year fixed-term Senior Lecturer in Philosophy level C2 (cp. untenured Assoc. Prof.) German Research Council (DFG) Ludwig-Maximilians- University (LMU), Munich 1.4.1999 31.10.2004 Lecturer / Assistant Professor level C1 1.4.1997 31.3.1999 Post-doctoral Researcher level BAT 2a LMU Munich LMU Munich Visiting Appointments 1.09.2007 28.2.2009 Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge Cambridge
Eugen Fischer 2 1.10.2006-31.7.2007 Senior Research Fellow Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest 1.9.2005 30.6.2006 Golestan Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar 1.9. 31.12.1998 Visiting Scholar at the Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology New York University New York Education and Habilitation 2002 Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich 1993-6 University of Oxford Oxford 1991-93 University of Oxford Oxford 1989-91 Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau 1988-89 J.W.Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Habilitation in philosophy areas of thesis: philosophy of perception (epistemology and metaphysics) and metaphilosophy; areas of lectures: philosophy of psychology; Plato. approbation: July 11 th, 2002 DPhil in philosophy area of thesis: philosophy of language supervisor: Gordon Baker co-supervisor: Martin Davies viva: December 17 th, 1996 BPhil in philosophy papers and tutors: philosophical logic (Tim Williamson), Plato (Michael Frede), Wittgenstein (Peter Hacker), thesis on Wittgenstein s later philosophy of logic and mathematics (Gordon Baker). Exams: June 1993 (not graded) Undergraduate studies in: philosophy, gen. linguistics, criminal law. Intermediary Examinations: philosophy: May 90, Grade: 1.0 linguistics: July 91, Grade: 1.0 Undergraduate studies in philosophy (participation at examinations with special permission while still at high-school) principal teachers: Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas, Ursula Wolf Major Scholarships 1998 Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (while Visiting Scholar at New York University, New York, invited by Ned Block)
Eugen Fischer 3 1994-96 Doctoral Research Fellow of the German National Scholarship Foundation: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (proposed by Michael Frede) 1992-93 Graduate Scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 1990-93 Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (proposed by Karl-Otto Apel) Major Research Grants award: March 2006 For 1.10.2006 31.7.2007 Senior Research Fellowship Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study EUR 20.000 award: March 2005 for 1.5.2005 28.2.2008 award: June 2004 for 1.9.2005 30.6.2006 Heisenberg Research Readership Golestan Fellowship German Research Council EUR 180.000 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar EUR 40.000 Areas of Research philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, meta-philosophy; 17 th century philosophy, twentieth-century analytic philosophy Research interests: linguistic understanding, visual perception, cognitive distortions, metaphilosophical questions and philosophical methodology. Historical interests: Wittgenstein and the Austro-British strand of analytic philosophy; early modern philosophy of perception with its roots in, and implications for the philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, from Galileo to Berkeley. Teaching Competencies: epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic; Plato, early modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy. Publications Monographs (1) Linguistic Creativity. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 2000 (vol.81 of the Philosophical Studies Series, ed. by Keith Lehrer) (2) Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy. London & New York: Routledge, 2010 Edited volumes (3) Eugen Fischer & Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.): The Questions of Philosophy. An Introduction to Areas and Periods (in German: Die Fragen der Philosophie. Eine
