Curriculum Vitae

Albert Newen

Personal Dates
Date of birth:1964
Family:married, two children

Education
1970-1983Primary school and high school "Eifelgymnasium" in Neuerburg
24.6.1983Leaving Certificate ("Abitur") with grade 1,0
1.9.1983 to 31.12.1984Social service at the "Heinrich-Hansjakob-Haus", Freiburg (Old people's home)
SoSe 1985-WS 1990M. A. studies at the "Albert-Ludwigs-Universität" in Freiburg and at the University of Bielefeld, majoring in philosophy; minors: psychology und history
1.10.1987-30.9.1988Research Assistant in the project "Cognitive Systems" at the department of General Psychology in Freiburg (Prof. Dr. Spada)
1989Student Assistant in the department of History (for Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen)
27.4.1990M.A. examination with the result "sehr gut"; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eike von Savigny
1990-1994Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the department of Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld (assistant with teaching duties)
6.07.1994Ph.D. thesis: "Context, Reference and Meaning. A theory of the meaning of singular terms" (awarded with the Dissertationspreis der Westfäl.-Lippischen Universitätsgesellschaft) supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eike von Savigny and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spohn
1.11.1994-31.03.1995Postdoctoral fellowship of the National German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: DFG)
SoSe 1995-SoSe 2002Assistant Professor at the philosophy department, University of Bonn
17. April 2002Habilitation thesis "Theories of Self-Consciousness" accepted by the department of Philosophy
19. July 2002Inaugural lecture
1.9.2002-30.4.2003Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Delmenhorst/Bremen)
May-July 2003Visting Fellow at the University of Oxford (St. Catherine's college)

Current Status
since 1.9.2003Head of the research project "Self-Consciousness and Concept Formation in Humans" at the University of Bonn (agreed funds of the VW-Foundation: 954.000 Euro for 5 years). Since 1.4.2004 the project continues at the University of Tübingen.
since 1.10.2003Appointment to a professorship for philosophy of language and philosophy of mind at the University of Tübingen: initially I acted as substitute professor, then at the beginning of 2004 I was officially appointed C3-Professor for Philosophy.

Scholarships, Research Visits, Awards
1.4.1987-30.4.1990Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
1.3.1992-30.4.1992Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Research visit in Paris at the CREA (Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée) supervisor: Prof. François Récanati
1.11.1994-31.03.1995 Postdoctoral scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Research Project concerning the logic and metaphysics of indexical attitudes
Jan. 1995- March 1995DFG-Exchange Scholarship: Research Visit in Paris at CREA (Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée); collaboration with Prof. François Récanati and Prof. Pierre Jacob
24.11.1995Ph.D. - Award of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft
1.02.1996-31.03.1996Postdoctoral scholarship of the DFG for the final period of the research project 'The Logic and Metaphysics of Indexical Attitudes'
10.03.1997Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis (research award of the German county Nordrhein- Westfalen) supporting a research project on self-consciousness (title: "What is self-consciousness? An exploration in philosophy and cognitive science"); prize money for the project: 67.900 DM
since June 2000Member of the executive committee oft the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP)
since 1.09.2002Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Delmenhorst/University of Bremen); Research Project: "The neuronal foundations of personal self-reference" (in cooperation with Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley, neuroscience)
May-July 2003Invitation as Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford
since September 2003Research Project of the VW-Foundation: "Self-Consciousness and Concept Formation in Humans" (Funds: 954.000 Euro for 5 years)

List of raised research funds

(without consideration of personal scholarships)
7.03.1994-9.03.1994International Conference of philosophers and linguists at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF)in Bielefeld, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. W. Künne, financed by the county Nordrhein-Westfalen (12.800 EUR)
10.03.1997Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis: research award of the German county Nordrhein- Westfalen for the project: "What is self-consciousness? An exploration in philosophy and cognitive science" price money for the project: 34.700 EUR
7.05.1998-9.05.1998Interdisciplinary conference "The self and its neurobiological foundations" in Bonn; in collaboration with Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley; funded by the VW-Foundation and donations of a company (10.300 EUR)
7.10.1998-10.10.1998 International philosophical conference on Gottlob Frege's Philosophy of Logic, Language and Cognition in Bonn; in collaboration with Prof. U. Nortmann and Prof. R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz; funded by the DFG (15.400 EUR)
in 1999Successful application for the appointment of Prof. John Perry (USA) as laureat of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, in collaboration with Prof. R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz (32.000 EUR)
8.07.1999-9.07.1999Philosophical Workshop on "Self and Self-Consciousness" in Bonn; in collaboration with R. Cuplinskas; Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (3.000 EUR)
since February 2000Annual grants for printing costs for the journal "Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse/Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy" for five years; in collaboration with Apl. Prof. Dr. Uwe Meixner; funded by the DFG (5 Jahre ... 5.000 Euro = 25.000 EUR)
3.04.2003-5.04.2003Interdisciplinary Conference on "Self-representation" at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst; in collaboration with Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley; funded by the DFG (12.500 Euro) plus 2.000 Euro from the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (14.500 EUR)
since January 2003Sub-project "Conceptual and Nonconceptual Knowledge" running until December 2004 within a research group at the University of Bonn, aiming to become part of a research group funded by the DFG (16.600 EUR)
Since 1.9.2003Research group of the VW-Foundation (954.000 EUR)
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