FACULTY - IN RESIDENCE

   Josef Seifert
 
Full Professor of Philosophy / Rector
Chair for Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophical Anthropology

Office Mailing:
Internationale Akademie für Philosophie
Im Schwibboga 7 b-c
9487 Bendern
Liechtenstein (Via Switzerland)

Phone: +423 265 43 03
E-mail: jseifert@iap.li

   Education History  
 
   
1963-64 Study of Philosophy, (old) University of Salzburg (Pontifical Institute of Philosophy)
   
1964-69 Studies in Philosophy (Double Major) Psychology and History of Art (Minors) (New) University of Salzburg
   
1969 Ph. D. (Promotion), mit Auszeichnung, University of Salzburg
   
1975 Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.), University of Munich, Germany


Curriculum Vitael at full length (PDF)
 
     
   Areas of Interest  
 
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophical Anthropology, Phenomenology, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine;
 
     
   Selected Bibliography  
 
Recent Books:
  • Überwindung des Skandals der reinen Vernunft. Die Widerspruchsfreiheit der Wirklichkeit – trotz Kant, (Freiburg/München: Karl Alber, 2001)
  • Gott als Gottesbeweis. Eine phänomenologische Neubegründung des ontologischen Arguments/ God as Proof of His Own Existence. A New Phenomenological Foundation of the Ontological Argument, 2nd edition. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000)
  • Back to Things in Themselves, 2nd (electronic) edition 1997
Recent Articles:
  • "What Is Human Health? Towards Understanding Its Personalist Dimensions,” in: Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, and Patricia Donohue-White (Ed.): Person, Society and Value. Towards a Personalist Concept of Health (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), pp. 109-143.
  • “Philosophy and Science in the Context of Contemporary Culture,” in: The Human Search for Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology. The Outlook for the Third Millennium. International Conference on Science and Faith. The Vatican 23-25 May 2000, (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, pp. 23-71).
  • Moral Goodness alone is ‘Good without qualifications
 
     
   Recent Courses  
 

  • Liebe, Krieg und Frieden. Philosophische Anthropologie und Hass
  • Being and Person
  • Was ist Phänomenologie?
  • Philosophy of History. An attempt to systematically develop a personalist philosophy of history in dialog with Augustine, Hegel and Kierkegaard
 
     

 



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