Eugen Fischer 4 Einführung in Disziplinen und Epochen). Munich: C.H.Beck, 2003 (4) Erich Ammereller & Eugen Fischer (eds.): Wittgenstein at Work. Method in the Philosophical Investigations. London: Routledge, 2004 (Paperback 2010) Journal Articles (1) On the Very Idea of a Theory of Meaning for a Natural Language, Synthese, vol. 111 (no.1), April 1997, pp. 1-16 (2) Dissolving Problems of Linguistic Creativity, Philosophical Investigations, vol. 20 (no.4), October 1997, pp. 290-314 (3) Plato s Inquiry into the Forms of Virtue: A Case-Study on Nature and Point of Non- Descriptive Metaphysics (in German: Platos Untersuchung der Formen der Tugend: Eine Fallstudie zur Frage: Was ist und was soll nicht-deskriptive Metaphysik?). Philosophisches Jahrbuch, vol. 107 (no. 1), April 2000, pp. 95-115 (4) Unfair to Physiology, Acta Analytica, vol. 16 (no.26), July 2001, pp. 135-55 (5) Discrimination: A Challenge to First-Person Authority?, Philosophical Investigations, vol. 24 (no.4), October 2001, pp. 330-46 (6) Bogus Mystery about Linguistic Competence, Synthese, vol. 135 (no.1), April 2003, pp. 49-75 (7) Austin on Sense-Data: Ordinary Language Analysis as Therapy, Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 70, 2005, pp. 67-99 (8) Philosophical Pictures, Synthese, vol. 148 (no.2), January 2006, pp. 469-501 (9) Wittgenstein s Non-Cognitivism Explained and Vindicated, Synthese, vol. 162 (no.1), May 2008, pp. 53-84 (10) Philosophical Pictures and Secondary Qualities, Synthese, vol. 171 (no.1), November 2009, pp. 77-110 (11) How to Practice Philosophy as Therapy: Philosophical Therapy and Therapeutic Philosophy, forthcoming in: Metaphilosophy 42 (3), April 2011 (12) Diseases of the Understanding and the Need for Philosophical Therapy, forthcoming in: Philosophical Investigations Book Chapters (13) Philosophy of Mind: Scientific World-View vs. Human Self-Conception (in German: Philosophie des Geistes: Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung gegen menschliches Selbstbild), in: E.Fischer & W.Vossenkuhl (eds.): Die Fragen der Philosophie, Munich: C.H.Beck, 2003, pp. 70-88 (14) Eugen Fischer & Wilhelm Vossenkuhl: What Is Philosophy? (in German: Was ist Philosophie?), in: E.Fischer & W.Vossenkuhl (eds.): Die Fragen der Philosophie, Munich: C.H.Beck, 2003, pp. 7-14
Eugen Fischer 5 (15) A Cognitive Self-Therapy Philosophical Investigations sections 138-97, in: E.Ammereller & E.Fischer (eds.): Wittgenstein at Work. Method in the Philosophical Investigations, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 86-126 (16) Eugen Fischer & Erich Ammereller: Aims and Method in the Investigations, in: E.Ammereller & E.Fischer (eds.): Wittgenstein at Work, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. ix-xix (17) Therapy Instead of Theory. The Big Typescript as Key to Wittgenstein s Later Conception of Philosophy (in German: Therapie statt Theorie. Das Big Typescript als Schlüssel zu Wittgensteins später Philosophieauffassung), in: Stefan Majetschak (ed.): Wittgensteins 'große Maschinenschrift', Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2006, pp. 31-59 (18) Therapy as a Philosophical Project (in German: Therapie als philosophisches Projekt), in: Gunter Gebauer, Fabian Goppelsroeder, Joerg Volbers (eds.): Wittgenstein Philosophie als Arbeit and Einem selbst, Munich: Fink, 2009, pp. 167-93 Conference Proceedings (19) Bogus Finitude, Forschungsberichte des Instituts für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation München, vol. 37, 2001, pp. 111-26 (20) A Puzzle about Colour Discrimination, in: A.Beckermann & C.Nimtz (eds.): Argument and Analysis. Selected Papers Contributed to the 4th International Congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy, Paderborn: Mentis, 2002 (21) Dream Scepticism: From an Illusory Solution to the Outline of a Dissolution (in German: Traumskepsis: Von der Illusion einer Lösung zum Ansatz einer Auflösung), in: R. Bluhm & C. Nimtz (eds.): Philosophy and/as Science. Selected Papers Contributed to the 5th International Congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy, Paderborn: Mentis, 2004, pp. 182-92 (22) Imaginary Experiences: Wittgenstein s Analysis of a Philosophical Urge (in German: Eingebildete Empfindungen: Wittgensteins Analyse eines philosophischen Triebes ), in: M. Reicher et al. (eds.): Experience and Analysis. Proceedings of the 27 th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vienna: öbv&hpt, 2004 (23) The Invention of Secondary Qualities. How Metaphorical Models Drive Abstract Reflection, in: H. Bohse, K. Dreimann & S. Walter (eds.): Philosophy: Foundations and Applications. Selected Papers Contributed to the 6th International Congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy, Paderborn: Mentis, 2007 (24) Philosophical Pictures and the Birth of the Mind, in: Volker Munz et al. (ed.): Language and World, Proceedings of the 32 nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Wien: öbv & hbt, 2009 - under review: (25) Treacherous Intuitions, under review at a journal (26) Through Pictures to Minds, under review at a journal (27) Through Pictures to Perceptions, contribution to Frank Ebersole and Ordinary Language Philosophy, ed. by Phil Hutchinson, which is currently under review.
