Nicolai Hartmann Society

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this website is no more maintained. Please visit the new website of the Nicolai Hartmann Society at http://nicolaihartmannsociety.org/

Founded in March 2009, the Nicolai Hartmann Society is a learned society bringing together international scholars interested in Hartmann’s philosophy. The Society’s purpose is to promote and foster the study of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, its place in the history of philosophy, and its relevance for contemporary issues and fields of knowledge. This homepage provides a platform to host contributions on Hartmann, keep an updated bibliography of works on his philosophy, and advertize relevant events.

Membership grants inclusion and access to the NHS electronic mailing list, used to communicate information concerning events, calls for papers, and any other project related to Hartmann's philosophy and life. The growing mailing list, already containing more than fifty addresses of Hartmann-scholars world-wide, is put to the disposal of members wishing to make an announcement.

If you would like to become a member of the Nicolai Hartmann Society write to the address below, with the subject header "membership request" and basic information (institution of affiliation, degree, area of specialization, etc.)

nicolaihartmannsociety@mail.com

Nicolai Hartmann International Conference 2010

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The Nicolai Hartmann Society Bulletin

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The NHS-Bulletin is the newsletter of the NHS. It appears yearly and publishes a report of the latest NHS activities, short articles, interviews, book reviews, calls for papers, and other kinds of information relevant to Hartmann studies. We require the submissions to conform to a fixed format, and to undergo a peer-review process with at least one referee acquainted with Hartmann's work.

Basic format requirements for articles:

An abstract of about 100-200 words.

When citations are provided in German accompanied with an English translation, only the English translation should appear in the body of the text; the German citation can thereby either be moved to footnotes or removed.

The language used to refer to books should be consistently homogeneous. For instance, would a paper mention two titles such as “Teleologisches Denken” and “Philosophy of Nature,” the author would be required to homogenize the language either by using only the German or by translating both into English.

German quotation marks („…“) must be replaced by English quotation marks (“…”), even for quotes in German.

For the sake of homogeneity, the texts should be submitted in American English. For instance, “behaviour” becomes “behavior,” “favour” becomes “favor,” etc.

The NHS-Bulletin follows the convention according to which periods and commas should be written inside the quotation marks. For instance: Hartmann introduced the concept of “superformation.”

Book titles and abbreviations of book titles should be in italics, and titles of articles should be in quotation marks.

Quotations of more than 40 words should be indented.

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Exploring Levels of Reality: A Metanexus Conference in Madrid (July 2008)

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by Carlo Scognamiglio*

The session “Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality”, within the Metanexus event “Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood” (Madrid, 13-17 July, 2008), proposed different points of view on the problem of an antireductionist theory of reality.
Basarab Nicolescu (CIRET) spoke about The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood. In his lecture, Nicolescu clarified some terminological aspects of the question: he explains that the word “reductionism” is often used in two different ways by philosophers and scientists; while philosophers intend reductionism as a theoretical form of understanding, in effect, the complexity understood in a simple way, scientists especially proceed by reducing the spiritual to the material. Secondly, terminology needs clarification about three kinds of reductionism: methodological (reduction of different procedures to only one methodology), theoretical (reduction of different theories in a single one), ontological (reducing the discontinuities present in being through a unified theory of the world). A non-reductionist perspective must be instead based on two necessary scientific attitudes: holism and emergentism. In this way, Nicolescu can define the reality as «that which resists to our experiences, representations, descriptions, images, mathematical formulations», but reality is for him also accessible to our knowledge, with accessibility through its “transsubjectivity”. His modern references for a theory of levels of reality are Nicolai Hartmann and Heisenberg, with the latter being likely the greater influence. Following Heisenberg, he proposed a first distinction on three levels: 1) fields which embody objectivity in an independent way from the knowledge process (studied by physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity); 2) fields inseparable from the knowledge process (studies by quantum mechanicism, biology, science of consciousness); 3) fields created in connection with the knowledge process (philosophy, art, politics, metaphors of God, religious experience and artistic creative experiences). On this basis Nicolescu wants to edify a new transdisciplinary approach that takes into consideration ontological, logical and epistemological axioms. On the ontological side of his developments on transdisciplinarity, he asserted the importance of the notions of discontinuity as an aside, and, in a way less explicitly, in his view the levels could became infinite. There is also another group of theses that appear sometimes obscure; for example the idea for which every level is incomplete, but also the assertion of the ossimoric nature of “subject-objectivity” as the basis of transdiscplinarity. In fact, Nicolescu even thinks that we can conciliate reductionism and non-reductionism, through trans-reductionism.

