1. Andreas Dorschel was born on 1962 and is a German philosopher.
18 Facts About Andreas Dorschel
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Andreas Dorschel was born in 1962 in Wiesbaden, West Germany.
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Andreas Dorschel is a cousin of the modernist visual artist Gesine Probst-Bosch.
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From 1983 on, Dorschel studied philosophy, musicology and linguistics at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Vienna.
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Andreas Dorschel has taught at universities in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the UK.
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Andreas Dorschel was visiting professor at Emory University and at Stanford University.
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Between 2008 and 2017, Andreas Dorschel was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund ; from 2012 to 2017 he joined the Review Panel of the HERA Joint Research Programme of the European Science Foundation.
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In 2019, Andreas Dorschel was elected member of the Academia Europaea.
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Andreas Dorschel's work has been influenced by philosophers Denis Diderot, Arthur Schopenhauer and R G Collingwood.
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In Die idealistische Kritik des Willens [German Idealism's Critique of the Will] Andreas Dorschel defends an understanding of freedom as choice against Kant's and Hegel's ethical animadversions.
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Predictions, Andreas Dorschel argues, need a basis that is not affected by their being made.
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Andreas Dorschel "observed that 'the concepts of the useful and [of] purpose have been replaced in the philosophy of design by that of function'", Ute Poerschke states in a dense summary of the monograph.
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Andreas Dorschel criticized that function has a diffuse meaning, under which one could understand both purpose and technology and concluded that because of this diffuse meaning it is advisable to consider 'not function, as modern functionalism did, but rather purpose and technology as the basic concepts of a theory of design'.
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New ideas are invented in response to difficulties, obstacles or perplexities; from the latter, Andreas Dorschel suggests, historians can make sense of the former.
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Andreas Dorschel considers the subversive potential of ideas not to be peripheral; rather, he grants it centre stage in his account.
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Yet tragicomic situations, Andreas Dorschel suggests, offer the surprising experience that those opposed qualities actually invigorate each other.
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Andreas Dorschel has taken a critical stance towards a blinkered academicism in philosophy.
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Andreas Dorschel considers the narrowing-down of philosophical writing to articles and monographs a drain especially on epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.