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
Logic & Formal Ontology
Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
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Notes
on Vagueness
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Negative Introspection and
Knowledge as True Belief
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An Introduction to Paraconsistent Logics. Bern/New York/Frankfurt, 2005; cf. True Contradictions for the Sober Minded; cf. Believing and Asserting Contradictions, Logique et Analyse, 2007; cf. Why and How to Be a Dialetheist, Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2008; cf. on gap approaches to paradox: Kearns's Illocutionary Logic and the Liar, History and Philosophy of Logic, 2008, and The Inexpressibility of Gaps in Ordinary Language
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Varieties of Finitism, Metaphysica, 8 (2007)
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Against Metaphysical Necessity. Modality and Belief Revision in Updated Logical Empiricism (Berlin, 2025)
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Frege's Basic Law V and Cantor's Theorem; cf. on set theory: Universality in Set Theories. A Study in Formal Ontology. Frankfurt, 2010: Download
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On Restall and Beall on Logical Pluralism, Erkenntnis, 2014; cf. Two Concepts of Universal Logic and A Universal Natural Deduction System
cf. Constructing Possible Worlds Algorithmically; cf. God's Nature and the Creation of Logic; cf. Everything Is Possible; cf. Is there an Analytic Limit of Genuine Modal Realism?, Mind, 2003.
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Beyond the Turing Limit? (Slides), (Text); cf. Landin's Thesis and the Issue of 'Syntactic Sugar'; cf. What is an Algorithm?
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Noneism as Ontological Free Lunch? A Case Study of Method in Metaphysics, Logos Architekton, II (2008)
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Representational Structures in Consciousness;
cf.
Lessons from Sartre for Analytic Philosophy of Mind,
Dreyfus, H. & Wrathall, M. (Eds.) Blackwell Companion to
Phenomenology and Existentialism,
Oxford, 2006.
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Concept and Analysis. A Study in the Theory of Concepts and Analytic Metaphilosophy. Berlin, 2013 (Open Access); cf. Living without Sense and Use. Theses towards a Representationalist Account of Meaning; cf. the book Conceptual Atomism and Justificationist Semantics, Bern/New York/Frankfurt, 2008; cf. How are Semantic Metarepresentations Built and Processed? Kriterion, 26 (2012).
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Internal Realism, An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, 2008
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Java classes (zip-file) modelling simple versions of global algorithms of Belief Revision (Contraction, Expansion, Revision) following Neil Tennant's project Changes of Mind; cf. 'Oscar Reloaded' (zip-file), a collection of Java classes with a partial implementation or illustration of John Pollock's Cognitive Carpentry project.
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How to Understand 'Superhuman Intelligence' in the Debate about AI?
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Do Logical Truths Carry Information? Mind and Machines, 2003
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Animal Consciousness as a Test Case for Cognitive Science; cf. Do Cats Have Beliefs?, What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Cat, ed. by S. Hales, Chicago, 2008; cf. Pro Pain. On the Role of the Phenomenon of Pain in Studying Animal Minds, Das Problem des Übels, ed. by P. Weingartner, Frankfurt, 2005.
Information and Information Flow. An Introduction
Logik & Formale Ontologie
Philosophie des Geistes und der Kognition
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Vorlesungen zur Epistemischen Logik
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Logik & Form/Formalismus, Lexikon der Geisteswissenschaften, 2011. Hinsichten in denen Logik für Philosophie relevant ist; eine Implementation eines Entscheidungsverfahrens der parakonsistenten Logik Logic of Paradox (in Prolog)
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Gegen metaphysische Notwendigkeit; vgl. Possibilia: notwendig, möglich oder überflüssig?, Metaphysica, 2000; vgl. allgemein dazu: Modales Natürliches Schließen, Aachen, 2007; vgl. auch: Negative Freie Logik
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"Es fehlt die Institution des Endes". Wittgensteinscher Finitismus und Fiktionalismus
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'Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge', Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1999.
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Vorlesungen zum Begriff der Unendlichkeit
CV
Promotion: 1993, Universität Köln
Habilitation: 2001, Universität Düsseldorf
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Philosophische Semantik
(Frankfurt,
2005)
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Computational Theory of Mind, Conceptual Atomism und Lexikalisches Wissen; vgl. Sprache und Denken
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Ist alles berechenbar? Was leistet das Computermodel des Geistes? (Baden-Baden, 2025)
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"ich", ich und nochmals Ich. Zur logischen Struktur des Wissens von sich; vgl. eine partielle Formalisierung von Chisholms de se Theorie des Selbstbewusstseins
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Tierisches Bewusstsein, Anthropomorphismus und Heterophänomenologie, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2006 (Folien). Tierisches Bewusstsein als Testfall für die Kognitionswissenschaften, Bewusstsein: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, München, 2005; vgl. Methodologische Überlegungen zu tierischen Überzeugungen, Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 2007
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Erläuterungen zum Begriff der 'Einfachheit' und zum Begriff der 'Kohärenz'
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Wahrheit im Internen Realismus, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2000; Eine Notiz zu den Argumentationsstrukturen in der "Widerlegung des Idealismus", Kant-Studien, 2001.
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Rationalität und Naturalisierung. 'Vernunft' und 'Verstand' in der Analytischen Philosophie, Berlin, 2001. Text des Einleitungskapitels; Verifikationismus, Handbuch Metaphysik, hg. v. M. Schrenk, Stuttgart, 2017.
September 2025