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Along with Nicolescu, other speakers also spoke, generally at a very broad level of debate. Roy Clouser (College of New Jersey), who focused his attention on the problem of A Blueprint for a Non-Reductionist Theory of Reality, critically analyzed the nature of religious belief, individuating the situation of a “divine” reductionism: the idea of a crucial reconduction to the creator of all the reality levels. William Mathews (Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin), in his lecture on Understanding Levels: Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View underscored the importance of some classical concepts of a non-reductionist approach, first of all the notion of “emergence”, which reveals itself as inescapable for a transdisciplinary approach to personhood, but also forces us to develop a theory of levels.
Carlo Scognamiglio (PhD Student, University of Rome “La Sapienza”), discussing Human Being and Non-Reductionist Conception of Determination, started from a distinction: if in the most famous debates on reductionism the centre of the question is the possibility of reducing the essence of a whole to its parts, and in this sense the attention of scientists and scholars is often concentred on the discussion about a static object, a concrete epistemological praxis is constituted by the reduction of every kind of process, and in particular Scognamiglio referred to causal or determination processes. There are indeed two possible ways to edify a reductionist solution in determination processes: mechanicism and finalism. In both cases, we are faced with a reduction operation, because the multiplicity and the variety of the real processes are simplified in a single model. In agreement with Nicolai Hartmann, Scognamiglio defended a stratified conception of the real world, where the subject, in his behaviour, is a bundle of processes.
An opposite perspective was formulated by Riccardo Manzotti (IULM, Milan). He proposed, speaking about The Relational Nature of the Physical World as a Foundation for the Conscious Mind, a psychological theory that reduces the difference between subject and object in the process of representation, evoking some example from Gestalt theories of perception. He sustained that the idea of autonomy of the object inhibits any developed explanation of our experience (and he referred probably to only sense experience). However, in his solipsistic and maybe Protagorean approach, he did not consider the problem of knowledge phenomenon, which needs to exist (and to offer itself) in autonomy from the object.
The instances of a multistratified conception of reality and of a change of paradigms was analyzed – through the contribution of systemics, by an Italian research-group (Tommaso Bolognesi, Fabio Caporali, Lodovico Galleni, Silvana Procacci, Aurelio Rizzacasa), working on the question: Is There a Hierarchical Consciousness? Individual, Social and Cosmic Consciousness.
On the other hand Cecilia Dockerdoff (Fundaciόn SOLES) spoke about The Long Way from Non-Reductionism to Transdisciplinarity: Critical Questions about Levels of Reality and the Constitution of Human Beings. She considered reductionism not only as a scientific or philosophical problem, but in its cultural role in the relationship between human and nature in everyday life. However, as consequence of her analysis in sociology and communication she observed that transdisciplinarity needs a scientific and philosophical legitimization, first of all, because this is crucial for an educational and common-sense acquisition. Remaining in the horizon of the “social studies”, James Skillen expressed his perspective on The Necessity of a Non-Reductionist Science of Politics, and Adolfo García de la Sienra (Veracruzana University), in his lecture, depth the problems of The Economic Sphere. In his view, a non-reductionist theory on economic “level” admits other spheres of human life and not only the economic, even though they have an economic side. This approach has as a consequence that also other aspects of consumers’ motivation influence the constitution of the value, and it is not enough to explain with a theory on division of labour. In the part of his lecture on “the modal laws of economics”, García began an analysis of the economic domain, where the peculiar and meta-historical categories appear to be first efficiency, but also the distribution of goods and the division of labour. In particular about the latter, García founded a confirmation of his theory in the works of the most radical critic of the labour’s division, Karl Marx, who wrote that also in a social system of production, it would be impossible to eliminate that kind of “distribution”, which can only change its form. Marx named that “category” of distribution as “natural”, but in this discussion we can consider that as “ontological”. A bridge between social sciences and ethics was then thrown from Egbert Schumann, who spoke about The Ethics of Responsibility as a Comprehensive Approach: An Application to the Ethics of Technology.
On the horizon of other scientific perspectives, we must consider the contributions of Daniel F. M. Strauss on The Significance of a Non-Reductionist Ontology for the Disciplines of Mathematics and Physics–an Historical and Systematic Analysis, of Ingolf Schmid-Tannwald on Fertilisation: The Unification of the Immaterial Interpersonal (Social) Reality and the Biological Reality Constituting Personhood in Human Beings, of Liliana Albertazzi on Why Perception is Not Reducible to Physics? and, in an epistemological formulation, of Steven Horst: Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science.
A word of clarification was given in the conclusive lecture of Roberto Poli (University of Trento and Mitteleuropafoundation), who, illustrated his well known theory on “levels of reality” (intended as the general framework able to provide the categorical tools with which to distinguish and coordinate the various disciplinary and technological outcomes), expressed a provocative but interesting assertion: reductionism in science can be accepted because it can give results, but the problem is that sometimes the reductionist methods do not work. For this - but also for a philosophical reason - we need also, and maybe first of all, a non-reductionist theory of reality, based on an ontological, and not epistemological, approach. For him all the sciences have a basic ontological orientation, but ontology must be intended as an autonomous discipline, which analyzes the links among results of the various sciences. But in this moment we have not an adequate ontological framework, maybe because the pictures yielded by the different sciences are categorically different, and no conceptual framework able to synthesize them properly is available. The future of this research needs to develop in the same time particular sciences and an ontological conception of the world.

*report published on Semiotix 13 (http://www.semioticon.com/)

Upcoming events

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Nicolai Hartmann International Conference,

La Sapienza University, Rome, July 19-21, 2010
(Faculty of Philosophy, Hall 1)

Program

Day 1

Session 1. Chairperson: Eugene Kelly

9:00 Opening of the Conference
Welcome Address by Prof. Marta Fattori, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of La Sapienza University
Roberto Poli, Introduction to the First Conference of the Nicolai Hartmann Society (NHS)

9:30-10:30 Joachim Fischer (Dresden University, Germany), Nicolai Hartmann – Key Figure of German Philosophical Anthropology without Belonging to the Paradigm

10:30-11:30 Roberto Poli (University of Trento, Italy), Levels of Reality and the Relations Holding Them Together

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 Jakub Dziadkowiec (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), The Layered Structure of the World in N. Hartmann’s Ontology

Lunch

Session 2. Chairperson: Roberto Poli

14:30-15:30 Carlo Scognamiglio (La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), The Boundary between Psyche and Personal Being in Nicolai Hartmann’s Stratification of the Real World

15:30-16:30 Dimiter Tsatsov (Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria), The Concept of Image in the Ontology of Nicolai Hartmann

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Frederic Tremblay (University at Buffalo, USA), Species as Process: On Hartmann’s Definition of Species

18:00-19:00 Robert Zaborowski (University of Warmia, Poland), Nicolai Hartmann’s Approach to Affectivity and its Relevance for the Current Debate Over Emotions

Day 2

Session 3. Chairperson: Joachim Fischer

9:00-10:00 Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology, USA), Hartmann on the Unity of Moral Value

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Andreas Kinneging (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Hartmann’s Platonic Ethics

Lunch

Session 4. Chairperson: Andreas Kinneging

15:00-16:00 Carlos Matheus (São Paulo, Brazil), The Ethical Building of the World
16:00-17:00 Habib Turker (Duquesne University, USA), Hartmann’s Aesthetics as A Value Science

