Raphael van Riel

Geisteswissenschaften / Philosophie

Address

Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen

Room

R12 V04 D21

Phone

0201-183-3022

E-Mail

raphael.vanriel@uni-due.de

Website

https://raphaelvanriel.wordpress.com/

Office hours

WS 2024/25: Termin-Anfrage und -Vergabe durch Fr. Monka: iris.monka@uni-due.de

Functions

Universitätsprofessor/in, Philosophie

Current lectures

2025 SS
- Philosophisches Kolloquium

Past lectures (max. 10)

Publications

C. Articles in Journals, Anthologies and Encyclopedias

Contributions without an anonymous review process are marked with “*”.

C38. R. van Riel (forthcoming): „Functions and Social Ontology“, in: Collins, S, Epstein, B. Haslanger, S. and Schmid, H.-B. (Hrsg.): The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

C37. *R. van Riel 2024: Hegemony and Cultural Domination, in: Th. Besch, H. Kincaid, T. Menon, R. van Riel (eds.): Cultural Domination: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge.

C36. *R. van Riel 2024: „Reduktionismus und Reduktive Erklärung“, in: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: Handbuch Philosophie des Geistes, Metzler.

C35. R. van Riel 2024: „Scientific Reduction“ in: E. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019 edition – revised and substantially expanded version of the versions from 2019 and 2014 (these still together with R.N. Van Gulick).

C34. R. van Riel 2022: „Free Will and Two Types of Determinism“, The Review of Metaphysics: A Philosophical Quarterly 76, 95-113.

C33. R. van Riel 2022: „Two Originals, One Artwork”, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59, 22, 119-134.

C32. R. van Riel 2022: „Representationalist Physicalism”, Theoria. DOI: 10.1111/theo.12410.

C31. R. van Riel 2022: „Weberian Ideal-Type Construction as Concept Replacement‘, European Journal of Philosophy. DOI:10.1111/ejop.12752.

C30. *R. van Riel 2021: „Ernest Nagel on Idealization in Science“, in: A. Tuboly & M. Neuber (eds.): Ernest Nagel. Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. 111-130, Springer.

C29. *R. van Riel 2020: „In Search of the Missing Mechanism“, in: R. Hufendiek et al. (eds.): Social Functions in Philosophy, 70-92, Routledge.

C28. R. van Riel 2019: „Lying beyond a conversational purpose. A critique of Stokke’s assertion based account of lying“, The Journal of Philosophy,116 (2):106-118.

C27. R. van Riel & R.N. Van Gulick 2019: „Scientific Reduction“ in: E. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019 edition – überarbeitete und substantiell erweiterte Fassung der Version von 2014.

C26. *H. Koch, R. van Riel 2019: „Gewalt – definitorische und normative Aspekte“, Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen, 41, I: 4-8.

C25. R. van Riel 2017: „Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Future-Dependent Beliefs“, The Southern Journal of Philosophy. DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12259

C24. *R. van Riel 2017: „Reduktion und Emergenz“, in: M. Schrenk (ed.), Handbuch Metaphysik, Metzler, 285-291.

C23. R. van Riel 2016: „Leibniz on Freedom, Divine Foreknowledge, and Necessitation without Dependence“, Studia Leibnitiana 48, 178-200.

C22. R. van Riel 2016: „Mental Disorder and the Indirect Construction of Social Facts “, Journal of Social Ontology. DOI: 10.1515/jso-2016-0008

C21. R. van Riel, 2016: „What is the Problem of Explanation and Modeling?“, Acta Analytica. DOI: 10.1007/S12136-016-0307-y

C20. R. van Riel, 2016: „Real Knowledge-Undermining Luck“, Logos & Episteme 7/3, 325-344.

C19. R. van Riel, 2016: „If you understand, you won't be lucky“, Grazer Philosophische Studien 93, 196-211.

