Pen name Pascal Mercier Movies Night Train to Lisbon Role Writer | Name Peter Bieri Nationality Swiss | |
Books Night Train to Lisbon, Perlmann's Silence, Lea Education Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin Similar People Bille August, Jeremy Irons, Martina Gedeck, Jack Huston, Wolfgang Prinz | ||
Peter bieri pascal mercier ich sehe wurde nicht als eigenschaft sondern als lebensart
Peter Bieri (born 23 June 1944), better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, is a Swiss writer and philosopher.
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- Peter bieri pascal mercier ich sehe wurde nicht als eigenschaft sondern als lebensart
- Academic background
- Work as an author
- Philosophical works
- Novels
- References
Academic background
Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg. He took his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1971 after studies with Dieter Henrich and Ernst Tugendhat on the philosophy of time, with reference to the work of J. M. E. McTaggart. After the conferral of his doctorate, Bieri followed an academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In 1983 he started work at the University of Bielefeld and later he worked as a scientific assistant at the Philosophical Seminar at University of Heidelberg.
Bieri co-founded the research unit for Cognition and Brain studies at the German Research Foundation. The focuses of his research were the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. From 1990 to 1993, he was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Marburg; from 1993 he taught philosophy at the Free University of Berlin while holding the chair of analytic philosophy, succeeding his mentor, Ernst Tugendhat.
In 2007 he retired early, disillusioned by academic life and condemning what he saw as the rise of managerialism ("Eine Diktatur der Geschäftigkeit") and decline in respect for academic work.
Work as an author
Under the pseudonym Pascal Mercier, Peter Bieri has published four novels to date. In 2006 he was awarded the Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz Prize.
Philosophical works
A full list of his philosophical works may be found on Wikipedia's German pages.