17:00-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-20:00 Meeting of the NHS

Day 3

Session 5. Chairperson: Frederic Tremblay

9:00-10:00 Javier Cumpa (Complutense University, Madrid), Classical, Phenomenological, and Analytical Theories of Categories

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Giuseppe D’Anna (Foggia University), Hans Pichler’s Influence on Hartmann’s Ontology

11:30-12:30 Salvatore Vasta (Catania University, Italy), The Place of Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology in Konrad Lorenz’s Epistemology

Lunch

Session 6. Chairperson: Carlo Scognamiglio

14:30-15:30 Claudia Luchetti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy), Nicolai Hartmann’s Plato. A Tribute to the “Power of Dialectics” (Parmenides, 135c2)

15:30-16:30 Alicja Pietras (Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland), Nicolai Hartmann as a Post-Neo-Kantian

End of Conference

Past events

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2007

Workshop on Nicolai Hartmann, Biology, and Forms of Life

Thursday–Friday, December 13–14, 2007.
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Organized by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University (Building 6, Seminar room 1.32). Funded by the VolkswagenFoundation – "Forms of Life" Project.
Theme: Philosophy of biology has its peculiar ontological problems such asreductionism, teleology, and the status of species. The German metaphysician Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950) addresses these questions. Hartmann received aformation in medicine prior to entering philosophy, and he is especially interested in making his ontology conform to his knowledge of biology. One of thec entral theses of this ontology is that the world contains four distinct irreducible ontological strata, the organic (biological) realm being one of them. Combined with his general theory of categories, this thesis entails that there is a different set of categories for every stratum. In Philosophische Grundfragender Biologie (1912) and Philosophie der Natur (1950), Hartmann gives an accountof the set of categories belonging to the organic realm — the "organological categories". We think his views on these matters are well worth to be reconsidered and contrasted with the reductionism and nominalism that dominates contemporary analytic metaphysics.

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Program:

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Thursday
14:00 Words of welcome

14:15 Rafael Hüntelmann (Frankfurt), "Nicolai Hartmann's General Ontology"

15:30 Coffee

15:50 Erwin Tegtmeier (Mannheim), "A General Ontologist Looks at Hartmann's Organological Categories"

17:05 Coffee

17:15 Ingvar Johansson (Saarbrücken), "The Relevance of Hartmann's Distinction between Superimposition and Superinformation"

18:30 End of the day

19:30 Dinner
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Friday
9:30 Frédéric Tremblay (Buffalo), "The Ontological Status of Species in Nicolai Hartmann's Organological Categories"

10:45 Coffee

11:05 Helmut Trützschler (Darmstadt), "Über die modale Struktur des Lebensprozesses bei Nicolai Hartmann"

12:20 End of the workshop
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Location: IFOMIS, Saarbrücken

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2001

The Legacy of Nicolai Hartmann An International Conference for the 50th anniversary of Hartmann's death 21-22 June 2001

Speakers:

Roberto Poli, Hartmann Today

Wolfgang Wildgen, Natural Morphologies and Ontological Levels

Liliana Albertazzi, At the Roots of Ontics: Emotional Acts

Predrag Cicovacki, New Ways of Ontology - The Ways of Interaction

Alberto Peruzzi, The Stratified Reality of Nicolai Hartmann

Ingvar Johansson, Hartmann and the Concept of Supervenience

Erwin Tegtmeier, Nicolai Hartmann's Ontologo

Roberto Poli, Brooding over Hartmann's Theory of the Levels of Reality

Gabor Csepregi, The Relevance of Hartmann's Musical Aesthetics

Robert Jordan, Hartmann, Schutz and the Hermeneutics of Action

Antonio Da Re, Objective Spirit and Personal Spirit in Hartmann's Philosophy

Andreas Kinneging, Hartmann's Vindication of the Moral Order

Rafael Huentelmann, N. H. Modal Ontology of Real Beings and the Deterministic Concept of Being

Jerzy Perzanowski, Remarks on Hartmann's Ontological Modalities

Jan Wolenski, Intentio recta, intentio obliqua and the object of knowledge

Book reviews

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2007

Scognamiglio, Carlo, Recensione a: A. Gamba, In principio era il fine. Ontologia e teleologia in Nicolai Hartmann, "La Cultura", 2007, pp. 355-358.

Articles

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Hala V. The question of cultural being in Nicolai Hartmann’s philosophy, «Filosoficky Casopis», 2000, 48, 6, 950-972.
Hlavon K. Recalling Nicolai Hartmann, axiology and ethics, «Filosoficky Casopis», 2000, 48, 6, 947-949.
Matteo A. Il cammino speculativo del giovane Hartmann: dalla logica dell'essere all'ontologia della logica, «Sapienza», 2000, 53, 161-184.

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Bubner R. Nicolai Hartmann. Life, work, influence, «Philosophische Rundschau» 2001, 48, 4, 339.
Gamba A. A cinquant’anni dalla 'Nuova ontologia' di Nicolai Hartmann, «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica», 2001, 93, 74-94.
Philipse H. What is a Natural Conception of the World? «International Journal of Philosophical Studies», 2001, 9, 385-399.
Poli R. (ed.) Legacy of Nicolai Hartmann. Conference: 2001 Jun, Bolzano, Special Issue of «Axiomathes», 2001, 12, 3-4.

