Manuel E. Bremer bremer[at]mbph.de
Central Views:
Logic: contextually applied classical and non-classical logics, but one universal framework (adaptive logical universalism); minimal dialetheism (in semantics)
Formal Ontology: set theoretical fictionalism, accepting ZFC as standard; modal ersatzism and language dependent modalities
Metaphysics: structural realism and further on: metaphysical agnosticism; language dependent ontologies (e.g. as modelling proposals put forth by reflection on science and languages)
Semantics: Conceptual Atomism (disquotational semantics) coupled with (not meaning constitutive) justification rules of concept application, and conceptual link postulates yielding analytic sentences
Epistemology: coherentist justification coupled with limited externalism
Mind & Cognition: Representational Theory of Mind and a limited Computational Theory of Cognition; importance of Church Turing Thesis and algorithmic models: symbolic and rule based AI as method of elucidating concepts and capacities
Philosophy: reflection on natural language and planning of formal languages as elucidating concepts and rule systems; some Phenomenology w.r.t. consciousness
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PhD in Philosophy, 1993, University of Cologne, Germany.
Postdoctoral Thesis in Philosophy (German 'Habilitation'), 2001, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
(Bern/New York/Frankfurt a.M., 2005)
Modality and Belief Revision
in Updated Logical Empiricism
(Berlin, 2025)
A Study in the Theory of Concepts
and Analytic Metaphilosophy.
(Berlin, 2013; Open Access)
cf. True Contradictions for the Sober Minded
cf. Believing and Asserting Contradictions, Logique et Analyse, 2007
cf. The Inexpressibility of Gaps in Ordinary Language
cf. Parakonsistente Logiken (in German)
supplementary:
Java classes (zip-file)
modelling simple versions of global algorithms of
Belief Revision (Contraction, Expansion, Revision)
cf. Updated Logical Empiricism
cf.
Für-möglich-Halten
(in
German)
cf. How are Semantic Metarepresentations Built and Processed? Kriterion, 26 (2012).
(Draft)
Logic
Negative Introspection and Knowledge as True Belief
On Restall and Beall on Logical Pluralism, Erkenntnis, 2014
Two Concepts of
Universal Logic
Transcendental Logic as Universal Logic
God's Nature, the Creation of Logic, and the Scope of Possibility
Formal Ontology
Varieties of Finitism, Metaphysica, 8 (2007)
Frege's Basic Law V and Cantor's Theorem
Universality and the Universe in ZFC (part of the book Universality in Set Theories, Frankfurt a.M., 2010)
Noneism as Ontological Free Lunch? A Case Study of Method in Metaphysics, Logos Architekton, II (2008)
Computation
'Oscar Reloaded' (zip-file), a collection of Java classes with a partial implementation or illustration of John Pollock's Cognitive Carpentry project.
How to Understand 'Superhuman Intelligence' in the Debate about AI?
Constructing Possible Worlds Algorithmically
Information and Information Flow. An Introduction (Frankfurt a.M., 2004, Download), co-author Daniel Cohnitz
Do Logical Truths Carry Information? Mind and Machines, 2003
Information Flow in Distributed Systems (Slides)
cf. Lessons from Sartre for Analytic Philosophy of Mind, Dreyfus, H. & Wrathall, M. (Eds.) Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Oxford, 2006
cf. Representational Structures in Consciousness
(Frankfurt a.M, 2005)
Was leistet das Computermodel des Geistes?
(Baden-Baden, 2025)
(Münster, 2025)
vgl. Lexikalisches Wissen und Atomismus der Begriffe (Folien)
vgl. Ist Verneinen Behaupten des Gegenteils? (Folien)
vgl. Naturalisierungen & Eliminative Strategien, Auszüge aus: Rationalität und Naturalisierung. Berlin, 2001.
vgl. "ich", ich und nochmals Ich. Zur logischen Struktur des Wissens von sich
vgl. Tierisches Bewusstsein als Testfall für die Kognitionswissenschaften, Bewusstsein: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, München, 2005; Methodologische Überlegungen zu tierischen Überzeugungen, Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 2007.
vgl. Was können wir vom Unendlichen erkennen?
vgl. Der Sinn des Lebens. Ein Beitrag zur Analytischen Religionsphilosophie (Frankfurt a.M., 2001): Zusammenfassung