Dr. Tobias Endres

» Academic Employment

• Summer 2024 to Fall 25/26:
  Feodor Lynen Research Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• since 11/2018:
  Lecturer and Post-Doc Researcher at the Philosophy Institute of Technische Universität Braunschweig (Unit: Prof. Dr. Nicole C. Karafyllis).
• 2015-2016:
  Adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, History of Literature, Science, and Technology of the Technical University of Berlin.

» Areas of Specialization/Competence

• AOS:
  Philosophy of Perception, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Culture, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Life (part. Cassirer and Bergson)
• AOC:
  German Idealism, Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, History of Philosophy (19th & 20th Century).

» Education

• Dr. phil.
  Technical University of Berlin, Philosophy.
  Title of the Dissertation: Ernst Cassirer's Phenomenology of Perception, 279 pp.
  Thesis defense: 28th of September 2018.
  
  Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Günter Abel, Prof. Dr. Martina Plümacher, Prof. Dr. Christian Möckel.
• M.A.
  University of Bonn, Philosophy (major), modern German Literature, Psychology, February 2009.
  Master's Thesis on Nietzsche was awarded with the Immanuel Kant-Prize of the University of Bonn.
  Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hogrebe, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Pieper.

» Publications

Monographs:

• Endres, Tobias: Nietzsche als Hermeneut. Hamburg: Meiner (forthcoming 2024)
• Endres, Tobias: Ernst Cassirer's Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung, Hamburg: Meiner 2020, 279 pp.

Editorships:

• Endres, Tobias/Müller, Ralf/Schneider, Domenico (2024) (Hg.): Kyoto in Davos. Intercultural Readings of the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate, Leiden: Brill (in press, forthcoming 21 Dec 2023).

• Endres, Tobias (ed.) (2023): Nothing less than the whole Cassirer. Symposium on Samantha Matherne’s Cassirer, organised and prepared for publication by Tobias Endres (Braunschweig), in: British Journal for the History of Philosophy, AOP, 51 S., publ. online 11 Sept. 2023, DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2238780.

• Endres, Tobias/Favuzzi, Pellegrino/Klattenhoff, Timo (Eds.): Philosophie der Kultur- und Wissensformen. Ernst Cassirer neu lesen, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2016, 316 pp.
  
  For journal articles, my book reviews and reviews of my book please switch to the Website in German.

» Awards, Fellowships, Invitations & Grants

• 03/2017:
  Lecture tour to the Central Division Meeting 2017 of the American Philosophical Association in Kansas City (Missouri) following an invitation of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft (Milwaukee), funded by TU Berlin.
• 09/2015:
  Marsilius Summer Academy 2015 on the Anthropology of Perception, organized by Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs et al., International Academic Forum Heidelberg.
• 2011-2014:
  PhD scholarship of Evangelischen Studienwerks Villigst e.V.
• 06/2010:
  First International Summer School in German Philosophy, organized by Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel, International Centre for Philosophy NRW, Bonn.
• 07/2009:
  Immanuel Kant-Prize of the University of Bonn for the best master's thesis of the academic year  2008/9, includes prize money of 1500,- €.

» Teaching Experience (selection)

• 2021-2023: undergraduate and graduate courses on Henri Bergson, Epistemology and Philosophy of Life
• Spring 2021: Aristotle: Organon
• Spring 2019: Introduction to Epistemology, TU Braunschweig.
• Fall 2018/19: Frege's Semantic Theory, TU Braunschweig.
• Spring 2016: Frege's Semantic Theory, TU Berlin.
• Fall 2015/16: Introduction to Philosophy of Culture, TU Berlin.

» Presentations at conferences (selection)

• 04.06.19:
  Between Autonomy and Hierarchy – Resolving a well-know Dilemma by resorting to the Theory of Perception, Presentation at the Summer School in Neo-Kantian Philosophy – Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Culture, Hong Kong.
• 05.10.18:
  Wahrnehmung und Objektivität bei Kant und Cassirer, Presentation at the Symposion „Cassirer und Kant“ of the International Ernst Cassirer-Society, Hamburg.
• 08.09.18:
  Symbol, Form, Kultur – Zum Geistbegriff im Werke Ernst Cassirers, Presentation at the International Symposium 2018 of the Swiss Philosophical Society on the Topic „Was ist Geist?“, Basel.
• 19.04.18:
  Ernst Cassirer’s influence on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, Presentation at the international conference Ernst Cassirer’s Post-War Afterlife, Paris.
• 03.03.17:
  The distinction between the active and passive expressive function in Cassirer’s late work and its connection to moral perception, Presentation for the International Ernst-Cassirer-Society at the APA Central Division Meeting 2017, Kansas City (Missouri).
• 15.09.15:
  Ernst Cassirer und die Frage nach dem Übergang von der Phonetik zur Semantik, Response to Jürgen Trabant at the Marsilius-Summer Academy on the subject Anthropologie der Wahrnehmung, Heidelberg.
• 29.09.14:
  Cassirers Wahrnehmungs- und Repräsentationstheorie, Presentation in the section Epistemology at the  XXIII. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster.
• 29.07.14:
  Die Philosophie der symbolischen Formen als Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung lesen, Presentation at the workshop „Cassirer neu lesen?“, Berlin.
• 07.02.12:
  Wahrnehmung bei Kant mit Blick auf McDowell, Presentation at the research colloquium of the Institute for Philosophy of TU Berlin.
• 28.04.10:
  Nietzsches Begriff der Wahrheit, Presentation at the Berliner Nietzsche-Colloquium (BNC) of TU Berlin.

» Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie e.V.
• Internationale Ernst Cassirer-Gesellschaft
• American Philosophical Association
• Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.