Cicovacki P. New ways of ontology - The ways of interaction.
Wildgen W. Natural Ontologies And Semantic Roles In Sentences
Johansson I. Hartmann’s nondeductive materalism, superimposition, and supervenience.
Tegtmeier E. Hartmann’s general ontology.
Peruzzi A. Hartmann’s Stratified Reality.
Poli R. The basic problem of the theory of levels of reality.
Van der Schaar M. Hartmann's rejection of the notion of evidence.
Albertazzi L. The roots of ontics.
Da Re A. Objective Spirit and Personal Spirit in Hartmann's philosophy.
Jordan R.W. Hartmann, Schutz, And The Hermeneutics Of Action.
Csepregi G.The Relevance Of Nicolai Hartmann's Musical Aesthetics
Van Atten M. Gödel, Mathematics, And Possible Worlds

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Akerma K. Wir haben kein Monopol auf Geist. Zur Ontologie von ETI. Nicolai Hartmann (1880-1950), in Id., Ausserirdische Einleitung in die Philosophie. Extraterrestrier im Denken von Epikur bis Jonas, Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, Münster 2002, 225-254.
Jordan R. W. Nicolai Hartmann: Proper Ethics is Atheistic, in Phenomenological approaches to moral philosophy. A handbook, ed by J.J. Drummond and L. Embree, Kluwer, Dordrecht 2002, 175-196.
Kinneging A. A.M. Introduction to: Nicolai Hartmann, Ethics, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 2002-2004 .
Tsatsov D. About the genesis of ontological interpretations of Kant’s philosophy, in Kant and metaphysics, 2002, Publishing house of Blagoevgrad’s university, Blagoevgrad 2002 (in Bulgarian).

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Adeodato J. M. Connaissance et irrationalité: critique à l'ontologie de Nicolai Hartmann dans la philosophie du droit, in La mondialisation entre illusion et utopie, ouvrage publié avec le concours du C.N.R.S., Dalloz, Paris 2003.
Tertulian N. Nicolai Hartmann et Georg Lukács. Une alliance féconde, «Archives de Philosophie», 2003, 46, 663-698.
Tsatsov D. Psychologisation, antipsychologisation and ontologisation in Kantianism, «South-Western lists», 2003, 1 (in Bulgarian).

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Donise A. Soggetto e persona. Una riflessione sull’Etica di Nicolai Hartmann, in S. Achella (a cura di), Le strutture del soggetto, Luciano, Napoli 2004, 151-166.

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Albini M. Nicolai Hartmann tra ontologia ed etica, «Acme», 2005, 57, 3, 293-328.
Bohenski J. Nikolai Hartmann, «Philosophical Library», 2005, 5. (in Bulgarian).
Zeyer K. Erkenntnis im Lichte der kritisch-realistischen Ontologie Nicolai Hartmanns, in Erkenntnistheorie im 20. Jahrundert. Die kontroversen klassischen Positionen von Spicker, Cassirer, Hartmann, Dingler und Popper, Olms, Zürich und New York 2005, 137-199.

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Akerma K. Das embrionale Potenzial als argument gegen die these einer Symmetrie zwischen Lebensende und Lebensbeginn, in Id., Lebensende und Lebensbeginn. Philosophische Implikationen und mentalische Begründung des Hirn-Todeskriteriums, LIT, Hamburg 2006, 347-382.
Cuellar H. Notas breves sobre la nocion de valor en Nicolai Hartmann, «Revista de Filosofia», 2006, 31, 65-82.

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Boboc A. Bemerkungen uber die Modalanalyse bei Leibniz und N. Hartmann, «Revue Roumaine de Philosophie», 2007, 51, 1-2, 63-74.
Da Re A. Persona singola e persona comune: un confronto tra Nicolai Hartmann e Max Scheler, in G. Cusinato (a cura di), Max Scheler. Esistenza della persona e radicalizzazione della fenomenologia, Franco Angeli, Milano 2007, 203-222.
Scognamiglio C. Il problema del soggetto nell’ontologia critica di Nicolai Hartmann, in F.S. Trincia - S. Bancalari (eds.), Perspetives sur le sujet. Prospettive filosofiche sul soggetto, Olms, Hildesheim 2007, 126-145.
Scognamiglio C. Ontologia dei processi di trasformazione e di produzione. Saggio su Nicolai Hartmann, «Il Cannocchiale», 2007, 1, 73-92.
Tsatsov D. The critical ontology of Nikolai Hartman, in V. Kanavrov – V. Petov, etc. (eds.), Ontology in 20th century, Faber, Veliko Tarnovo 2007, 55-80 (in bulgaro).

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Akerma K. Toward an Ontology of Consciousness with Nicolai Hartmann and Hans Jonas, in H.t Wautischer (ed.), Ontology of Consciousness: Percipient Action, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008, 449-474.
D’Anna G. Hartmann interprete di Aristotele, in E. De Bellis, Aristotele e la tradizione aristotelica, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Lecce – 12, 13, 14 giugno 2008, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2008, 123-135.
Echarte L. E. Mind in nature. The problem of the teleology of the unconscious, «Anuario Filosofico», 2008, 12, 4, 383-414.
Gnoli C. Categories and Facets in Integrative Levels, «Axiomathes», 2008, 2, 177-192.
Kelly E. Material Value-Ethics: Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann, in «Philosophy Compass», 2008, 3, 1-16.

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Akerma K. Organic Life, Psychic Life, Spiritual Life and the Living Individual in Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology, in «Nicolai Hartmann Society Bulletin», 2009, 1.
Berlingieri I. Pluralismo evolutivo e nuova ontologia critica: modelli scientifico-filosofici per una concezione stratificata edantiriduzionistica del reale, http://www.pikaia.eu/easyne2/Archivi/PIKAIA/PDF/0004/4852.PDF, 2009.
D’Anna G. Dal conoscere alla realtà senza soggetto, in N. Hartmann, Ontologia e realtà, Morcelliana, Brescia 2009, 15-60.
Scognamiglio C. Anticipation and Future Vision in N. Hartmann’s Ontology, in Understanding anticipatory systems, special issue of «Foresight», a cura di R. Miller e R. Poli 2009.
Scognamiglio C. La risposta dell'ontologia critica al trascendentalismo, «La Cultura», 2009, 2, pp. 321-334.
Scognamiglio C. Nicolai Hartmann: dalla fondazione alla costruzione dell'ontologia, http://www.giornaledifilosofia,net/, 2009.
Smajs J. The Nature of Evolutionary Ontology, «Filozofia», 2009, 64, 2, 324-338.