Eugen Fischer 6 Theses The 'Autonomy' of 'Grammar': A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Necessity, BPhil-thesis, Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1993 Dissolving Problems of Linguistic Creativity, DPhil-dissertation, Oxford: Bodleian, 1996 Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy. Presenting Problem and Approach, Habilitationsthesis. Submitted at the LMU Munich, November 2001 Conference Contributions and Guest Lectures (1) Seriously Therapeutic Philosophy, invited contribution to the 34. International Wittgenstein-Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2011 (2) Through Pictures to Perceptions, Contribution to the conference Ebersole, Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy, Manchester, England, 15.-16.4.2010 (3) Philosophical Pictures and the Birth of the Mind, Contribution to the 32. International Wittgenstein-Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, 9.-15.8.2009 (4) The Alienation of the World: On the Rediscovery of Secondary Qualities, Guest lecture at the University of Augsburg, Germany, 21.7.2009 (5) The Invention of the Mind A New Epistemology of Philosophy, Contribution to the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Norwich, 10.-12.7 2009 (6) Philosophical Pictures and Philosophical Intuitions, Contribution to the conference The Roles of Intuitions in Philosophy, Norwich, 10.7.2009 (7) Vicious Intuitions: Non-Intentional Analogical Reasoning in Philosophy, Contribution to the Arché Conference on Philosophical Methodology, University of St Andrews, 25.- 27.4.2009 (8) Philosophical Pictures: Miscarriages of Implicit Knowledge. Guest lecture at the University of Potsdam, Germany, 12.1.2009 (9) Metaphorical Extension: Linguistic Innovation and its Philosophical Pitfalls. Guest lecture at the Philosophical Institute, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 9.1.2009 (10) The Invention of the Mind: A Presentation of Cognitive Epistemology Guest lecture at the Philosophical Institute, University of Magdeburg, Germany, 10.11.2008 (11) Philosophy as Therapy: Therapeutic Philosophy vs. Philosophical Therapy, Opening keynote lecture of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference, Philosophy as Therapeia, Liverpool, 19.-21.6.2008 (12) Wittgenstein s Profound Non-Cognitivism. Opening lecture of the Conference Backwards and Forwards: Questions of Method, organized by the Nordic Wittgenstein Network, Norwich, 15.-16.2.2008 (13) Philosophical Pictures and Secondary Qualities: The Roots of Sense-data. Guest lecture at the Dept. of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 20.3.2007
Eugen Fischer 7 (14) Philosophical Pictures and the New Science, Fellow lecture at the Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, 9.11.2006 (15) Therapy as a Philosophical Project, Contribution to the conference Philosophy as a Form of Life: Wittgenstein s Philosophy in Theory and Practice, organized by the Dept. of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6.-7.10.2006 (16) The Invention of Secondary Qualities, Contribution to: 6 th International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Berlin, Germany, 11.-14.9.2006 (17) Secondary Qualities: How Philosophical Pictures Drive Abstract Reflection, Guest lecture at the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9.6.2006 (18) Cognitive Distortions in Abstract Reflection, Lecture delivered to the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society, Harnack-House, Berlin, Germany, 14.2.2006 (19) Philosophical Pictures in Cognitive Science. Guest lecture at the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, 27.5.2005 (20) Imaginary Experiences: Wittgenstein s Analysis of a Philosophical Urge. Contribution to: 27 th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, 8.- 14.8.2004 (21) Linguistic Creativity: A Mess, its Nature, and its Causes. Guest lecture delivered to the joint philosophy seminar (faculty and graduate) of the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 3.3.2004 (22) Wittgenstein s Non-Cognitivism. Talk delivered to the Wittgenstein work-shop at the Dept. of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 14.11.2003 (23) The Vision of Phenomenalism: A Case-Study on the Nature of Comprehensive Metaphysical Systems. Contribution to: 5 th International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 22.