Rudolf Makkreel - Wikipedia Rudolf Makkreel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Rudolf Adam Makkreel is an American philosopher and Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University.[1] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Works 4 References 5 External links Early life[edit] Rudolf Makkreel was born in 1939 in Antwerp, Belgium and grew up in The Hague in the Netherlands. He immigrated to the USA in 1951 and received his BA and PhD from Columbia University. Career[edit] He taught at the University of California, San Diego until 1973 and at Emory University until 2013. He was the Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy from 1983 to 1998 and then President of its Board of Directors until 2018. Makkreel's work is concentrated on hermeneutics and aesthetics by developing ideas from the German philosophers Wilhelm Dilthey and Immanuel Kant. Makkreel has focused on the roles of the imagination, judgment, and interpretation within Kant's critical system. The implications of Kant's conception of reflective judgment for hermeneutics and for the theory of the human sciences are also central to Makkreel's writings. Makkreel has shown some important parallels between Kant's determinant-reflective judgment distinction and Dilthey's explanation-understanding distinction. Neither distinction is merely oppositional.[2] Makkreel has argued that reflective judgments can provide the framework for determinant judgments and that the understanding of contextual socio-cultural systems in the human sciences leaves room for delimited lawful historical explanations. Some other themes that pervade Makkreel's writings include the difference between orientational and foundational principles as well as the relation between reflexive awareness and reflective consciousness. Our inner experience is not based on inner perception or acts of ocular introspection but on a directly felt reflexive self-awareness that coexists with outer experience. This reflexive awareness can orient the more mediated reflective consciousness of the world made possible by outer experience. Makkreel regards human experience as a complex of 1) what is aesthetically and medially assimilated from our surroundings, 2) how this is cognitively acquired through conceptualization, and 3) how this is reflectively appropriated into an overall perspective on the world. When disputes arise about meaning claims about the world, hermeneutics must diagnose at what level of experience a misunderstanding has arisen. Works[edit] Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies, Princeton University Press, 1975, 1992. Imagination and Interpretation in Kant, University of Chicago Press, 1990 "Reflection, Reflective Judgment and Aesthetic Exemplarity' in "Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy". Ed. Rebecca Kukla. Cambridge, 2006. Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics, University of Chicago Press, 2015 Makkreel is also the editor with Frithjof Rodi of Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works (Princeton University Press). Volume I: Introduction to the Human Sciences, Princeton University Press, 1989. Volume II: Understanding the Human World,Princeton University Press, 2010. Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences, Princeton University Press, 2002. Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History, Princeton University Press, 1996. Volume V: Poetry and Experience, Princeton University Press,1985. Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2019. References[edit] ^ Makkreel, R.A. "Rudolf A. Makkreel" ^ Makkreel, R. A. (1992) Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies, Princeton University Press, pp. 218-262. External links[edit] Makkreel's home page at Emory Makkreel's CV at Emory Authority control BNF: cb121937004 (data) GND: 1108557104 ISNI: 0000 0001 2147 5134 LCCN: n84173419 NTA: 075100886 PLWABN: 9810654510005606 SUDOC: 030542898 VIAF: 109874995 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n84173419 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Makkreel&oldid=972676353" Categories: Hermeneutists Continental philosophers 1939 births Living people Columbia University alumni Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 08:59 (UTC). 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