Dr. Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter

Historian of philosophy by background, for some time with research interests in the field of Digital Humanities, engaged in multilingual and multidisciplinary canon research for the 18th century in the context of Mining and Modeling Text - MiMoText.

Topics: Methods of Text Analysis, Digital Literary and Cultural Studies

Curriculum Vitae

2001 PhD in philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster, summa cum laude.
2004 - 2013 research associate at the FernUniversität in Hagen,
2013-2019 assistant professor at a Russian university (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies),
until 2022 associate professor. 2022 return to Germany for political reasons

Committee work, research groups and memberships

2015– Associate editor , Palgrave Communications.
2017–2022 member of Editorial Board , Filozofia.
2004–2007 Managing Director, European Society for Early Modern Philosophy, Hagen.

Expert activity

• Journal of Early Modern Studies
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• Kantian Review
• Annals of Science
• Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen
• Croatian Science Foundation
• Bloomsbury Series in Modern German Philosophy
• HOPOS - The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
• Journal of Cultural Analytics
• dhd 2020
• dhd 2022

Scholarships and Awards

2002-2004 Post doc, Fritz-Thyssen Foundation
2001-2002 Post doc, Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum, Marburg, Wuppertal, Atlanta, Stony Brook
1996-1999 Doctoral fellowship, Cusanuswerk, Bonn

Publications

Auszug

“Apperception as ‘Radical Faculty’”. In: Kant’s Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception. New Interpretations. Hrsg. von Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting und Udo Thiel. Im Druck. Berlin Boston: de Gruyter.
“Hurtado de Mendoza and Arriaga on the Life of Plants and the Life of God.” In: Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641): System, Sources, Influence, hrsg. von Daniel Novotný. In Vorbereitung.
“Data Cleaning als digitale Quellenkritik - VD17 und das Genre der katholischen Dissertation im Alten Reich”. In: Dhd-2022 Book of Abstracts Potsdam, 2022. https://zenodo.org/record/6328027 (besucht am 27. 03. 2022).
“Wolffians and the Emancipation of Aesthetic Faculties”. In: The Force of an Idea: New Essays on Christian Wolff’s Psychology. Hrsg. von Saulo de Freitas Araujo und Thomas Sturm. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021, S. 217–230.

Courses