Manfred Weltecke
Position: Adjunct Lecturer
Email: welteckm@tcd.ie
Research Interests: Kant's theoretical philosophy; Kant's moral philosophy and contemporary Kantian ethics (especially Korsgaard); Ancient Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology
Education
Ph.D. (Philosophy) Trinity College Dublin – Title: "Kant's Realism"
Erstes Staatsexamen (Philosophy and Biology) Universität Bonn, Germany
Current & Recent Teaching
PI2003 Texts I Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Foundations of Morality and On the Freedom of Human Will
PI3003 Topics in Ancient Philosophy (JS3)
PI3007 Moral Philosophy (JS7)
Publications
Conference Proceedings
"How Robust is Kant's Realism?" (Proceedings of the 11th International Kant Congress), Pisa, Italy, May 2010. (forthcoming)
Translations
Books:
Michael O'Shea The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005)
John Polkinghorne Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2002)
(These books were published by Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart, 2005 and 2007)
Articles:
Christoph Horn "Was ist falsch an einer moralischen Deutung von Kants politischer Philosophie?" (forthcoming)
Christoph Horn "Warum zwei Epochen Menschheitsgeschichte? Zum Mythos des Politikos" (forthcoming)
Reviews
Poétique du Possible: Phénoménologie herméneutique de la figuration, Richard Kearney, 1988, in Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 41 (4) pp. 386–389
Das Organische in Hegels Denken (Studie zur Naturphilosophie um 1800), Olaf Briedbach, 1985, in Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 38 (2) pp. 160–163
Presentations
"Knowledge and Value: The 'Digression' in Plato's Theaetetus" delivered at the Philosophy Department Evening Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin, November 2010.
"How Robust is Kant's Realism?" delivered at the 11th International Kant Congress, Pisa, Italy, May 2010.
"Does Kant's epistemology have room for essential features of the empirical world?" delivered at the Plato Center Postdoctoral Workshop, Trinity College, December 2009.
"The Consolations of Kant's Philosophy" delivered at the Philosophy Department Evening Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin, December 2009.
"Three Rival Interpretations of Kant's Second Analogy of Experience" delivered at the Philosophy Department Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin, November 2006.
"Empirical concepts and the principle of causality" delivered at a course on Meaning and Natural Kinds organized by Timothy Williamson and David Charles, Inter–University Centre, Dubrovnik, September 1986.
Professional Memberships
Member of Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (BDÜ)
Professional member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association (MITIA)
Languages
German (native), English (near native), French (reading knowledge), Latin, Greek