C18. R. van Riel, 2016: „Constructionism in Psychiatry. From Social Causes to Psychiatric Explanation“, Frontiers in Psychiatry. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00057

C17. R. van Riel, 2016: „Enhancing Beyond What Ought to Be the Case. A Conceptual Clarification“, Bioethics 30/6, 384-388.

C16. R. van Riel, 2015: „The Content of Model-Based Information“, Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0728-y

C15. R. van Riel, 2015: „Modelle und Interpretationen. Grenzen eines allgemeinen Modellbegriffs.’ Kommentar zu Bernd Mahr's ‘Modelle und ihre Befragbarkeit“, Erwägen-Wissen-Ethik 26, 2015, 399-401.

C14. R. van Riel & R. N. Van Gulick: „Scientific Reduction“, in: E. Zalta (Hrsg.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014 edition: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reduction/.

C13. K. Reuter, L. Kirfel, R. van Riel, L. Barlassina, 2014: „The Good, the Bad, and the Timely: How Temporal Order and Moral Judgement Influence Causal Selection“, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01336

C12. R. van Riel, 2014: „The Nature of Types and Tokens: On the Metaphysical Commitments of Non-Reductive Physicalism“, Metaphysica 15/1, 219-237.

C11. R. van Riel, 2014: „Prophets Against Ockhamism. Or: Why the hard fact/soft fact distinction is irrelevant to the problem of foreknowledge“, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75 (2), 119-135.

C10. *R. van Riel, 2014: „McDowell’s Frege (und Evans)“, in: Lauer & Barth (Hrsg.) Die Philosophie John McDowells, S. 203-222, Paderborn: Mentis.

C9. R. van Riel, 2013: „Identity, Asymmetry, and the Relevance of Meanings for Models of Reduction“, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64/4, 747-761.

C8. R. van Riel, 2012: „Pains, Pills, and Properties. Functionalism and the First-Order/Second-Order Distinction“, Dialectica 66, 2012, 543-562.

C7. *R. van Riel, 2012: „Personal Identity“, Newen, A. & R. van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry. S. 109-128, Stanford/Paderborn: CSLI Publishing/Mentis, 2012.

C6. R. van Riel, 2011: „Cognitive Significance and Epistemic Intensions“, Logique et Analyse 54, 503-516.

C5. R. van Riel, 2011: „Nagelian Reduction beyond the Nagel Model“, Philosophy of Science, 78/3, 353-375.

C4. R. van Riel, 2011: „Identity-Based Reduction and Reductive Explanation“, Philosophia Naturalis, 47-48 (1-2), 185-221.

C3. F. Zenker, H. Gottschall, A. Newen, R. van Riel, G. Vosgerau, 2011: „Designing an Introductory Course to Elementary Symbolic Logic within the Blackboard E-Learning Environment“; P. Blackburn, H. von Ditmarsch, M. Manzano, F. Soler-Toscano (eds.): Proceedings of TICTTL 2011, Special Issue of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2011, 6680, 249-255.

C2. R. van Riel, 2008: „On how we perceive the social world. Criticizing Gallagher's view on direct perception and outlining an alternative“, Consciousness and Cognition 17/2, 544-552.

C1. *R. van Riel, 2008: „Theorie-Theorie, Simulationstheorie und der Ansatz der direkten Wahrnehmung – übertriebener Kognitivismus einerseits, naiver Naturalismus andererseits?“, Konferenzband der DG-Phil Konferenz 2008, (CD-ROM), 17 pages.

D. Proceedings, Online Reviews and smaller Articles

Contributions without an anonymous review process are marked with “*”.

D15. *T. Besch, H. Kincaid, T. Menon, R. van Riel 2024: „Untangling Cultural Domination“, in: Besch et al., Philosophical Perspectives on Cultural Domination, Routledge.

D.14. *R. van Riel 2023: „Ein Fundament in Lebenswelt und A Priori“, – Rezension von D. Hartmann: Neues System der Philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundriss“, Band 1, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.