Books

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Harich W. Nicolai Hartmann: Leben, Werk, Wirkung, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2000.
Hüntelmann R. Möglich ist nur das Wirkliche: Nicolai Hartmanns Modalontologie des realen Seins, J.H. Röll, Dettelbach 2000.
Kim Mi-Won. Grundlegung der Werte in der Lebenswelt des Menschen, Studien zum Pflichtbewußtsein und zur Wertethik, Tectum-Verl, Marburg 2000.

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Reyhani N. Hermann Weins Auseinandersetzung mit Nicolai Hartmann als sein Weg von der Ontologie zu einer philosophischen Kosmologie, Universität Mainz, Fachbereich 11, Philosophie/Pädagogik, Mainz 2001.

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Demir Ç. Nicolai Hartmann ve ontoloji, Diss., Atatürk 2002.
Drummond J.J. – Embree L.E. Phenomenological approaches to moral philosophy: a handbook, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Boston 2002.
Leenders J. Het cement van de psyche: onvoltooide verkenningen in de ontiek van het psychische, met bijzondere aandacht voor het werk van Nicolai Hartmann en Sigmund Freud, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam 2002.

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Ehrl G. Nicolai Hartmanns philosophische Anthropologie in systematischer Perspektive, Verlag Junghans, Ort Cuxhaven 2003.
Kaiser A. Pedagogia e ontologia: saggio su Nicolai Hartmann, Brescia, La Scuola, 2003.

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Ehrl G., Gehlhaar S. S., Zeidler K. W. Zur Präsenz der Philosophie: Kleine Studien zu N. Hartmann, E. Husserl und R. Hönigswald, Jughans T., Cuxhaven 2004.
Gamba A. In principio era il fine. Ontologia e teleologia in Nicolai Hartmann, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2004.
Gehlaar S. S. Zur Präsenz der Philosophie: kleine Studien zu N. Hartmann, E. Husserl, und R. Hönigswald, Junghans, Cuxhaven 2004.
Harich W. Nicolai Hartmann - Größe und Grenzen. Versuch einer marxistischen Selbstverständigung, Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
Tsatsov D. The second ontologisation in Kantianism, Publishing house Valentin Trayanov, Sofia 2004 (in Bulgararian).

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Adeodato M. J. Filosofia do direito: uma crítica à verdade na ética e ne ciência (em contraposição à ontologia de Nicolai Hartmann), Saraiva, São Paolo 2005.
Corona J. H. La ética en la concepción de Nicolai Hartmann, y la templanza como virtud cardinal a la luz del Código de Etica del Poder Judicial de la Federación, Suprema Corta de Justicia de la Nación, México 2005.
Hansen F.-P. Vom wissenschaftlichen Erkennen. Aristoteles - Hegel - N. Hartmann, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
Kandirmaz N. Hartman potansiyeli için uyumlu durumlar, Diss., Akdeniz 2005.
Scognamiglio C. (e-book) La teoria ontologica di Nicolai Hartmann e la processualità del reale, <http://www.filosofia.it/>, 2005.

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Kopciuch L. Człowiek i historia u Nicolaia Hartmanna, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2007.
Ruttkowski W. The Main Differences Between Roman Ingarden’s and Nicolai Hartmann’s Strata-systems, Grin, München 2007.
Türker H. Moritz Geiger ve Nicolai Hartmann'da estetik değerin temellendirilmesi, Diss., Marmara 2007.

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Dahr B. Phenomenological Ehtics: an introduction, Ravat, Japuir 2008.
Gnoli C.,Scognamiglio C. Ontologia e organizzazione della conoscenza. Introduzione ai fondamenti teorici dell'indicizzazione semantica, Pensa multimedia, Lecce 2008.
Hansen F.-P. Nicolai Hartmann: Erneut Durchdacht, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
Mordka A. Ontologiczne podstawy estetyki: zarys koncepcji Nicolaia Hartmanna, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Rzeszów 2008.
Rohm S. Objektiver Geist und Ontologie der Sprache: Nicolai Hartmann und Hans-Georg Gadamer, LIT, Berlin, 2008.

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D’Anna G. Nicolai Hartmann. Dal conoscere all’essere, Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.

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Board:

Executive Council

Roberto Poli (University of Trento) - President

"I am working on three main topics, namely: 1)The category of person and the theory of values; 2) Ontology, in both its traditional, philosophical, acceptation and the new, computer-based acceptation;3) The category of the future and in particular the theory of anticipatory system.From my own perspective point, these three topics are mutually interrelated and are but different sides of a unique categorical framework. Unfortunately, however, mainstream wisdom assigns them to different disciplinary fields. In order to better counteract the unwelcome consequences of this highly unfortunate situation, I am starting to address the problem of developing a synthetic methodology, able to go beyond the limitations of the otherwise much needed analytic decompositions of the whole of reality into smaller and smaller fragments"

University of Trento
Department of Sociology and Social Research
41, Venice sq
38100 Trento (Italy)
roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it

http://www.robertopoli.it/

Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes, Springer.

Submissions: https://www.editorialmanager.com/axio/

Mitteleuropa Foundation: http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.org/

Carlo Scognamiglio (University of Rome La Sapienza) - Secretary and Tresaurer

Carlo Scognamiglio is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". In 2003 he worked on a research project on ontologies and information systems in CNR (National Research Council - Rome). In 2004 he obtained the qualification for teaching Philosophy and Human Sciences in High School and he still teaches these subjects. In 2010 he discussed his PhD thesis in Rome. He is the responsible of the Giovanni Gentile Foundation. His studies focus mainly on the thought of N. Hartmann, G. W. F. Hegel, B. Croce

Università di Roma La Sapienza

Facoltà di Filosofia

Fondazione G. Gentile

Via Carlo Fea, 2 - 00161 - Roma

carloscognamiglio@gmail.com

http://w3.uniroma1.it/episteme/sito-dip/eng/index.php?app=Department&nomeCat=PhDs&title=Carlo%20Scognamiglio&sezione=24&cat=50&view=4&id=181

Frederic Tremblay (SUNY at Buffalo) - Vice President

Frederic Tremblay is instructor and PhDcandidate in philosophy at the University at Buffalo, USA. He specializes inontology and metaphysics, with competencies in ancient Greek metaphysics,especially Aristotle, and twentieth century German metaphysics, especially N.Hartmann, as well as various topics in contemporary ontology narrowly understoodas a theory of categories.

