Lehrstuhl für Ethik/Ästhetik
Allgemeines

Dr. Gilad Nir
Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Ethik/Ästhetik
Vertretung für Frau Lena Ljucovic
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Haus: 11, Raum: 2.13
consulting hours
Sprechzeiten nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Philosophie der Sprache, der Logik und des Geistes
- Transformationen und Begriffliche Revolutionen
- Philosophie und Literatur
- Geschichte der Analytischen Philosophie
- Wittgenstein
- Heidegger
Forschungsprojekt
Das Rätsel der Transformation
CV
2023 - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Ethik/Ästhetik, Universität Potsdam
2021-23 — Gastwissenschaftler (Stipendiat der Minerva Stiftung), Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam
2020-21 — Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Philosophie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Arbeitsbereich Theoretische Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Logik
2017-20 — Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig, Humboldt-Professur für Theoretische Philosophie
2009-17 — Promotion, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Dissertation: Rules of Inference — A Study in Early Analytic Philosophy
2006-08 — M.A., Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude. These: Heidegger and the Analogy of Being
2005-06 — Gaststudent, Institut für Philosophie, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg
2002-05 — B.A., Department of Sociology and Anthropology & The Honors Program in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude
Herausgeberschaft
Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations. Co-edited with James Conant. Routledge, 2025.
Artikel
“Nonsense: A Riddle Without Solutions” in Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations, ed. by James Conant and Gilad Nir.
Routledge. 2025.
• “Understanding Misunderstanding”, in Intercultural Understanding After Wittgenstein, ed. by Chon Tejedor, Carla Carmona and David Pérez Chico. Anthem Press. 2023.
• “Truth and the Limits of Ethical Thought: Reading Wittgenstein with Diamond” in Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein. Ed. by Jens Pier. Routledge. 2022.
• “Wittgenstein’s Reductio,” Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy Vol. 10, No.3, 2022.
"'In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic': Wittgenstein, Psychologism and the Question of the Normativity of Logic", in: Disputatio 10:18 (2021): One Hundred Years Thinking the Tractatus , im Erscheinen.
"Toward a Resolute Reading of Being and Time: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Dilemma between Inconsistency and Ineffability", in: The Southern Journal of Philosophy, im Erscheinen.
"Are Rules of Inference Superfluous? Wittgenstein vs. Frege and Russell", in: Teorema XL: 2 (2021) S. 45-61.
"The Tractatus and the Riddles of Philosophy", in: Philosophical Investigations 44:1 (2021), S. 19-42.
"Heidegger on the Unity of Metaphysics and the Method of Being and Time", in: The Review of Metaphysics 74:3 (2021), S. 361-396.
Rezensionen
"Rezension zu Andrea Iacona, Logical Form: Between Logic and Natural Language, Springer, 2018", in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 16.07.2018
Vorträge
• "Wittgenstein über die Lösung des Rätsels des Lebens", Deutsche Kongress für Philosophie, Münster, 09.2024
• “Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Verificationism,” SSHAP (Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy), Berlin 7.2023
• 9.2021 “Logik und Ontologie bei Wittgenstein und Heidegger” XXV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie.
"'In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic': Wittgenstein, the Normativity of Logic, and Anti-Psychologism", Kolloquium, Université Paris Sorbonne 1, 10|2021
"Wittgenstein on Inference and the Normativity of Logic", Kolloquium, University of Haifa, 04|2021
"Wittgenstein on Inference, Understanding and Omniscience", Collegium Philosophicum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 11|2020
"Ethical Truth, Ethical Nonsense and Ethical Transformation", Intercultural Understanding: Wittgensteinian Approaches at the Crossroads of Epistemology and Ethics, University of Valencia, 01|2020
"The Riddles of Transformation and the Nature of Philosophical Truth", The Wittgenstein Workshop, New School for Social Research, New York, 10|2019
"The Tractatus and the Riddles of Philosophy", 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 08|2019
"Wittgenstein’s Third-Man", 1918-2018: Problems From Russell & Wittgenstein, University of Bordeaux, 12|2018
"Heidegger’s Double Method", 57th SPEP conference (Society for the Study of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), University of Pennsylvania, 10|2018
"Russell on Inference", GAP10: The 10th Annual Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Köln, 09|2018
"The Tractarian Account of Inference", 41st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 08|2018
"Ryle on Inference", Jena Summer Symposium in Philosophy: Mental Capacities, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07|2018
"The Tractarian Account of Inference", 2nd Tilburg History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Tilburg University, 07|2018
"Russell on Inference", APA Central, Group Session of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Chicago, 02|2018
"Wittgenstein on Logical Form", Philosophisches Kolloquium, Technische Universität Dresden, 01|2018
"The Tractarian Rejection of Rules", SSHAP 2017: The Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy 6th AnnualConference, Calgary, 05|2017
Stipendien und Preise
2021-23 — Forschungsstipendium der Minerva Stiftung
2020 — Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Förderung einer internationalen wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen: Inference/Schlussfolgern, Universität Leipzig
2019 — Pre-Doc Mentorship Award 2020, Universität Leipzig
2015-16 — Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
2015-16 — Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago
2015 — Karen Dinal Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Chicago Writing Program
2015 — Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship Award, University of Chicago (declined in order to take up a dissertation completion fellowship)
2008 — Hebrew University Rector’s Prize for Outstanding M.A. students
2008 — Hebrew University Dean of Humanities Prize for Outstanding M.A. students
2008 — Hebrew University Philosophy Department, Harold Abeles prize for M.A. students
Tagungen
Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics Revisited, Universität Potsdam, Juni 2025
Inference/Schlussfolgern, Universität Leipzig, zusammen mit E. Marcus (Auburn University), gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 06|2022
Humboldt Conversations in Philosophy, Kolloquium Reihe, Universität Leipzig, 04-06|2021
Cavell’s Claim of Reason, Universität Leipzig, zusammen mit J. Sudau, 10|2019
Wittgenstein’s Legacy, Universität Leipzig, 07|2019
Logic and Ethics: The Philosophy of Cora Diamond, Universität Leipzig, zusammen mit J. Conant, 10|2018
2nd Graduate Student Conference of the Göttingen-Chicago-Leipzig Network, Universität Göttingen, zusammen mit H. Steinfath und J. Conant, 06|2018
Goethe and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, zusammen mit E. Friedlander und J. Conant, 12|2017
The Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, 2013-15
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