D13. *R. van Riel 2021: „Erklärungen und Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse“, Unikate 2021, 28-37.

D12. R. van Riel 2020: „Gerson Reuter: Was wir grundlegend sind: Menschen unter anderen biologischen Einzeldingen“, Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur 8/4, 42-51.

D11. *R. Hufendiek, D. James, R. van Riel 2020: „Social Functions in Philosophy. An Introduction“, in: Hufendiek et al., Social Functions in Philosophy, 1-17, Routledge.

D10. *A.-M. Eder, I. Lawler, R. van Riel 2018: „Philosophical Methods Under Scrutiny: Introduction to the Special Issue Philosophical Methods“, in: Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02051-2

D9. *R. van Riel 2017: „Falsche Fragen, Verstehenslücken und philosophische Analysen“, Information Philosophie (Vortragsmanuskript, online: last accessed: 12.5.2017: http://www.information-philosophie.de/?a=1&t=8512&n=2&y=5&c=29).

D8. *M. Eronen, R. van Riel 2014: „Understanding through modeling: The explanatory power of inadequate representation“, Synthese (online first). DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0973-0

D7. *R. van Riel, J. Schildmann 2014: “Enhancement der Moral. Zur Einführung“, in: R. van Riel, E. Di Nucci, J. Schildmann (Hrsg.), Moralisches Enhancement, S. 9-17, Paderborn: Mentis.

D6. R. van Riel 2013: „Michael Weisberg: Simulation and Similarity. Using Models to Understand the World. Oxford: OUP 2013“. Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur 1, 60-70.

D5. *A. Newen, R. van Riel, 2012: „Speaking and Thinking About the Self“, in: Newen, A. & R. van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry. S. 1-10, Stanford/Paderborn: CSLI Publishing/Mentis.

D4. R. van Riel 2015: Jason Stanley; „How Propaganda Works“, in: Moral Theory and Ethical Practice (online first): DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9667-4.

D3. *H. Wohlrapp, R. van Riel, 2011: „Schluss“, in: P. Kolmer und A. Wildfeuer (eds.); Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe, Karl Alber, 1919-1934.

D2. *R. van Riel 2009: „David Woodruff Smith, Amie L. Thomasson (Hrsg.): Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind“, in: Philosophique, 36/1, 257–259 (French).

D1. *R. van Riel 2008: Wohlrapp, Harald: „Der Begriff des Arguments. Über die Beziehung zwischen Wissen, Forschen, Glauben, Subjektivität und Vernunft“, in: Universitas, http://www.heidelberger-lese-zeiten-verlag.de/archiv/online-archiv/rezensionwohlrappvanriel.pdf, last accessed: 15.2016.

E. Miscellania

All contributions were accepted without an anonymous review process.

E6. A.-M. Eder, I. Lawler, R. van Riel 2017: „Philosophical Methods“, in: The Reasoner, 1/10.

E5. R. van Riel, A. Newen 2009: „Reductionism, Explanation, and Metaphors in the Philosophy of Mind“, in: The Reasoner, 3/10, 9-10.

E4. R. van Riel 2009: „Naxaliten (Indien)“, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2006. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 55-60.

E3. R. van Riel 2008: „Naxaliten (Indien)“, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2005. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 56-60.

E2. R. van Riel 2008:, „Englisch in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft?“, in: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 1, 183-186.

E1. R. van Riel 2005: „Naxaliten (Indien)“, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2004. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, 55-60.

Education

11.2010

Doktor phil., Ruhr-University Bochum. Supervisors: Prof. Albert Newen (Bochum) und Prof. Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg/Munich).

2007-2010

Postgraduate Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and at TiLPS , Netherlands.

12.2006

Magister Artium (Philosophy, Minors: Political Sciences and Social Psychology), University of Hamburg. Supervisors: Prof. Wolfgang Künne and Prof. Ulrich Gähde.

2000-2006

Studied Philosophy, Political Science and Social Psychology at the University of Hamburg and Sorbonne, Paris.