Department of Philosophy

SUNY at BuffaloPark Hall, 117

Buffalo, NY 14260-4150

United States

ft4@buffalo.edu

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~ft4/

http://www.philosophy.buffalo.edu/
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Advisory Board

Eugen Kelly

Andreas Kinneging

Joachim Fischer

Carlos Matheus

If you'd like to become a member of the NHS write to:

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Purpose of the Nicolai Hartmann Society

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Founded in March 2009, the Nicolai Hartmann Society is a learned society bringing together international scholars interested in Hartmann’s philosophy. The Society’s purpose is to promote and foster the study of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, its place in the history of philosophy, and its relevance for contemporary issues and fields of knowledge. This temporary homepage will provide a platform to host contributions on Hartmann, keep an updated bibliography of works on his philosophy, and advertize relevant events.

Hartmann's works

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Über das Seinsproblem in der griechischen Philosophie vor Plato, Diss., Marburg 1908.

Des Proklus Diadochus philosophische Anfangsgründe der Mathematik, Töpelmann, Gießen 1909.

Platos Logik des Seins, Töpelmann, Gießen 1909.

Zur Methode der Philosophiegeschichte, «Kant-Studien», 1910, 15, 4, 459-485.
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(R.) Heimsoeths H., Die Methode der Erkenntnis bei Descartes und Leibniz, «Kant-Studien», 1912, 17, 289.
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Hermann Cohen zum 70. Geburtstag, «Frankfurter Zeitung», 4-7-1912.

Philosophische Grundfragen der Biologie, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1912.

Systematische Methode, «Logos», 1912, 3, 2, 121-163.

Systembildung und Idealismus, «Philosophische Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften», Berlin 1912, 1-23.

Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, in Gemeinschaft mit M. Geiger, A. Pfänder, A. Reinach, M. Scheler, hrsg. v. E. Husserl, I. Bd., 2 Teile, Niemeyer, Halle 1913.

Franz Brentanos Aristoteles und seine Weltanschauung und Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung des menschlichen Geistes, «Deutsche Literatur – Zeitung», 1914, 17, 1048-1050.

Über die Erkennbarkeit des Apriorischen, «Logos», 1914-15, 5, 3, 290-329.

Logische und ontologische Wirklichkeit, «Kant-Studien», 1915, 20, 1, 1-28.

Die Frage der Beweisbarkeit des Kausalgesetzes, «Kant-Studien», 1920, 24, 3, 261-290.

Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis, De Gruyter, Berlin-Leipzig 1921 [2. Aufl. 1925; 3. Aufl. 1941; 4. Aufl. 1949].
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Aristoteles und Hegel, «Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus», 1923, 3, pp. 1-36 [2. Aufl.: Strenger, Erfurt 1933].

Die Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus. I: Fichte, Schelling und die Romantik, De Gruyter, Berlin-Leipzig 1923.

Diesseits von Idealismus und Realismus, ein Beitrag zur Scheidung des Geschichtlichen und Übergeschichtlichen in der Kantischen Philosophie, «Kant-Studien», 1924, 29, 160-206.

Kants Metaphysik der Sitten und die Ethik unserer Tage, «Philosophisches Blätter des Kantgesellschaft», 1924.

Kant und die Philosophie unserer Tage, «Kölnische Zeitung», 1924.

Wie ist kritische Ontologie überhaupt möglich?, in Festschrift für Paul Natorp. Zum Siebzigsten Geburtstage von Schülern und Freunden Gewidmet, De Gruyter, Berlin-Leipzig 1924, 124-177.

Kategoriale Gesetze, «Philosophischer Anzeiger», 1925-26, 1, 201-266.

Ethik, De Gruyter, Berlin 1926 [2. Aufl. 1935; 3. Aufl. 1949].

Zum Thema: Philosophie und Internationale Beziehungen, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy Harvard Univ. Cambr. Mass. 1926, New York 1927, 386-389 [2. Aufl. (Philosophie und international Beziehungen) 1931, «Deutsche Grenzlande», 6, 386-389]

Über die Stellung der ästhetischen Werte im Reich der Werte überhaupt, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy Harvard Univ. Cambr. Mass. 1926, New York 1927, 428-436.

Max Scheler, «Kant-Studien», 1928, 33, 1-2, IX-XVI.

Die Philosophie der deutschen Idealismus. II: Hegel, De Gruyter, Berlin-Leipzig 1929.

Kategorien der Geschichte, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Philosophy, Oxford 1930, Oxford 1931, 24-30.

G.W.F. Hegel. Zum 100. Todestag am 14.11.1931, «Vossische Zeitung», 1931, 269, 6, 386-389.

Hegel et le problème de la dialectique du réel, tr. M. R.-L. Klee, «Revue de métaphisique et de morale», 1931, 38, 285-316.
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Systematische Philosophie in eigener Darstellung, in H. Schwarz (hrsg.v.) Deutsche systematische Philosophie nach ihren Gestaltern - Band I, Junker und Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1931, 283-340 [2. Aufl.: Systematische Philosophie in eigener Darstellung, Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1935].
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Das Problem der Realitätsgegebenheit, Pan-Verlagsgesellshcaft, Berlin 1931.

(R.) W. Seemann, Die logische Gesetze und das Sein, «Kant-Studien», 1933, 38, 227-32.

