A. Monographs

A.2 (with Gottfried Vosgerau) Aussagen und Prädikatenlogik. Eine Einführung. Metzler 2018.

A.1 The Concept of Reduction, Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.

B. Edited Volumes

B8. (in print) Th. Besch, H. Kincaid, T. Menon, R. van Riel: Volume on Cultural Domination, under contract with Routledge.

B7. R. Hufendiek, D. James, R. van Riel: Social Functions in Philosophy: Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives, Routledge: 2020.

B6. A.-M. Eder, I. Lawler, R. van Riel (eds.): ‘Philosophical Methods’, Synthese (Special Issue) 2017.

B5. M. Eronen, R. van Riel (eds.): ‘Understanding Through Modeling’, Synthese (Special Issue) 2015.

B4. R. van Riel, E. Di Nucci, J. Schildmann (eds.): Moralisches Enhancement, Mentis 2015.

B3. A. Newen, R. van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry, CSLI publ./Mentis, 2012.

B2. R. van Riel und A. Newen (eds.), ‘Reduction in the Philosophy of Mind’, Philosophia Naturalis (Special Issue), 47-48/2010-11, 1-2.

B1. A. Newen, R. van Riel, M. Sollberger (eds.), ‘Second European Graduate School: Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Science’. Abstracta (Special Issue), 5/2. 2009.

C. Papers, Contributions, Misc.

Forthcoming

C.54 R. van Riel: Hegemony and Cultural Domination, in: Th. Besch, H. Kincaid, T. Menon, R. van Riel (Hrsg.) Philosophical Perspectives on Cultural Domination, Routledge (forthcoming).

C.53. R. van Riel: ‘Reduktionismus und Reduktive Erklärungen’, in: V. Hoffman-Kolss (ed.), Handbuch Philosophie des Geistes, Metzler (forthcoming).

2024

C.52 R. van Riel 2024: „Scientific Reduction“ in: E. Zalta (Hrsg.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019 edition – revised and substantially extended version of the versions from 2019 and 2014 (these together with R.N. Van Gulick)

2022

C.51 R. van Riel : 'Free Will and Two Types of Determinism', The Review of Metaphysics: A Philosophical Quarterly 76, 2022, 95-113.

C.50. R. van Riel: ‘Two Originals, One Artwork’, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59, 2022, 119-134; DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.298

C.49. R. van Riel: ‘Representationalist Physicalism’, Theoria May 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12410

C.48. R. van Riel: ‘Weberian Ideal-Type Construction as Concept Replacement’, European Journal of Philosophy, 2022, DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12752.

2021

C.47. R. van Riel: ‘Nagel on Idealization in the Sciences’, in: M. Neuber & A. Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel. Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. Springer 2021, 111-130.

C.46. R. van Riel: ‘Erklärungen und Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse’, Unikate 2021 (56), 84-93.

2020

C.45. “In Search of the Missing Mechanism”, in: Hufendiek et al (eds): Social functions in philosophy, Routledge: 2020, 70-92.

C.44. R. van Riel: Gerson Reuter “Was wir grundlegend sind: Menschen unter anderen biologischen Einzeldingen”, Review in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur 2020, 42-51.

C.43. R. Hufendiek, D. James, R. van Riel: ‘Introduction’, in: Hufendiek et al (eds.) Social Functions in Philosophy, Routledge 2020, 1-18.

2019

C.42. with R. N. Van Gulick: ‘Scientific Reduction’, in: E. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019 (revised and extended version of van Riel & van Gulick 2014).

C.41. ‘Lying Beyond a Conversational Purpose. A Critique of Stokke’s Assertion Based Account of Lying’, The Journal of Philosophy 116 (2) 2019, 106-118.

C.40. with H. Koch ‘Gewalt – definitorische und normative Aspekte’, Sozialphsychiatrische Informationen, 41 I, 2019, 4-8.

2017

C.39. ‘Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Future-Dependent Beliefs’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 55, 2017, 500-520.

C.38. R. van Riel: ‘Reduktion und Emergenz’, in: M. Schrenk (ed.): Handbuch Metaphysik, Metzler 2017, 285-291.

