Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter
- Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
- Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
- 2001
PhD in Philosophy
University of Münster
Thesis Title: Die Seele und ihre Vermögen: Kants Metaphysik des Mentalen in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft - 1996
MA in Philosophy
University of Münster, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster
Courses (2020/2021)
- Evolution of the Humanities (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Philosophical Anthropology"- 2 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2019/2020)
- Evolution of the Humanities (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Reseach Seminar "History of Philosophy: Texts and Interpretations" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Philosophical Anthropology"- 2 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Graduate School of Business; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Reseach Seminar "History of Philosophy: Texts and Interpretations" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2015/2016)
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE); 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)
- Research Seminar "Philosophical Anthropology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Publications33
- Chapter Heßbrüggen-Walter Stefan. Institutioni Scholasticae Minime Accommodata: De Neufville and Clauberg on not Teaching Bacon, in: History of Universities Issue XXXIII/2. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. doi Ch. 2. P. 36-56. doi
- Chapter Heßbrüggen-Walter, Stefan. The Metaphysician Who Didn’t Know That He Was Dreaming: Kant and the Spirit-Seers, in: Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. doi P. 867-874. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. How and Why Philosophy Was First Called a System: Casmann against Hoffmann on Christian Wisdom and Double Truth // Acta Comeniana. 2018. Vol. 32. P. 29-40.
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Philosophie als digitale Geisteswissenschaft // Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. 2018. Vol. 3. P. 1-8. doi
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Testing for Demonic Possession: Scribonius, Goclenius, and the Lemgo Witchcraft Trial of 1583, in: Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. doi Ch. 5. P. 105-122. doi
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. The Science of the Physically Possible? Wolff's Definition of Philosophy in the German Logic and the Impossibiliy of Christian Physics, in: Christian Wolff's German Logic: Sources, Significance and Reception. NY, Zürich, Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2017. P. 19-28.
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. The Young and Clueless? Wheare, Vossius, and Keckermann on the Study of History // Journal of Early Modern Studies. 2017. Vol. 6. No. 2. P. 26-44. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Thinking about Persons: Loci Personarum in Humanist Dialectic Between Agricola and Keckermann // History and Philosophy of Logic. 2017. Vol. 38. No. 1. P. 1-23. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. review of: Helmut Holzhey / Vilem Mudroch (eds.), Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts. 5,2: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation, Schweiz, Nord- und Osteuropa, Basel: Schwabe, 2014 // Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas. 2017. No. 3. P. 14-16.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. "Assoziation", 171-173; "Begehrungsvermögen", 235-236; "Bezeichnungsvermögen", 295; "Commercium", 338-340; "Dichtungsvermögen", 419; "Empfindelei", 503-504; "Empfindsamkeit", 504; "Erinnerungvermögen", 551; "Erkenntniskraft", 564; "Fertigkeit", 617; "Gelegenheitsursache", 749-750; "Okkasionalismus", 1730; "Seele", 2080-2084; "Seele (Interaktion mit dem Körper)", 2084-2085; "Seelenstärke", 2085; "Verabscheuung", 2501 "Verknüpfung", 2517-2518 "Vermögen", 2521-2524 "Vernunfthandlung", 2553 "Verstandeshandlung", 2570-2571 "Vorstellungskraft", 2615-2616 "Weltgeist", 2665-2666 "Weltseele", 2668-2669, in: Kant-Lexikon. Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter, 2015. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Dyck, Corey, Kant and Rational Psychology (review) // Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. 2015. Vol. 97. No. 4. P. 513-519. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Early Modern Subjects and the Self-Conception of Philosophy in Germany 1556-1599 // Society and Politics. 2015. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 10-24.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Puzzle, Polemic and Simplification: Uses of Citation in a 17th Century Dissertation on Nothing in the Philosophical Disciplines, in: Онтология негативности / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Драгалина-Черная. М. : Канон+, 2015.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Thinking about Action: Keckermann on the Description and Interpretation of Agency, in: Rationality in Action: Intentions, Interpretations and Interactions / Отв. ред.: E. Dragalina-Chernaya. St. Petersburg : Aletheya, 2015. P. 78-88.
