Markus Gabriel | |
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Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Speculative realism Relationalism Syntheism |
Markus Gabriel (born April 6, 1980) is a German philosopher and author at the University of Bonn. In addition to his more specialized work, he has also written popular books about philosophical issues.
Gabriel was educated in philosophy and Ancient Greek in Germany. After completing his studies, he held a faculty position at New School for Social Research. He then came to the University of Bonn, where he holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and is Director of the International Centre for Philosophy.[1] Gabriel has also been a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley.[2]
In 2013, Gabriel wrote Transcendental Ontology: Essays in German Idealism. In the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Sebastian Gardner wrote that the work is "Gabriel's most comprehensive presentation to date, in English, of his reading of German Idealism"[3] and notes that "due to its compression of a wealth of ideas into such a short space, the book demands quite a lot from its readers."[3]
In an interview, Gabriel complained that "most contemporary metaphysicians are [sloppy] when it comes to characterizing their subject matter," using words like "the world" and "reality" "often...interchangeably and without further clarifications. In my view, those totality of words do not refer to anything which is capable of having the property of existence."[4] He goes on to explain:
A romanian philosopher called Gabriel Vacariu accused him 2013 in a paper of plagirism.[6] The accusations however where refuted by Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg (University Bonn).[7] Gabriel Vacariu still holds the view that he consciously copied his work and renamed his "EDWs" (epistemologically different worlds) into "Sinnfelder" (Fields of senses).[8]