CHRISTIAN GEORG MARTIN Curriculum Vitae (September 2020)
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CHRISTIAN GEORG MARTIN Curriculum Vitae (September 2020) Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany Email: [email protected] PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth: 11 March 1980 Nationality: German ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT As of June 2019 Untenured Associate Professor (Akademischer Oberrat a. Z.), LMU Munich December 2009 - September 2018 Untenured Assistant Professor (Wissenschaft- licher Mitarbeiter), LMU Munich VISITING APPOINTMENTS Visiting Associate Professor, The University of January 2020 - March 2020 Chicago, The Committee on Social Thought August 2019 - January 2020 Visiting Professor (professeur invité), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne October 2018 - July 2019 Senior Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, Leipzig University, Research Center for Analytic German Idealism Post-Doctoral Researcher, The University of September 2014 - August 2016 Chicago ACADEMIC EDUCATION February 2019 Habilitation, LMU Munich July 2010 Dr. phil., LMU Munich July 2006 M. A. (Philosophy, Germanic Studies, Slavic Studies), LMU Munich July 2003 B. A. (Philosophy, Germanic Studies, Slavic Studies), Freiburg University AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Systematic: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Nature Historical: Classical German Philosophy (Kant, Hegel), Early Analytic Philosophy (Frege, Wittgenstein) AREAS OF COMPETENCE Systematic: Ontology, Aesthetics Historical: 20th Century Continental Philosophy 1 FELLOWSHIPS, LECTURESHIPS, AND AWARDS Kohut Visiting Professor, The University of Chicago, Winter Quarter 2020 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, August 2019- January 2020 (jointly sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service and the University Paris 1) Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Leipzig University, April-July 2019 (Humboldt Project) Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Leipzig University, October 2018-March 2019 (Humboldt Project) Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Humboldt Foundation), The University of Chicago, September 2015-September 2016 Postdoctoral Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service), The University of Chicago, September 2014-August 2015 Travel- and Research Fellowship (LMU-UC Berkeley Research in the Humanities), UC Berkeley, April 2014 Travel- and Research Fellowship (LMU-UC Berkeley Research in the Humanities), UC Berkeley, September-October 2013 Akademiepreis 2011, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (awarded for the PhD dissertation) Doctoral fellowship, German National Academic Foundation, 2007-2009 Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation, 2001-2006 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING Organizer of the Conference “Anschauung und Begriff in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie”, LMU Munich, March 2020 (postponed to 2021) Co-organizer (with David Zapero) of the Workshop “Wittgenstein et l’imagination”, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, November 2019 Organizer of the Conference “The Form of Our Life With Language,” LMU Munich, May 2016 Co-organizer (with Axel Hutter) of the Conference “Bedeutungsskepsis und absoluter Geist,” LMU Munich, July 2015 Co-organizer (with Marcela García) of the Conference “Notwendigkeit, Kontingenz, Vernunft. Variation im Umkreis Schellings,” Munich, July 2015 Co-organizer (with Hans Sluga) of the Workshop “Coping with Unsurveyability. Wittgensteinian Perspectives,” UC Berkeley, April 2014 Co-organizer (with Marcela García) of the Workshop: Ontology in German Idealism, LMU Munich, July 2013 Co-organizer (as a member of the Society “Conceptions of Reason. Justification and Critique”) of the Conference “Aspects of Reason. Justification and Critique,” LMU 2 Munich, CAS, June 2011 OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-organizer (with Marcela García) of a Screening and Discussion Series “Film and Philosophy”, LMU Munich, 2009-2011 TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (in English) Graduate Seminar: Conceptions of Nature in German Idealism, winter quarter 2020 TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE (in French) Graduate Seminar (master 2): Wittgenstein, co-taught with Sandra Laugier, 1st semester 2019-20 Upper-level Undergraduate (licence 3): Perception and Imagination, 1st semester 2019-20 TEACHING AT LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY (in German) Graduate Seminar (Intensivseminar): From Logic via Nature towards Language, summer 2019 TEACHING AT LMU MUNICH (in German) GRADUATE SEMINARS AND LECTURE COURSES (Vorlesungen) Nature and Culture, summer 2020 Conceptions of Nature in German Idealism (Kant, Hegel), summer 2019 What is a Judgement? (Kant, Hegel, Frege), summer 2018 Enlightenment and the Public Sphere, winter 2017-18 The Concept of Number (Kant, Frege, Dedekind, Wittgenstein), winter 2017-18 Aesthetic