Udo Thiel

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Udo Thiel
Born1954
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions University of Graz
Doctoral advisor Hans Wagner
Main interests
history of philosophy

Udo Thiel (born 19 September 1954) is a German Philosopher and Professor i. R. at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria. He studied philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Bonn and Oxford. In 1982 he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Hans Wagner at the University of Bonn. Prior to his appointment as professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Graz in 2009, he held positions at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in Canberra. Since November 2022 he has been a Visitor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Locke Studies . In 2013 Udo Thiel was elected a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). In 2014 he received the Styrian government Award (Forschungspreis) for his research in early modern philosophy. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Selected publications

Festschrift

Rudolf Meer, Giuseppe Motta and Gideon Stiening (eds.), Konzepte der Einbildungskraft in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Udo Thiel. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2019, XX, 509 pp.

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