Career

10.23-3.2024	Fellow at the KHK/Center for Global Cooperation Research.
10.2023	Visiting Fellow at Cape Town University, (invitation by Prof. Harold Kincaid).
Since 7.2022	Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Spring 2020	Visiting Professor for History of Philosophy at FU-Berlin.
10.2018-8.2022	Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Rat auf Lebenszeit), University of Duisburg-Essen.
Spring 2018	Visiting scholar at Wuhan University (China).
2016	Temporary Lecturer at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
2015-2016	Acting Chair Theoretical Philosophy, Philipps-University Marburg.
2/3.2014	Visiting Scholar, LOGOS Group, Barcelona.
8.2013-10.2018	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Associate Professor/Principal Investigator); Institute for Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen – Principal Investigator in the project “A Study in Explanatory Power” (Details: See below).
2012-2013	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Associate Professor); Institute for Philosophy, University of Bochum – Project “A Study in Explanatory Power” (Details: See below).
2/3.2012	Visiting Scholar, LOGOS Group, Barcelona.
2010-2012	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Assistant Professor), Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum.
2-6.2009	Visiting Fellow, Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (NL).
2007-2010	Reasearch Assistant at the Instituts for Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum.

Workshop and Conference Organization

2023	Workshop: Varieties of Contestation, Duisburg-Essen.
2022	Workshop: Cultural Domination, Hybrid, together with Thomas Besch (Wuhan), Tarun Menon (Bengaluru), and Harold Kincaid (Cape Town).
2019	Workshop: Foundations in Social Science, 1.20219, Duisburg-Essen (together with Heiner Koch)
2018	Workshop: ‘The Nature and Significance of Social Kinds’, Essen (together with Daniel James, Andreas Niederberger, Neil Roughley).
2017	Workshop: ‘The Varieties of Knowing How’, Essen (together with Insa Lawler)
2017	Workshop: ‘The Metaphysics of Social Functions’, Essen KWI (together with Dr. Miguel Hoeltje)
2016	Workshop: ‘Philosophical Methods’, Essen KWI (together with Dr. Anna-Maria Eder and Insa Lawler)
2015	Colloquim ‘Varieties of Explanation’, Colloquium at the GAP.9 (together with Dr. Miguel Hoeltje).
2015	‘Issues in Applied Analytic Philosophy’, Workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, with Prof. Sally Haslanger (MIT), Prof. Mari Mikkola (Humboldt Universität), Prof. Dan Lopez de Sa (Barcelona), Prof. Esa Diez-Leon (Barcelona) (together with Dr. Miguel Hoeltje)
2014	‘Norms of Reasoning’, Bochum (together with Anna-Maria Eder and Dr. Peter Brössel)
2014	‘Explanatory Power III: Topics in Explanation, Dependence, and Understanding’, Workshop at the University Duisburg-Essen (together with Miguel Hoeltje and Insa Lawler).
2013	‘Explanatory Power II: Understanding Through Modeling’, Workshop at the Ruhr-University Bochum (together with Markus Eronen).
2012	‘Dependence in Social Ontology’, Workshop at the Humboldt University Berlin (together with Miguel Hoeltje, Daniel James and Heiner Koch).
2012	‘Neuro-enhancement and its moral implications’, Workshop at the Ruhr-University Bochum (together with post-docs from the Global Young Faculty Network).
2012	‘Explanatory Power I’, Workshop at the Ruhr-University Bochum (together with Markus Eronen).
2009	‘Reductionism, Explanation and Metaphors in the Philosophy of Mind’, Satellite Workshop at the GAP7, Bremen (together with Albert Newen).
2009	‘Second European Graduate School’, Bochum, (together with Albert Newen).
2007/2008	Lecture Series “Philosophie und Kognition” (together with Albert Newen and Christoph Michel).

Theoretical Philosophy

At the Institute of Philosophy

Raphael van Riel

Prof. Dr. Raphael van Riel