Eva Schmidt

Nachdem ihr Versuch, Schauspielerin zu werden, gescheitert ist, kehrt Maren zurück an den Ort ihrer Kindheit. Mit ihrer bevormundenden Mutter, einer so egozentrischen wie erfolglosen Künstlerin, und ihrem Stiefvater Robert, einem reichen Unternehmer, der für alle und alles aufkommt, lebt sie in dem luxuriösen Haus am See. Als die Spannungen zwischen Maren und ihrer Mutter zunehmen, bietet ihr Robert die Firmenwohnung an. Dort findet sie bald heraus, dass er offenbar ein Doppelleben führt, dass er ihre Mutter nie geliebt hat, dass so vieles anders sein könnte in ihrer kleinen Welt, als es schien. Und dass der Zwang zu lügen stärker wird, je mehr sie weiß. So wie es hinter der stillen Oberfläche ihrer Sätze rumort, so monströs sind die scheinbar alltäglichen Verhältnisse, von denen Eva Schmidt hier erzählt, so berührend wirkt der kühle Ton, den sie anschlägt: ein Psychogramm ohne Psychologie, ein gleichermaßen feinsinniger wie aufregender Roman über den Wunsch nach Nähe und die Sehnsucht nach Grenzüberschreitung.

Roman

Die untalentierte Lügnerin

Christoph C. Pfisterer

Nicole Rathgeb

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy. It brings together 16 new essays by up-and-coming and distinguished philosophers engaging with Glock’s work, and it concludes with a "Reflections and Replies" chapter in which Glock responds to his interlocutors. Glock’s distinctive philosophical voice features a rare combination of a Wittgenstein-inspired approach with a willingness to break away from Wittgenstein to tackle problems in an open-minded way. The broad selection of essays included in this volume reflects Glock’s wide-ranging philosophical interests and demonstrates the potential of applying Wittgensteinian insights to advance current systematic debates in philosophy. The chapters discuss Wittgenstein’s philosophy, metaphilosophy, truth and language, animal minds and agency, and reasons and normativity. Wittgenstein and Beyond will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, metaphilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock

Wittgenstein and Beyond

Dieter Roelstraete

Jennifer Cierlitza

Window Shopping

eine Biographie

Julie von Bechtolsheim, Wielands "Psyche"

The author defends nonconceptualism, the claim that perceptual experience is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content. Continuing the heated and complex debate surrounding this topic over the past two decades, she offers a sustained defense of a novel version of the view, Modest Nonconceptualism, and provides a systematic overview of some of the central controversies in the debate. An explication of the notion of nonconceptual content and a distinction between nonconceptualist views of different strengths starts off the volume, then the author goes on to defend participants in the debate over nonconceptual content against the allegation that their failure to distinguish between a state view and a content view of (non)conceptualism leads to fatal problems for their views. Next, she makes a case for nonconceptualism by refining some of the central arguments for the view, such as the arguments from fineness of grain, from contradictory contents, from animal and infant perception, and from concept acquisition. Then, two central objections against nonconceptualism are rebutted in a novel way: the epistemological objection and the objection from objectivity. Modest Nonconceptualism allows for perceptual experiences to involve some conceptual elements. It emphasizes the relevance of concept employment for an understanding of conceptual and nonconceptual mental states and identifies the nonconceptual content of experience with scenario content. It insists on the possibility of genuine content-bearing perceptual experience without concept possession and is thus in line with the Autonomy Thesis. Finally, it includes an account of perceptual justification that relies on the external contents of experience and belief, yet is compatible with epistemological internalism.

Epistemology, Phenomenology, and Content

Modest Nonconceptualism

Eva Schmidt

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