Joachim Leilich

Joachim Leilich (born 1949) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp, of German origin, who formerly held positions as a tutor and student-assistant at the university of Frankfurt. in 1982, he was awarded his doctoral degree in philosophy for his thesis Ludwig Wittgenstein entitled "The Autonomy of Language" ,

Amongst the courses which Leilich taught at the University of Antwerp are "Contemporary Analytical Philosophy", "Philosophy of Language", "Logic" and "Epistemology and Philosophy of Science". Leilich was noted for his unusual method of stepwise grading during exams.

In 2014, Leilich became an emeritus professor at the University of Antwerp. On 22 May 2014, he held his emeritus lecture about the Jewish roots of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Philosophy

By September 2004 he had published around thirty articles; primarily about language (analytical) philosophy, in particular in relation to Wittgenstein, and about philosophy of mind. Many of his publications focus on the problem of the free will.

Leilich has argued that nature is neither evil nor good, since moral proclamations require the involvement of mind to be appropriate. and has reflected upon the arising of new branches of science during popularizing lecture series.

Further more he has investigated the mental processing of sensory stimuli.