C.37. ‘Falsche Fragen, Verstehenslücken, und philosophische Analysen’ Information Philosophie, 2017 (published manuscript of a talk delivered in Giessen in July 2016), link.

2016

C.36. ‘Leibniz on Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Necessitation Without Dependence’, Studia Leibnitiana 48, 2016, 178-200.

C.35. ‘Mental Disorder and the Indirect Construction of Social Facts’, Journal of Social Ontology 2016, Doi: 10.1515/jso-2016-0008.

C.34. ‘Real Knowledge Undermining Luck’, Logos and Episteme 2016, 325.344,

C.33. ‘What is the Problem of Explanation and Modeling?, Acta Analytica 2016, DOI: 10.1007/S12136-016-0307-y.

C.32. ‘What is Constructionism in Psychiatry? From Social Causes to Psychiatric Classification’, Frontiers in Psychiatry 2016, DOI:  10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00057.

C.31. ‘If you understand, you won’t be lucky’, Grazer Philosophische Studien 93, 2016, 196-211.

C.30. ‘Enhancing beyond what ought to be the case’, Bioethics 30, 2016, 384-388.

2015

C.29. ‘The Content of Model-Based Information’, Synthese 192, 2015, 3839-3858.

C.28. `Modelle und Interpretationen. Grenzen eines allgemeinen Modellbegriffs.’ Commentary on Bernd Mahr’s ‘Modelle und ihre Befragbarkeit’, Erwägen-Wissen-Ethik 3 2015, 399-401.

C.27. R. van Riel, J. Schildmann: ‘Enhancement der Moral. Zur Einführung’, in: R. van Riel, E. Di Nucci, J. Schildmann (eds.): Moralisches Enhancement. Mentis 2015.

C.26. Book Review: R. van Riel: Jason Stanley; ‘How Propaganda Works’, in: Moral Theory and Ethical Practice (online first) 2015: DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9667-4.

C.25. Markus Eronen, Raphael van Riel: ‘Understanding Through Modeling: The Explanatory Power of Inadequate Representation’, Synthese 192. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0973-0, 2015.

2014

C.24. with R. N. Van Gulick: ‘Scientific Reduction’, in: E. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014.

C.23. with Reuter, K., Kirfel, L., Barlassina, L.: ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Timely: How Temporal Order and Moral Judgement Influence Causal Selection’, Frontiers in Psychology 2014, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01336, 2014.

C.22. ‘The Nature of Types and Tokens: On the Metaphysical Commitments of Non-Reductive Physicalism’, Metaphysica 2014, DOI: 10.1515/mp-2014-0014.

C.21. ‘Prophets Against Ockhamism. Or: Why the hard fact/soft fact distinction is irrelevant to the problem of foreknowledge’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2014, 75 (2),  119-135.

C.20. ‘McDowell’s Frege (und Evans)’, in: Lauer & Barth (eds.) Die Philosophie John McDowells, Mentis, 2014, 203-222 .

2013

C.19. Book Review: R. van Riel: Michael Weisberg: Simulation and Similarity. Using Models to Understand the World. Oxford: OUP 2013. Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur 1, 2013, 60-70.

2012

C.18. ‘Pains, Pills, and Properties. Functionalism and the First-Order/Second- Order Distinction’, Dialectica 66, 2012, 543-562.

C.17. ‘Identity, Asymmetry, and the Relevance of Meanings for Models of Reduction’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2012, doi: 10.1093/bjps/ axs028.

C.16. ‘Cognitive Significance and Epistemic Intensions’, Logique et Analyse 54 2012.

C.15. ‘Personal Identity’, Newen, A. & R. van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry. Stanford: CSLI Publishing/Mentis, 2012.

C.14. A. Newen, R. van Riel, ‘Speaking and Thinking About the Self’, in: Newen & van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry. Stanford: CSLI Publishing/Mentis, 2012.

C.13. H. Wohlrapp, R. van Riel: ‘Schluss’, in: P. Kolmer und A. Wildfeuer (eds.); Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe, Karl Alber, 1919-1934, 2012.

2011

C.12. ‘Nagelian Reduction beyond the Nagel Model’, