Carl Gethmann#
| Membership Number: | 385 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1979 Professor of philosophy, University of Essen
- 1978 Privatdozent, University of Konstanz
- 1972 Assistant professor, University Essen
- 1968 Research assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of logic
- Phenomenology
- Applied philosophy
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Director of the Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate (PhD hc) of the Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2006 Federal Cross of Merit
- 2006–2008 President of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie e.V.
- 2009 Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of the Leopoldina
- Member of National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- Member of the Bio-Ethics Commission of Rheinland Pfalz
