Dominik Perler

Dominik Perler (born 17 March 1965) is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and co-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Human Abilities.

Career Perler studied Philosophy and Russian Literature at the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), Bern and Göttingen. He received his doctorate in Fribourg in 1991 with the thesis Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert. He then worked as a visiting scholar at Cornell University in 1991/92, as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992/93 and as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen from 1993 to 1995. In 1996 he habilitated there with the thesis Representation in Descartes. In 1996/97 Perler was a Fellow of All Souls and University Lecturer at the University of Oxford. In 1997 the University of Basel appointed him full professor of philosophy. Since 2003 he has been professor of theoretical philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert. De Gruyter, Berlin 1992. Repräsentation bei Descartes. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1996. Chinese translation: 笛卡尔论表征, Beijing: The Commercial Press 2023. René Descartes. Beck, München 1998; second edition 2006. mit Ulrich Rudolph: Occasionalismus. Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000. Theorien der Intentionalität im Mittelalter. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002; second edition 2004; third edition 2020. Shorter French edition: Théories de l’intentionnalité au Moyen Age, Paris: Vrin 2003. Full Russian translation: Teorii intenzionalnosti v srednie veka, Moskva: Izdatelskii dom delo 2016. Zweifel und Gewissheit. Skeptische Debatten im Mittelalter. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006; second edition 2012. Transformationen der Gefühle. Philosophische Emotionstheorien 1270–1670. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011. English translation: Feelings Transformed. Philosophical Theories of the Emotions 1270-1670, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. Eine Person sein. Philosophische Debatten im Spätmittelalter. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2020.

Editorships

Source:

Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality. Brill, Leiden 2001. with Ansgar Beckermann: Klassiker der Philosophie heute. Reclam, Stuttgart 2004. with Markus Wild: Der Geist der Tiere. Philosophische Texte zu einer aktuellen Debatte. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005. with Ulrich Rudolph: Logik und Theologie. Das Organon im arabischen und im lateinischen Mittelalter. Brill, Leiden 2005. with Markus Wild: Sehen und Begreifen. Wahrnehmungstheorien in der frühen Neuzeit. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008. with Johannes Haag: Ideen. Repräsentationalismus in der Frühen Neuzeit. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010. with Klaus Corcilius: Partitioning the Soul. Debates from Plato to Leibniz. De Gruyter, Berlin 2014. with Sonja Schierbaum: Selbstbezug und Selbstwissen. Texte zu einer mittelalterlichen Debatte. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2014. The Faculties: A History (Series “Oxford Philosophical Concepts”), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015. with Sebastian Bender: Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, London: Routledge 2020; paperback edition 2021. with Sebastian Bender: Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy, London: Routledge 2024.