about me...
"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth."
"No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly
F. M. Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
I moved to Munich in 2002 and started to study philosophy one year later. During the first years of my studies I was interested in the problem of theodicy: On the one hand let's assume there is an absolute being which is good and has all the power in the world. On the other hand we know that there is evil in the world. Both statements can not be true at the same time. Analyzing the works of F. M. Dostoevsky and the Russian philosopher S. L. Frank, I earned deep insights about that problem. Both stress that only the assumption of human free will in a libertarian sense can get you out of that dilemma. So I started to examine the possibility of free will in a world that seems to be completely determined by physical laws. Panpsychistic ontology seems to open up a leeway for free will. At the moment I am working on a panpsychistic model of free choice.
- Systematic focus:
Metaphysics of Free Will, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Religion.
- Historical focus:
Whitehead, Russian Neoplatonism
Scientific Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Oktober 2005 - Septermber 2007
Munich School of Philosophy (Stefan Bauberger)
Scientific Assistant
EDUCATION
- since August 2008
Munich School of Philosophy (Metaphysics of Free Will, Philosophy of Mind)
pursued degree: Dr. phil. in Philosophy
Working-title of the thesis: "Freedom and Consciousness. An Panexperiential Account to the Problem of Free Will"
- October 2009
Fernuniversität Hagen (Department of Economics)
pursued degree: Bachelor of Science in Economics
- October 2005 - January 2007
Munich School of Philosophy (Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion)
Magister Artium in Philosopy
Title of the thesis: "Die Freiheit und das Böse. Dostojewskis Gestalten aus der Sich von S. L. Frank.; [Freedom and Evil. Dostojewski's characters and the philosophy of S. L. Frank.]
- October 2002 - March 2004
Munich School of Philosophy
Bakkalaureus Philosophiae (Bachelor in Philosophy)