Dr. Christoph Durt

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Dozent

Philosophie & Wissenschaftstheorie

Studium der Philosophie, Psychologie, Computerlinguistik und Interkulturellen Kommunikation in Heidelberg, Tucson, München, MA 2005 in München. PhD Studium an der University of California in Santa Cruz und Berkeley. PhD zu „The Paradox of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction and Husserl’s Genealogy of the Mathematization of Nature“ in Santa Cruz 2012. Promotion betreut von Julian Nida-Rümelin, David Hoy, Hans Sluga und Abraham Stone. Danach Gastdozent in Berkeley, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Principle Investigator in Heidelberg, Wien, Pullach (Parmenides-Stiftung) und Freiburg. Universitäre Lehre in München, Santa Cruz (Gewinn einer Lehrauszeichnung), Berkeley, Wien und Online. Leiter der Fokusgruppe Grundlagen der Digitalitätsphilosophie in der AG Digitale Philosophie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie (DGPhil). Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf seiner persönlichen Website.

 

 

  • Philosophie der KI und Digitalisierung
  • Theoretische Philosophie
  • Phänomenologie
  • Geschichte der Philosophie (bes. Antike, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein)

Durt, Christoph. 2024. “Die Digitalisierung der Lebenswelt: Von der Mathematisierung der Natur zur intelligenten Manipulation des menschlichen Sinn- und Erlebenshorizontes.” In Digitale Lebenswelt – Digitales Selbst. Digitale Gemeinschaft. Digitale Spiele, Hrsg. Maria Schwartz, Meike Neuhaus, und Samuel Ulbricht. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2024.

Durt, Christoph. 2023. „Subjectivity and World:  The Roots of the Crisis in Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology“. In Crisis and Lifeworld: New Phenomenological Perspectives, herausgegeben von Hernán Gabriel Inverso und Alexander Schnell, 1st edition. Phänomenologie 35. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2023.

Durt, Christoph. “The Digital Transformation of Human Orientation: An Inquiry into the Dawn of a New Era.” Winner of the $10,000 Essay Prize. In: Reinhard G. Mueller and Werner Stegmaier (eds): How Does the Digitization of Our World Change Our Orientation? Five Essays (HFPO Prize Competition 2019-2021). Nashville: Orientations Press, 2022. See More

Durt, Christoph. “Artificial Intelligence and its Integration into the Human Lifeworld.” The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Wolfram Burkhard, Philipp Kellmeyer, Oliver Müller, and Silja Vöneky, 2022.

Durt, Christoph. “The Embodied Self and the Paradox of Subjectivity.” Husserl Studies, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-019-09256-4. Download PDF

Durt, Christoph. “The Computation of Bodily, Embodied, and Virtual Reality: Winner of the Essay Prize ‘What Can Corporality as a Constitutive Condition of Experience (Still) Mean in the Digital Age?’” Phänomenologische Forschungen 2020, no. 1 (2020). Download PDF

Durt, Christoph. “From Calculus to Language Game: The Challenge of Cognitive Technology.” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 22, no. 3 (2018): 425–46, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne2018122091. Download PDF

Durt, Christoph. “Consciousness, Culture, and Significance.” In Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World, 

edited by Christoph Durt, Thomas Fuchs, and Christian Tewes. (Cambridge, MA, London, England: MIT Press, 2017). dx.doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.41. 

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Durt, Christoph, Thomas Fuchs, and Christian Tewes. Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World. (Cambridge, MA, London, England: MIT Press, 2017).

Durt, Christoph. “Shared Intentional Engagement through Language and Phenomenal Experience.” Frontiers in Psychology and Cognitive Science 5 (2014):1016. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01016. Download PDF

Durt, Christoph. The Paradox of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction and Husserl’s Genealogy of the Mathematization of Nature. Dissertation, December 2012. Download PDF

  • 2005–8 Dissertation Fellowship, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
  • 2006–10 Fees and Tuition fellowships for in-state and non-resident tuition at the UCSC
  • 2006–7 Humanities Fellowship, UCSC
  • 2009–10 Humanities Fellowship, UCSC
  • 2011 Regents Fellowship, UCSC
  • 2011–12 UCSC Philosophy Department, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
  • 2013–14 EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie TESIS Experienced Researcher fellowship
  • 2015–16 DFG fellowship in the excellence initiative Cultural Dynamics in Globalised Worlds
  • 2016–18 EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Researcher fellowship
  • 2019 Essay-prize of the Phänomenologische Forschungen for the Essay “The Computation of Bodily, Embodied, and Virtual Reality”
  • 2020–21 Volkswagenstiftung research project “AI and its Integration into the World of Human Meaning and Experience”
  • 2021–23 Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND project “A Novel Approach to Artificial Intelligence that Builds on Phenomenological Philosophy”
  • 2022 Essay-prize of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation for the Essay “The Digital Transformation of Human Orientation: An Inquiry into the Dawn of a New Era”