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Stefan Gerlach is apl. Prof. (adjunct professor) in the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen. Trained widely across philosophy, art history, law, mathematics and literary studies, he has held consecutive DFG research projects on Schelling since 2014 and completed his habilitation in 2018.
Education & career:
- 2005 – M.A. (Tübingen) in Philosophy, Art History, Law, Mathematics, German & Romance Studies
- 2008 – Doctorate (Tübingen): Wie ist Freiheit möglich? (Kant and determinism)
- 2014-2018 – Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Philosophisches Seminar, Tübingen (DFG project on action theory in late Schelling)
- 2018 – Habilitation & venia legendi; title of thesis: Handlung bei Schelling
- 2019-2022 – Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter with independent DFG project on Schelling’s theory of Potenz
- Since 2019 – apl. Prof. (adjunct professor), University of Tübingen
Research interests: Historically he concentrates on German Idealism (Schelling, Kant), but also publishes on Plato, Descartes, Husserl and medieval thinkers such as Peter Abelard. Systematically his work centres on the foundations of practical philosophy: action theory, free will vs. determinism, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysics of time. A parallel, smaller profile lies in the history of Cistercian monasteries (especially Bebenhausen), reflected in art-historical essays on Gothic architecture and regional legend.
Publications: His monographs Handlung bei Schelling (2019) and Wie ist Freiheit möglich? (2010) frame a corpus of some twenty-five research articles. Recent papers explore the structure of intentional action, the introduction of the concept of Potenz in Schelling’s 1799/1800 Naturphilosophie, and the temporal anatomy of goals and intentions. The overall trajectory reveals a steady engagement with late-idealist attempts to ground both divine and human freedom, analysed through the lenses of contemporary action theory and the metaphysics of time.
Contact & office: Room 214, Bursagasse 1, D-72070 Tübingen; e-mail: stefan.gerlach@uni-tuebingen.de; consultation hour Mondays 9-10 a.m. (from Oct 2024).
