- E-mailFranz.Knappik@uib.no
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I have research interests both in the history of philosophy and in contemporary philosophy.
My historical research focuses on Classical German Philosophy. I have published on topics that include Kant’s moral psychology; Hegel’s metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, political philosophy, and his views on race and colonialism; and Fichte’s epistemology.
My systematic interests are in the philosophy of mind (including self-knowledge, phenomenology of action, cognitive phenomenology, and pathologies of self-awareness), in social philosophy (e.g. social functions, racism, post-truth), and in decolonial approaches.
At the Department of Philosophy, I coordinate the research group "Philosophy of mind", as well as the "Critical Theories Colloquium" in the research group Culture, society and politics.
Together with Daniel James (Düsseldorf/Berlin), I organize the workshop series "Hegel (anti)kolonial"(hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com).
"Hegel, den besværlige filosofen", interview in Klassekampen, 5.3.22
"Eine Last der Vernunft", with Daniel James, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 6.10.21
statements (with Daniel James) in "Rassismus und Kolonialismus in der Diskussion", Information Philosophie 4(2021), 24-43
Das Untote in Hegel: Warum wir über seinen Rassismus reden müssen, with Daniel James, praefaktisch 27.5.21; reply by Folko Zander; our replies, part 1; part 2.
Work in progress
Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy (Special Issue of "Hegel Bulletin", edited with Daniel James, in preparation)
Hegel and Colonialism (with Daniel James), short monograph in the series Cambridge Elements (Cambridge University Press, in preparation)
The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Structure, Mechanisms, and Functions. (Special Issue of "Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences", edited with Nivedita Gangopadhyay, in press)
Recent journal articles
"Accounting for Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder in Terms of Type-Specific Properties of Mental States", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (forthcoming)
"Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel’s Racism: The Teleology of the ‘Concept’ and the Taxonomy of Races", with Daniel James (forthcoming, Hegel Bulletin)
"'Å virkelig unnslippe Hegel': Tanker om Hegels rasisme og Fanons antirasisme" ("'To really escape Hegel': Thoughts on Hegel's racism and Fanon's anti-racism"), Agora, 2022
"Confusions about 'inner' and 'outer' voices: Conceptual problems in the assessment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations" (with Josef Bless and Frank Larøi), Review of Philosophy and Psychology, online first, 2021
"Gêneros objetivos e teleologia em Hegel: da natureza à sociedade" (Hegel on Objective Kinds and Teleology: From Nature to Society"", Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos, 16(27), 2019, 1-40
"An Erring Conscience is an Absurdity: The Later Kant on Certainty, Moral Judgment and the Infallibility of Conscience" (with Erasmus Mayr), Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101:1 (2019), 92-134
"What is wrong with blind necessity? Schelling's critique of Spinoza's necessitarianism in the Freedom Essay", Journal of the History of Philosophy 57:1 (2019), 129-157
"Kant, Schopenhauer und Fichte über unser Wissen von unseren körperlichen Handlungen" ("Kant, Schopenhauer and Fichte on our knowledge of our bodily actions"), in: Fichte-Studien 45 (2018)
"Hegel and arguments for natural kind essentialism", Hegel Bulletin, first view, 2018
"Bayes and the first person. Inner speech, consciousness of thoughts and probabilistic inference", Synthese, online first, 2017, 1-28
"And yet he is a monist. Comments on James Kreines, 'Reason in the world'", Hegel Bulletin, online first, 2016, 1-17
"Hegel's essentialism. Natural kinds and the metaphysics of explanation in Hegel's theory of 'the Concept'", European Journal of Philosophy 24 (2016), 760-787
"Hegel on consciousness, self-consciousness and idealism", International Yearbook of German Idealism 11 (2013) (appeared in 2016)
"Self-knowledge about attitudes: rationalism meets interpretation", Philosophical Explorations 18/2 (2015), 183-198
"Hegel's modal argument against Spinozism. An interpretation of the chapter 'Actuality' in Hegel's Science of Logic", Hegel Bulletin 36/1 (2015), 53-79
Book
Im Reich der Freiheit. Hegels Theorie autonomer Vernunft (In the realm of freedom. Hegel's theory of autonomous reason), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013
Other publications (selection)
"Hegel and the Metaphysics of Social Kinds", with Daniel James, in: Jonas Held/James Conant, eds. The Palgrave Handbook on German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming
"Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems", in Gilles Bouche, ed. Reading Brandom: On a Spirit of Trust, London: Routledge, 2020
"Sellars on Self-Knowledge", in Anke Breunig & Stefan Brandt (eds.), Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy, London: Routledge, 2019, 221-239
"'Gegenwärtige prosaische Zustände': Hegels melancholische Ästhetik und Schillers politische Eschatologie", in Thomas Oehl & Artur Kok (eds.), Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel. Kunst, Religion und Philosophie innerhalb und außerhalb von Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Leiden: Brill, 2018, 504-526
Review of Jörg Noller, Die Bestimmung des Willens, forthcoming in Hegel-Studien
Review of Vincent Descombes, Puzzling Identities, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2016.06.22