-26.9.2003 (24) Traumskepsis: Von der Illusion einer Lösung zum Ansatz einer Auflösung. Contribution to: 5 th International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 22.-26.9.2003 (25) Träume Ich? Das Ungenügen des Kohärenzkriteriums. Guest lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany, 29.10.2002 (26) Wittgenstein s Investigation of Understanding: A Cognitive Self-Therapy. Given at: Wittgenstein s Later Philosophical Methods. Conference at Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 11.-14.9. 2002 (27) Phänomenalistische Delusion: Eine bislang unerkannte Art von philosophischem Scheinproblem. Guest lecture at the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 8.5.2002 (28) Bogus Finitude. Contribution to: Human and Machine Perception. Conference organised by: Graduiertenkolleg Sprache, Mimik, Gestik im Kontext technischer Informationssysteme, Munich, Germany, 13.-15.11.2001 (29) Explaining Experience: An Illusory Gap. Guest lecture at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 10.11.2000 (30) A Puzzle about Discrimination. Contribution to: 4 th International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 26.-29.9.2000
Eugen Fischer 8 (31) The Bug-bear of Finitude. Guest lecture at the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Eastern Piemont, Vercelli, Italy, 4.4.2000 (32) Linguistic Creativity: An Underrated Problem. Contribution to: 3 rd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Maribor, Slovenia, 29.6.-4.7.1999 (33) Unfair to Physiology. Contribution to: Wittgenstein on Intentionality and Consciousness. Conference at the Catholic Academy, Munich, Germany, 27.-30.9.1998 (34) Linguistic Creativity: Hairier Than We Thought. Contribution to: 3 rd International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Munich, Germany, 15.- 18.9.1997 (35) New Sentences for Finite Minds. Contribution to: The Theory of Meaning and New Semantics. Symposion of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, organised by the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Oberstdorf, Germany, 11.-14.9.1997 Conferences Organised Philosophy as Therapy: Wittgenstein and Beyond. Co-organised with Rupert Read and John Collins, Norwich 25.-26.3.2011 The Roles of Intuitions in Philosophy. Satellite-conference preceding the Joint Session 2009, co-organised with Oskari Kuusela, Norwich, 10.7.2009 Wittgenstein s Later Philosophical Methods. Conference at the Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 11.-14.9. 2002. Co-organised with Erich Ammereller. Supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation and the Munich University Society. Waismann and Wittgenstein. Symposium at the Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 28.3.-1.4.2000. Supported by the Munich University Society Chairperson at conferences in Venice (2002), Bielefeld (2003) and Berlin (2006). Refereeing Member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, since 1.10.2007 Referee for the Oxford University Press and the journals: Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung Teaching Experience At the University of East Anglia, Norwich, since March 2009, convenor and lecturer of three biannually offered advanced undergraduate modules (lectures and seminars): - Knowledge and Perception - Philosophy of Philosophy - The Empiricists Convenor and co-lecturer of the annual undergraduate module:
