Amrei Bahr – författare

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has also contributed greatly to metaphysics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of language.This book, resulting from the 18th Münster Lectures in Philosophy, includes an original article by Sosa on his most recent work in epistemology, and seven critical papers that target a wide range of topics from Sosa’s oeuvre, as well as Sosa’s responses. As regards his epistemology, the issues discussed include his solution of the sceptical problem in his most recent work and the question of how to integrate a sensible account of testimony to Sosa’s virtue epistemology. The selected topics from his other fields of inquiry include his view on empirical challenges to human rationality, his defense of the scientific status of philosophy,  his concept of causality as considered against the background of the current debate, his suggestion of a middle-way between existential relativism and absolutism and his externalistic internalism in the philosophy of mind and language.

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has also contributed greatly to metaphysics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of language.This book, resulting from the 18th Münster Lectures in Philosophy, includes an original article by Sosa on his most recent work in epistemology, and seven critical papers that target a wide range of topics from Sosa’s oeuvre, as well as Sosa’s responses. As regards his epistemology, the issues discussed include his solution of the sceptical problem in his most recent work and the question of how to integrate a sensible account of testimony to Sosa’s virtue epistemology. The selected topics from his other fields of inquiry include his view on empirical challenges to human rationality, his defense of the scientific status of philosophy,  his concept of causality as considered against the background of the current debate, his suggestion of a middle-way between existential relativism and absolutism and his externalistic internalism in the philosophy of mind and language.

Dies ist die erste philosophische Monografie zum Thema Kopieren: Amrei Bahr analysiert auf der Grundlage einer begrifflichen Untersuchung und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele die Auswirkungen des Kopierens auf die moralischen Rechte von Urheber:innen und entwickelt eine philosophische Theorie der Kopie.Kopieren ist Bestandteil unserer Alltagshandlungen: Die Übernahme von Textpassagen per Copy & Paste, das Versenden privater Fotos über Messenger-Dienste, das Teilen von Inhalten in den Sozialen Medien (etwa mittels der Retweet-Funktion bei Twitter), aber auch das Duplizieren von Papierdokumenten mit Kopierern und Scannern – es vergeht kaum ein Tag, an dem wir nicht kopieren. Angesichts der vielen Vorteile des Kopierens ist dessen Omnipräsenz nicht verwunderlich: Kopieren ermöglicht die Teilhabe an Bildung und Kultur, es kann als Mittel der Selbstdarstellung und Identitätsfindung dienen oder als kommunikativer Akt. Als künstlerische Praktik trägt es maßgeblich zur Entstehung neuer Werke bei. Auch eine schnelle und mühelose Verbreitung von Informationen wird durch das Kopieren gewährleistet. Was aber zeichnet diejenigen Dinge eigentlich aus, die beim Kopieren entstehen – und welche Rolle spielt es für die moralische Bewertung von Kopierhandlungen, dass sie für die Urheber:innen der kopierten Gegenstände Nachteile mit sich bringen können?