Review of Christopher Yeomans, The Expansion of Autonomy. Hegel's Pluralistic Philosophy of Action, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.08.36
Articles "Geist"; "Gemüt", in: Georg Mohr / Jürgen Stolzenberg / Marcus Willaschek (eds.), Kant-Lexikon, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015
Review of Ariberto Acerbi, Il sistema di Fichte, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122 (2015), 537-539
"Hegel über Vorstellung und repräsentationalen Gehalt" ("Hegel on representation and representational content"), in: Kazimir Drilo / Axel Hutter (eds.), Spekulation und Vorstellung in Hegels enzyklopädischem System, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015, 85-118
"Normativität, Autonomie und das Wissen des Akteurs von seinen Handlungen in Hegels Kritik des Gewissens" ("Normativity, autonomy and the agent's knowledge of his actions in Hegel's critique of conscience"), in: Simon Bunke/Katerina Mihaylova/Antonio Roselli (eds.), Gewissen zwischen Gefühl und Vernunft. Neue Perspektiven auf das 18. Jahrhundert, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015
"Metaphysik der Kontingenz. Kierkegaards anti-nezessitarische und anti-hegelianische Modaltheorie im 'Zwischenspiel' der Philosophischen Brocken" ("Metaphysics of contingency. Kierkegaard's anti-necessitarian and anti-Hegelian theory of modality in the 'Interlude' of Philosophical Fragments"), in: Axel Hutter / Anders Moe Rasmussen (eds.), Kierkegaard im Kontext des Deutschen Idealismus, Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2014, 151-202
Review of Sally Sedgwick, Hegel's Critique of Kant. From Dichotomy to Identity, European Journal of Philosophy 21 (2013), e4-e9
"Gewissen und Gewissenhaftigkeit beim späten Kant" ("Conscience and conscientiousness in the late Kant") (with Erasmus Mayr), in: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 2010, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2013, 329-342
"Scruton and Wittgenstein on expression in music", in: Nick Zangwill / Andy Hamilton (eds.), Scruton's Aesthetics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012, 62-83
- (2022). «Å virkelig unnslippe Hegel» Tanker om Hegels rasisme og Fanons antirasisme. Agora. 158-177.
- (2022). No need for mineness: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and mental state types. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
- (2022). Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel's Racism: The Teleology of the ‘Concept’ and the Taxonomy of Races. Hegel Bulletin.
- (2021). Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
- (2019). What is Wrong with Blind Necessity? Schelling’s Critique of Spinoza’s Necessitarianism in the Freedom Essay. Journal of the history of philosophy. 129-157.
- (2019). Gêneros objetivos e teleologia em Hegel: da natureza à sociedade. Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos. 1-40.
- (2019). "An erring conscience is an absurdity": The later kant on certainty, moral judgment and the infallibility of conscience. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 92-134.
- (2018). Hegel and Arguments for Natural Kind Essentialism. Hegel Bulletin. 27 pages.
- (2017). Bayes and the first person: consciousness of thoughts, inner speech and probabilistic inference. Synthese. 1-28.
- (2016). Hegel's essentialism. Natural kinds and the metaphysics of explanation in Hegel's theory of 'the Concept'. European Journal of Philosophy. 28 pages.
- (2016). And yet he is a monist. Comments on James Kreines, 'Reason in the world'. Hegel Bulletin. 17 pages.
- (2020). [Review of:] Robert B. Pippin, Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic. . SGIR Review. 144-149.
- (2017). [Anmeldelse av:] Jörg Noller: Die Bestimmung des Willens. Hegel-Studien. 198-201.
- (2020). Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems. 14 pages.
- (2019). Sellars on Self-Knowledge. 19 pages.
- (2018). „Gegenwärtige prosaische Zustände“. Hegels melancholische Ästhetik und Schillers politische Eschatologie. 23 pages.
- (2018). Kant, Schopenhauer und Fichte über unser Wissen von unseren körperlichen Handlungen. 21 pages.
- (2021). Correction to: Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (Review of Philosophy and Psychology, (2021), 10.1007/s13164-021-00532-x). Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
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since 2017: Professor, University of Bergen
2016-2017: Associate Professor, University of Bergen
2015-2016: Postdoc, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (host: Elisabeth Pacherie, funded by DAAD)
2011-2015: Fixed-term lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Humboldt University, Berlin (Chair for Classical German Philosophy, Tobias Rosefeldt)
2009-2011: Fixed-term lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (Chair for Philosophy II, Axel Hutter)
2009: research stay, University of Pittsburgh (host: Robert Brandom)
2006-2011: PhD, Ludwig Maximilians University (supervisor: Axel Hutter); major: philosophy, minor: Italian philology
2004: visiting student, University of Pavia
2003-2004: visiting student, Oxford University
2000-2006: M.A., Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich; major: philosophy, minors: musicology, Greek philology
Languages: native: German; fluent: English, Italian, Norwegian; reading: French, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek.
Services to the profession:
Referee for Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Hegel Bulletin, Idealistic Studies, Frontiers in Psychology, European Journal of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge and others.
Associate editor, Philosophical Explorations.