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Dr. Jonas Pfister

Assistant at the Department of Philosophy
Lecturer in Philosophy

Biographical Notice

Jonas Pfister, born 1977 in Zürich, studied philosophy and history in Berne and Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of Berne. The thesis entitled "The Metaphysics and epistemology of Meaning" - in large parts a construction of Grice’s philosophy of language - has been published by Ontos in 2007. He has been teaching assistant at the University of Berne, associate member of the research group meaning.ch and 2008-09 PostDoc researcher at the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) in Oslo. He joined the team as a research assistant in 2011.

Main Research Areas

  • Philosophy of Language: theories of meaning, implicatures, linguistic acts, language and communication
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Didactics of Philosophy

Publications

  1. Books
  2. Journal Articles

Books

  • (Hg.) Klassische Texte der Philosophie. Ein Lesebuch, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2011.

  • Philosophie. Ein Lehrbuch, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006. (2. erweiterte Auflage 2011).

  • Fachdidaktik Philosophie, Bern/Stuttgart: Haupt/UTB, 2010.
  • The Metaphysics and the Epistemology of Meaning, Heusenstamm: Ontos, 2007.
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Journal Articles

  • „Feminismus, Sprache und feministische Sprachphilosophie“, in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 1, 2011, 48-73.

  • "Allemagne: Les approches didactiques de la philosophie", in: Diotime. Revue internationale de didactique de la philosophie 47, 2011.

  • “On the Role of the History of Philosophy in Teaching Philosophy”, in: APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 2, 2010, 7-9.
  • “Infant Communication: A Problem for Relevance Theory?“, in: International Review of Pragmatics 2:1, 2010, 3-20.
  • “Communicative Signs Meaning Naturally“, in: Pragmatics & Cognition 19:1, 2010, 40-67.
  • “Is there a Need for a Maxim of Politeness?“, in: Journal of Pragmatics 42:5, 2010, 1266-1282.
  • „Les Olympiades de philosophie dans l’enseignement“, in: Diotime. Revue internationale de didactique de la philosophie 41, 2009.
  • „Die Sprachphilosophie von Paul Grice“, in: Information Philosophie 3, 2008, 66-75.

  • „La philosophie dans l’enseignement secondaire en Suisse", in: Côté Philo 7, 2005, 33-36.

  • „Sind Sprachkonventionen Regelmäßigkeiten?“, in: Kriterion 17, 2003, 7-14.
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