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. What People Said: The Theoretical Foundations of a Minimal Doxographical Ontology and Its Use in the History of Philosophy // Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Digital Humanities. 2015. Vol. 1 doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Mogens Lærke, Justin E. H. Smith, Eric Schliesser (eds.), Philosophy and its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 384 pp. (review) // Journal of Early Modern Studies. 2014. Vol. 3. No. 1. P. 145-149. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Problems with Rhubarb: Accommodating Experience in Aristotelian Theories of Science // Early Science and Medicine. 2014. Vol. 19. No. 4. P. 317-340. doi
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Putting Our Soul in Place // Kant Yearbook. 2014. Vol. 6. No. 1. P. 23-42. doi
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Creatio ex nihilo und creatio nihili: Etwas und Nichts im Schöpfungsdenken der frühen Neuzeit, in: Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht nichts? – Wandel und Variationen einer Frage. Hamburg : Felix Meiner Verlag, 2013.
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Die Begriffsbestimmung der Philosophie im spanischen Aristotelismus der frühen Neuzeit // Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte. 2013. Vol. 54
- Article Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Scientific Knowledge and the Metaphysics of Experience The Debate in Early Modern Aristotelianism // Studia Neoaristotelica. 2013. Vol. 2. No. 19. P. 134-156. doi
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Tatsachen im semantischen Web: Nanopublikationen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften?, in: Historyblogosphere: Bloggen in den Geschichtswissenschaften. Muenchen : Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. ‘Wir-Gefühl’ oder ‘Wir-Absicht’? Zur Begründung einer Moral der Solidarität, in: Solidarität: ein Prinzip des Rechts und der Ethik. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2013.
- Book Departure for Modern Europe: a Handbook of Early Modern Philosophy / Ed. by S. Hessbrüggen-Walter, B. Hubertus. Hamburg : Meiner Verlag, 2011.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Vermögen, in: Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe. Freiburg : Verlag Karl Alber, 2011.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Zwischen Patriarchalismus und Liberalismus – Ökonomie und Politik bei Bodin, Hobbes, Locke, Steuart und Smith, in: Philosophische Aspekte der Ökonomie. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2010.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Keines Menschen Land? Das Rechtsprinzip der terra nullius und das historische Unrecht friedlicher Kolonialisierung, in: Philosophische Aspekte der Globalisierung. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2009.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S., Ansgar L. Maschinen der Kunst, Maschinen der Natur, in: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monadologie (Klassiker Auslegen, vol. 34). Berlin : Akademie Verlag, 2008.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Das Ganze im Blick: Sellars über die Aufgabe der Philosophie, in: Studia philosophica Т. 66: Was ist Philosophie? / Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?. Базель : Schwabe Verlag, 2007.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Das Kulturschöne: Eine Skizze zu nachromantischer Musik und ihrer Ästhetik, in: Musikphilosophie. Muenchen : Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2007.
- Chapter Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Between Ambrose and the Arians: Augustine and his Critique of Dialectic, in: Augustine and the Disciplines: Cassiciacum to “Confessions”. , 2005.
- Book Hessbrüggen-Walter S. Die Seele und ihre Vermögen: Kants Metaphysik des Mentalen in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Paderborn : Mentis, 2004.
Associate Editor "Palgrave Communications" since 2015
Degrees
M. A.: 1996, Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster
Ph. D.: 2001, Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster
Courses taught
Research seminar 'Philosophical Anthropology' (Master's programme at the Faculty of Philosophy ; 2nd year, modules 2-4)
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Science and Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
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Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter presented a talk "Accommodating Angels"
Assistant Professor Stefan Hessbrüggen-Walter gave a talk at the seminar "Contemporary metaphysics". He discussed some of the difficulties faced by Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz when trying to accomodate the spatial presence of angels in their theories, and argued that none of these attempts was ultimately successful.