Majorität und öffentliche Meinung, «Natur und Geist», 1933, 1, 129-132.

Das Problem des geistigen Seins. Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der Geschichtsphilosophie und der Geisteswissenschaften, De Gruyter, Berlin 1933 [2. Aufl. 1949].

Antrittsrede, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1934, 98-99.

Sinngebung und Sinnerfüllung, «Blätter für Deutsche Philosophie», 1934, 8, 1-38.

Zur Grundlegung der Ontologie, De Gruyter, Berlin 1935 [2. Aufl. 1941; 3. Aufl. 1948].

Das Problem des Apriorismus in der Platonischen Philosophie, in Sitzungsberichten der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1935, 223-260.

Hegel und das Problem der Realdialektik, in «Blätter für Deutsche Philosophie», 1935, 9, 1-27.

Der philosophische Gedanke und seine Geschichte, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1936.

Das Wertproblem in der Philosophie der Gegenwart, in Actes du Congr. internat. de philos. à Prague, 1936, 975-981.

Bericht über die Kantausgabe, in Sitz.-Ber. der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1937, XXXI-XXXVII.

Gedächtnisrede auf Carl Stumpf, in Sitz.-Ber. der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße 1937, CXVI-CXX.

Der Megarische und der Aristotelische Möglichkeitsbegriff. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des ontologischen Modalitätsproblem, in Sitzungsberichten der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1937.

(R.) B. Schwarz, Der Irrtum in der Philosophie, «Blätter für deutsche Philosophie», 1936-37, 10, 342-344.

Heinrich Maiers Beitrag zum Problem der Kategorien, in Sitzungsberichten der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1938.

Möglichkeit und Wircklichkeit, De Gruyter, Berlin 1938 [2. Aufl. 1949].

Zeitlichkeit und Substantialität, «Blätter für deutsche Philosophie», 1938-39, 12,1-38.

Aristoteles und das Problem des Begriffs, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie, der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße 1939.

Der Aufbau der realen Welt. Grundriss der allgemeinen Kategorienlehre, De Gruyter, Berlin 1940 [2. Aufl. 1949].

Zur Lehre vom Eidos bei Platon und Aristoteles, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie, der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße 1941.

Una nueva ontologia en Alemania, «Ensayos y Estudios», 1941, 3, 3-50.

Neue Antropologie in Deutschland. Betrachtung zu Arnold Gehlens Werk: “Der Mensch. Seine Natur und seine Stellung in der Welt”, «Blätter für deutsche Philosophie», 1941-42, 15, 159-177.

Neue Wege der Ontologie, in N. Hartmann (hrsg. v.) Systematische Philosophie, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1943, 199-311 [2. Aufl. 1947; 3. Aufl. 1949].

Die Anfänge des Schichtungsgedankens in der alten Philosophie, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1943.

Naturphilosophie und Anthropologie, «Blätter für deutsche Philosophie», 1944, 18, 1-39.
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Die Wertdimensionen der Nikomachischen Ethik, in Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wißenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klaße, 1944.

Max Hartmann und die Philosophie, «Zeitschrift für Naturforschung», 1946, 1, 353-357.
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Leibniz als Metaphysiker, in Leibniz zu seinem 300. Geburtstag. Hrsg. v. E. Hischstetter, De Gruyter, Berlin 1946.

Neue Ontologie in Deutschland, «Felsefe Arkivi» , 1946, 1, 2-3, 1-50.

Die Wahreit ist das Ganze. Über “Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos”, «Allgemeine Hamburger Zeitung», 1948, 3, 3.

Heutige Aufgaben der theoretischen Philosophie, in «Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung», 1948

Ziele und Wege der Kategorialanalyse, «Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung», 1948, 2, 499-536.

Einleitung in die Philosophie, Gekürzte Nachschr. Einer Vorlesung im Sommersemester 1949 an der Universität Göttingen, Manuskript 1949 [2. Aufl. 1952].

German philosophy in the last ten years, (tr. by J. Ladd), «Mind», 1949, 58, 413-433.

Selbstdarstellung, in Z. Werner (hrsg. v.), Philosophen-Lexicon. Handwörterbuch der Philosophie nach Personen, Berlin 1949, 454-471.

Tareas actuales del análisis categorical, «Notas y Estudios de filos.», 1949, 1, 3-4, 215-259..

Das Ethos der Persönlichkeit, in Actas del Primer Congreso Nacional de Philosophia, Mendoza 1949, vol. I, Univ. Nacion. De Cuyo, 300-308.

Alte und neue Ontologie, in Actas del Primer Congreso Nacional de Philosophia, Mendoza 1949, vol. II, Univ. Nacion. De Cuyo, 782-787.

(R.) Heiβ R., Der Gang des Geistes, «Die Welt», 1950.

Philosophie der Natur. Abriss der speziellen Kategorienlehre, De Gruyter, Berlin 1950.

Teleologisches Denken, De Gruyter, Berlin 1951.

Klugheit und Weisheit, Diskussionsprotololle aus dem Sommersemester 1933, in H. Heimsoeth und R. Heiβ (hrsg.v.) Nicolai Hartmann. Der Denker und sein Werk, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1952.
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Ästhetik, De Gruyter, Berlin 1953.

Philosophische Gespräche, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1954.

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Kleinere Schriften I. Abhandlungen zur Systematischen Philosophie, De Gruyter, Berlin 1955.

1 Systematische Selbstdarstellung
2 Neue Ontologie in Deutschland
3 Ziele und Wege der Kategorialanalyse
4 Die Erkenntnis im Lichte der Ontologie
5 Zeitlichkeit und Substantialität
6 Naturphilosophie und Anthropologie
7 Sinngebung und Sinnerfüllung
8 Vom Wesen sittlicher Forderungen
9 Das Ethos des Persönlichkeit

Kleinere Schriften II. Abhandlungen zur Philosophie-Geschicht, De Gruyter, Berlin 1957.

