Paraconsistency & Dialetheism
An
Introduction to Paraconsistent Logics
(2005)
True Contradictions for the Sober Minded
Believing and Asserting Contradictions, Logique et Analyse, 2007.
The Inexpressibility of Gaps in Ordinary Language
Kearns' Illocutionary Logic and the Liar, History & Philosophy of Logic, 2007, cf. A Comment on Laurence Goldstein's 'A Consistent Way with Paradox'
Noneism as Ontological Free Lunch? A Case Study of Method in Metaphysics, Logos Architekton, II (2008)
[Review] Hartry Field. Saving Truth from Paradox, Philosophy in Review, 2009.
Modality and Semantics
Against Metaphysical Necessity.
Modality and Belief Revision
in Updated Logical Empiricism
(2025)
supplementary:
Java classes (zip-file)
modelling simple global algorithms of Belief Revision
(Contraction, Expansion, Revision)
Beyond Us. Realism, the Creation of Logic, and the Scope of Possibility
Constructing Possible Worlds Algorithmically
Is There An Analytic Limit of Genuine Modal Realism?, Mind, 2003.
Manuel E. Bremer
bremer[at]mbph.de
PhD in Philosophy, 1993
University of
Cologne, Germany.
Postdoctoral Thesis in Philosophy, 2001
(German 'Habilitation')
University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
Philosophy of Set Theory
Universality and the
Universe in ZFC
part of
Universality in Set Theories
(2010).
Varieties of Finitism, Metaphysica, 8 (2007)
Frege's Basic Law V and Cantor's Theorem, cf. Concepts and Objects - What Else to Say? Is Frege's Ontological Dualism Inexpressible?, cf. Frege's Theory of Sentential Unity and Russell's Theories of Propositions, sections from Concept and Analysis (2013; Open Access); cf. [Review] Recent Work on Frege, Philosophy in Review, 2012, and [Review] Starting from Sentential Unity. Zalabardo's Reading of the Tractatus, BWS Reviews, 2016.
Philosophy of Information & Computation
Situated Information Flow. Introduction to a Situation Theoretical Framework.
Information and Information Flow. An Introduction (2004), co-author Daniel Cohnitz [Book Download]
Do Logical Truths Carry Information? Mind and Machines, 2003.
The Church-Turing Thesis; cf. What is an Algorithm?
How to Understand 'Superhuman Intelligence' in the Debate about AI?
Landin's Thesis and the Issue of 'Syntactic Sugar'
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Vagueness and Its Logic (2026)
supplementary: an automated decision procedure for the logic PCV (in Prolog, txt-file)
Negative Introspection is Mysterious
Two Concepts of Universal Logic; cf. On the Very Idea of Revision of Logic
Truth Value Talk Without Quotation, Brendel, E. et al (Eds.) Understanding Quotation, Berlin/New York, 2011.
On Restall and Beall on Logical Pluralism, Erkenntnis, 2014
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Animal Sentience. A Study of Paradigmatic Aguments in Cognitive Science (2026)
Do Cats Have Beliefs?, Hales, S. (Ed.) What Philosophy Teaches You about Your Cat, Open Court, 2008.
Java classes (zip-file) illustrating John Pollock's Cognitive Carpentry project. (Readme.txt)
Representational Structures in Consciousness
[Review] Peter Carruthers. Consciousness, Minds and Machines, 2008.
Lessons from Sartre for Analytic Philosophy of Mind, Dreyfus, H. & Wrathall, M. (Eds.) Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Oxford, 2006.
[Review] David Woodruff Smith/Amie Thomasson (Eds). Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Minds and Machines, 2008.
Conceptual Atomism, parts of Conceptual Atomism and Justificationist Semantics (2008)
How are Semantic Metarepresentations Built and Processed? Kriterion, 26 (2012)
Identity of Individual and Cosmic Consciousness? A Critique of Advaitic Apologetics
Semantik und Epistemologie
Philosophische Semantik (2005)
Konzeptionen von Einfachheit und von Kohärenz
Wahrheit im Internen Realismus, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2000.
Verifikationismus, Schrenk, M. (Hg.) Handbuch der Metaphysik, 2017.
Richard Hönigswalds Transzendentale Sprachphilosophie, Aufklärung und Kritik, 2001 & 2011.
Habermas' Konsenstheorie der Wahrheit
Philosophie des Geistes
Ist alles berechenbar?
Was leistet das Computermodel des
Geistes?
(2025)
Naturalisierungen & Eliminative Strategien, Auszüge aus: Rationalität und Naturalisierung. Berlin, 2001.
"ich", ich und nochmals Ich. Zur logischen Struktur des Wissens von sich
Tierisches Bewusstsein als Testfall für die Kognitionswissenschaften, Bewusstsein: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, München, 2005; Methodologische Überlegungen zu tierischen Überzeugungen, Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 2007; Tierisches Bewusstsein, Anthropomorphismus und Heterophänomenologie, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2006.
[Rezension] Andreas Kemmerling: Glauben, Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, 2018.
Logik und Philosophie der Logik
Parakonsistente Logiken, Auszüge aus: Wahre Widersprüche. Sankt Augustin, 1998.
Hinsichten, in denen Logik für Philosophen relevant ist; vgl. das Beispiel: Eine Notiz zu den Argumentationsstrukturen in Kants 'Widerlegung des Idealismus', Kant Studien, 2001
Die Familie der nicht-deduktiven Schlüsse
Was können wir vom Unendlichen erkennen?
Anti-psychologistische Konzeptionen der Logik als Beginn der Analytischen Philosophie
Teilen Russell und Whitehead eine Philosophie der Mathematik?, Whitehead Studien, 2023.
Religionsphilosophie
Das Jenseits in den Grenzen
der bloßen Vernunft
(2025)
Ein, kein oder zuviel Sinn des Lebens? vgl. Der Sinn des Lebens. Ein Beitrag zur Analytischen Religionsphilosophie (Egelsbach et al., 2002).
Negative Theologie, Mysterien und erweiterter Sprachgebrauch in der Religionsphilosophie
last update: September 2026
