Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl

Institutional Affiliation:

Department of Philosophy & Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science of Research, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Mozartgasse 14, A-8010 Graz.
Tel.: +43 316/380-2315, 2316; Fax: +43 316/380-9706; email: johann.goetschl@kfunigraz.ac.at

Biographical Data:

Born in 1939; studies of Philosophy and Physics at Graz; Ph.D. 1971; since 1971 lecturer in philosophy of science, especially of physics, University of Graz; since 1972 lecturer in philosophy and methodology of natural sciences, Technical University of Graz; since 1995 lecturer in philosophy and methodology of economy, Technical University of Vienna.

Areas of Research:

Philosophy and methodology of the natural sciences, especially physics; structure and dynamics of theories; philosophy and methodology of theories of evolution and self-organization; interdisciplinary approaches to communication between the natural and the social sciences.

Philosophical Orientation:

Committed to a "hypercritical realism" and works at the construction of "general theory of reality".

Selected Publications:

• Götschl, J. (ed.): Evolution and Progress in Democracies. New Foundations of a Knowledge Society Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 2001;
• "On Evolutive Dynamics of Knowledge Production. Some Implications for Democracy", in: Götschl, J. (ed.): Evolution and Progress in Democracies. New Foundations of a Knowledge Society Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 2001, 89-115;
• "Transdisciplinarity: Dynamic interrelations between disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity", in: E. Mariani (ed.): Unity of Knowing and Doing: A Transdisciplinary Solution, Napoli 2001 (in appearance);
• "Knowledge Production. New Presupposition", in: A. Carsetti (ed.): Language and Cognition. An Interdisciplinary Approach, La Nuova Critica, 2001;
• "Charakteristika eines evolutiven dynamischen Wissenschaftsbegriffs: Alexander von Humboldt als Vorläufer einer evolutiven Modellierung der Wissenschaftsentwicklung", in: Aufbruch in die Moderne, Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 2001;
• "Self-Organization: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of the Unity of Reality", in: A. Carsetti (ed.): Functional Models of Cognition. Self-Organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Cognitive System. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 2000, 143-166;
• "World View: On the Role of Physics in Erwin Schrödinger's Philosophical System", in: E. Mariani (ed.): Visione del mondo nella storia della scienza. I Quaderni Dell'I.P.E., n.10, Neaples 1999, 167-206;
• "Self-Organization: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of the Unity of Reality," in: E. Mariani (ed.),Scienza e Realtà. I Quaderni Dell'I.P.E., n.8, Neaples 1997, 57-93;
• "The Study of Nature and the Emergence of World View. Philosophical Reflections on E. Schrödinger's Approach," in: J. Götschl (ed.): Erwin Schödinger's World View. The Dynamics of Knowledge and Reality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1992, 173-181;
• "Self-Organization: New foundations towards a 'General Theory of Reality'", in: J. Götschl (ed.): Revolutionary Changes in Unterstanding Man and Society. Scopes and Limits, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1995, 109-128;
• "Physics in Erwin Schrödinger's Philosophical System", in: M. Bitbol/O. Darrigol (eds.): Philosophy and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics, Paris: Editions Frontières, 1993, 121-142;
• "Hypercritical Physical Realism and the Categorial Changes in the Subject-Object-Relations", in: La Nuova Critica, Nuova Serie 17-18, Rom 1991, 5-9;
• "Zum Subjekt-Objekt-Problem von transzendentaler und evolutionärer Erkenntnistheorie," in: W. Lütterfelds (ed.): Transzendentale oder evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1987, 285-306.

Current research projects:

• Science - Welfare and Poverty (The multidimensional functions of modern sciences)
  
• Interdisziplinäre Erforschung der Wissenschaften
  
• Language and Cognition
  
• Unity of Knowing and Doing: A Transdisciplinary Solution
  
• Aufbruch in die Moderne
  
• Evolution and Progress in Democracies. Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society
  
• Theory of Self-Organization and Brain Research
  
• Science Policy and Philosophy of Science
  
• Common Sense in Philosophy of Science

Further Characteristics and Distinctions:

Numerous visiting professorships: Boulder Co., Braunschweig, Düsseldorf, Minneapolis Minn., New York (New School University), University of Arkansas at Little Rock.