Form (Kant, Schiller, Hegel), winter 2016-17 Aspect Perception, summer 2014 Analytic Kantianism (Kant, Sellars, McDowell), summer 2013 Meaning and Subjectivity (Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein), co-taught with Christopher Erhard, winter 2011-12 Walter Benjamin on Language and History, co-taught with Axel Hutter, summer 2011 What is Life? (Aristoteles, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Heidegger, Jonas and Thompson), co-taught with Marcela García, winter semester 2010-11 GRADUATE WORKSHOP MA- and PhD-Colloquium in Theoretical Philosophy, summer 2018 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Aesthetic Experience, summer 2020 3 BA-Colloquium in Theoretical Philosophy, summer 2014 Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations”, winter 2013-14 Hegel‘s “Logic of Judgment”, summer 2013 Frege and Wittgenstein on Sense and Nonsense, winter 2012-13 Kant‘s “Critique of Practical Reason”, winter semester 2012-13 Self-Consciousness (Fichte, Hegel, Anscombe, Nozick, Brandom), summer semester 2012 Wittgenstein and Kripke on Rules, summer semester 2012 The Problem of Universals, winter semester 2011-12 Theories of Meaning (Grice, Quine, Davidson, Sellars, Brandom), summer 2011 Aristotle’s “De Anima”, winter 2010-11 Kant’s “Prolegomena”, summer 2010 Introduction to Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy, summer 2010 Anton Koch‘s “Wahrheit, Zeit und Freiheit”, winter 2008-9 Self-Consciousness (Fichte, Hegel, Castañeda), winter 2007-8 Hegel‘s Encyclopedia Logic, summer 2007 Hegel‘s Philosophy of Spirit, winter 2006-7 GRADUATE ADVISING Dissertation Advisor (LMU Munich): Konstanty Kuzma, A Critique of McDowell’s Minimal Empiricism from the Vantage Point of Kant and Hegel (funded by the German National Academic Foundation) Dissertation Committee Member (The University of Chicago) Shana Crandell, Action and the Unity of Reason, PhD Dissertation Mathis Koschel, The Finitude of Human Cognition and its Limits. Kant and Hegel on Mechanism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, PhD Dissertation MA-Thesis Advisor: Quirin Oberrauch, Frege on Thoughts and Logical Force (in German) Franz Seitz, Kant and Newton on Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Experience (in German) Franziska Spöttl, Kant on Empirical Cognition (in German) Max Pointner, The Concept of Form in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (in English) Kathrin Menden, On the Use of Examples in Philosophy (in German) Jeremy Schneider, Wittgenstein on Proper Names and Referrring (in English) Nele Köstler, Autonomy and Self-Legislation. Analysis of an Apparent Paradox in 4 Kant’s “Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals” and the “Critique of Practical Reason” UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING BA-Thesis Advisor: Johannes Mirwald, Moral Particularism and Practical Perception (in German) Johannes Grajcarek, Hegel’s Conception of a Philosophical System (in German) Maxime Weber, The Time-image in Deleuze and Tarkovskij (in German) Hannah Sommer, A critical Investigation of various uses of the concept of a “person” in contemporary empirical psychology (In German) Paul Neven du Mont, The Spontaneity of the Understanding (In German) Marvin Tritschler, “Identity and Difference”. The Problem of Cognition in Hegel’s Early Writings (in German) Tamina Wüst, Wittgenstein’s Use of Jokes (in German) Johannah Grießhammer, The Foundations of Knowledge according to Fichte’s Earliest Writings (in German) Sebastian Kniep, Meaning as Use and the Rule-Following Paradox (in German) Peri Huber, Wittgenstein on Self-Knowledge (in German) Philipp Tschochohei, The Art of Narration in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction Isabel Sickenberger, Arthur Danto’s Thesis about the End of Art. A Critical Evaluation (in German) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Coordinator of the newly-created MA-programme in Theoretical Philosophy at LMU Munich, 2012-14, 2016-18 Graduate Admissions Committee (MA-programme in Theoretical Philosophy), 2012- 14, 2016-18 Member of numerous examining boards (BA-, MA- and PhD- level) at LMU, 2009- 2014, 2016-2018 OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for European Journal of Philosophy, Acta Analytica, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Hegel-Bulletin, Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Idealistic Studies, Hegel-Studien 5 LANGUAGES (spoken and written): German, English, French, Czech (basic reading abilities): Latin, Ancient Greek, Polish LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS Three Attitudes towards Nature Invited lecture, Conference: Hegel and the Unity of Science, Purdue University, February 2020 Hegel on our Attitudes towards Nature The University of Chicago, Philosophy Department, job talk, January 2020 Hölderlin (and Hegel) on Recollection Invited lecture, Conference “Critique, Commentary and Translation“, Tel Aviv University, December 2020 Hegel’s Idea of a Philosophy of Nature Invited lecture, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,