Eugen Fischer 9 - Introduction to Philosophy Supervision of students on the Master of Research (MRes) and MPhil/PhD programmes. Teaching on the joint research training programme of the Humanities Graduate School. At the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, from summer semester (SS) 1997 SS 2005: - Philosophy of Mind, MPhil class (plus tutorials), SS 05 - Berkeley s Epistemology and Metaphysics, undergrad. class, SS 05 - Philosophy of Perception. A Historical Introduction, ug class, WS 04/05 - Logical Positivism (module in European Analytic Philosophy), graduate class, WS 04/05 - European Analytic Philosophy, lecture and MPhil-class, SS 2004 - Philosophy of Mind, MPhil-class (plus tutorials), SS 04 - Perception and Cognition, graduate class, WS 03/04 - The Later Wittgenstein, ug class, WS 03/04 - Berkeley s Epistemology and Metaphysics, ug class, SS 03 - Philosophy of Mind, MPhil class (plus tutorials), SS 03 - European Analytic Philosophy, lecture and MPhil class, WS 02/03 - Classical and Analytic Phenomenalism (from Berkeley to Ayer), ug class, WS 02/03 - Analytic Conceptions of Philosophy, graduate class, SS 02 - Philosophy of Mind, MPhil class (plus tutorials), SS 02 - The Areas and Periods of Philosophy, joint lectures (convenor), SS 02 - The Later Wittgenstein, graduate class, WS 01/02 - Philosophical Scepticism, ug class, WS 01/02 - The Areas and Periods of Philosophy, joint lectures (convenor), SS 01 - Epistemology: 20 th Century Texts, MPhil class, SS 01 - Philosophy of Mind, MPhil class (plus tutorials), SS 01 - The Later Wittgenstein, graduate class, WS 2000/01 - Ethics: Classical Texts, ug class, WS 00/01 - Epistemology: 20 th Century Texts, MPhil class, SS 00 - Introduction to Epistemology, ug class (E), WS 99/00 - Ethics: Classical Texts, ug class, WS 99/00 - Philosophical Scepticism, ug class, SS 99 - Introduction to Epistemology, ug tutorials, SS 99 - Plato: Epistemology and Metaphysics, ug class, SS 98 - Informal Logic (Logisch-semantische Propädeutik), first-year class, SS 98 - History and Philosophy of Science, guest lecture series (convenor, with M. Segre), WS 97/98 - Informal Logic (Logisch-semantische Propädeutik), first-year class, WS 97/98 - Perception: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology, ug class, (E) WS 97/98 - Philosophy of Mind, ug class, SS 97 Average teaching load: 2 courses per semester. Examinations and supervisions: In addition, I participated annually, as either first or second examiner, at Master and Intermediary Examinations, and co-supervised four PhD-projects. At the University of Oxford in the academic years 1993/94 and 1994/95 I taught the undergraduate classes
Eugen Fischer 10 - Formal Logic for Prelims I - Formal Logic for Prelims II for: St. John s College From Michaelmas Term 1993 to Michaelmas Term 1995 throughout tutorials in the BA Honours Papers: - Philosophical Logic (incl. philosophy of language) - Wittgenstein Average teaching load: 3-4 hours per week for: New College Keble College St. Catherine s College St. John s College External Teaching For the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung): - Wittgenstein s Philosophical Methods, graduate class (with Gordon Baker) at the foundation s summer academy, Salem, 12.-25. August 2001 At Venice International University, Venice, Italy: - The Later Wittgenstein: An Introduction to his Philosophical Methods, graduate class, March 2000 - From Sense-Data to Scepticism, graduate class (with Christian Klotz), February 1999 Administrative Experience Director of Graduate Studies (Masters programmes), School of Philosophy, UEA, since September 2008 President of the Philosophical Society, UEA, since September 2008 Web content manager of the School of Philosophy, UEA, since September 2007 Organiser of the Faculty Forum (faculty research seminar) of the School of Philosophy, UEA, since September 2007 Founding Executive Director of the MPhil-programme in philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians- University, Munich, 1.4.1999-31.3.2001. The MPhil is a new Master-programme that combines classes with tutorials (hitherto unfamiliar in Germany), within a new teaching format. The executive director acted as: - Programme Development Co-ordinator - Admissions Officer - Examinations Officer - Head Administrator - Public & Sponsor Relations Officer Once the programme had been successfully set up, these functions were devolved on a committee within which I continued to be concerned with programme development, until July 2005.
Eugen Fischer 11 Extra-Academic Work Experience: Intern at Andersen Consulting, Process Management Competency, Transportation & Travel Services Group, Frankfurt office, Jan.-March 1997 Languages: German and English: fluent French: good Ancient Greek and Latin June 9 th 2010