1 Der philosophische Gedanke und seine Geschichte
2 Das Problem des Apriorismus in der Platonischen Philosophie
3 Das Megarische und der Aristotelische Möglichkeitsbegriff
4 Aristoteles und das Problem des Begriffs
5 Zur Lehre vom Eidos bei Platon und Aristoteles
6 Die Anfänge des Schichtungsgedankens in der alten Philosophie
7 Die Wertdimension der Nikomachischen Ethik
8 Aristoteles und Hegel
9 Leibniz als Metaphysiker
10 Diesseits von Idealismus und Realismus
11 Hegel und das Prolem der Realdialektik
12 Heinrich Maiers Beitrag zum Problem der Kategorien

Kleinere Schriften III. Vom Neukantismus zur Ontologie, De Gruyter, Berlin 1958.

Abhandlungen und Schriften aus den Jahren 1910-1923

1 Zur Method der Philosophiegeschichte
2 Systematische Methode
3 Systembildung und Idealismus
4 Philosophische Grundfragen der Biologie
5 Über die Erkennbarkeit des Apriorischen
6 Logische und ontologische Wirklichkeit
7 Die Frage der Beweisbarkeit des Kausalgesetzes
8 Wie ist kritische Ontologie überhaupt möglich?

Beiträge zu Kongress-Vorträgen 1926-49

9 Über die Stellung der ästhetischen Werte im reich der Werte überhaupt
10 Kategorien der Geschichte
11 Das Wertproblem in der Philosophie der Gegenwart
12 Alte und neue Ontologie
13 Thesen zur Logik (aus dem Philosophenlexikon)

Aufsätze zu Gedanktagen 1924-31

14 Kant und die Philosophie unserer Tage
15 Kants Metaphysik der Sitten und die Ethik unserer Tage
16 Max Scheler
17 Hegel

Anhang - Buchbesprechungen

18 Selbstanzeige in den Kantstudien zu: Platos Logik des Seins
19 Zum Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung
20 Zu Wilhelm Sesemann
21 Zu Balduin Schwarz
22 Zu Arnold Gehlen
23 Zu Robert Heiss
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Nicolai Hartmann und Heinz Heimsoeth im Briefwechsel, a cura di F. Hartmann e R. Heimsoeth, Bouvier, Bonn, 1978.

Provisional Statute of the Nicolai Hartmann Society

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Article I. Name

The name of the organization shall be the “Nicolai Hartmann Society.”

Article II. Definition

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The Nicolai Hartmann Society is an international civil society organization (also called non-governmental organization) the members of which join together in virtue of a common interest for the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann.

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Article III. Purpose

The purpose of the Nicolai Hartmann Society is to promote and foster the study of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, its place in the history of philosophy, and its relevance for contemporary issues and fields of knowledge.
The official language of the Society is English

Article IV. Membership and structure

The membership of the Society will originally consist of the Provisional Executive Council. Membership must be approved by the Executive Council, and shall continue as long as the member pays dues as determined in the Article X.

The Society’s structure shall be sub-divided as follows:
1. The General Assembly of the Members of the Society
2. The Scientific Committee
3. The Executive Council (3 members)

Article V. Officers

The Society will have a president, a vice-president, a treasurer (with secretarial functions). This group shall be known as the Executive Council.
The Executive Council shall meet at such times and places as it may determine or at special meetings called by the president. The Executive Council shall manage the webpage and every organizational aspect of the Society’s activities. And the Executive Council may conduct its business by e-mail.

Article VI. Elections

Section 1: Every member of the Executive Council shall be elected every four years.

Section 2: No president shall fill three terms in succession. Should vacancies occur, the Executive Council shall appoint replacements until the next election.

Section 3: Elections may be conducted in a public Assembly of the members, while executive decisions may be communicated by e-mail.

Section 4: Every member of the Society can vote for the Executive Council so long as he/she pays dues as determined in the Article X.

Section 5: The admission of new members into the Scientific Committee shall be approved by the current committee, by majority voting.

Section 6: Every membership to the Scientific Committee can be revoked by the Executive Council.

Section 7: Every membership to the Executive Council can be revoked by the General Assembly of the members of the Society.

Article VII. The General Assembly

The General Assembly of the members of the Society can elect the members of the Executive Council and revoke its members. The Assembly can also modify the Statute of the Society. The approval of every decision requires the presence of a majority of members. The General Assembly is convened every three years. The General assembly decides the Association’s general orientations.

Article VIII. Duties of Officers

Section 1: The president shall take on control and coordination functions in all scientific activities of the Society. He/she represents the Society and shall preside at all plenary sessions of the society and at all meetings of the Executive Council.

Section 2: The treasurer shall have general charge of the business of the society. The treasurer shall receive donations and dues and disburse the society’s funds acting on behalf of the Executive Council. He/she shall keep a written record of receipts and expenditures, and provide a report at the meetings of the General Assembly.

Section 3: The vice-president shall be vested with all the powers and perform all the duties of the president in case of the absence or disability of the president and may be assigned other duties by the Executive Council or by the president.

Section 4: The Executive Council shall assist in the operations of the affairs of the society in matters of program, policy, and public relations.

Article IX. Provisional norms

The first General Assembly is convoked by a “Provisional Committee,” which loses office on the occasion of the first General Assembly. The General Assembly approves or modifies the Statute of Nicolai Hartmann Society (after it is proposed by the “Provisional Committee”) and votes for an Executive Council.

Article X. Dues

The annual dues shall be of twenty euros, normally to be paid on January first, and covering the year following that date. Dues for students shall be ten euros. The due are meant to cover the costs of activities organized by the Executive Council. The Society may receive donations. The collection and disbursement of funds in connection with the financing of any activity sponsored in whole or in part by the Society shall be handled by the Executive Council, and applications for grants to finance any activity sponsored in whole or in part by the Society shall bear the signature of the President (except where the Vice-president is acting in its place, as in the case of serious illness).

Call for papers

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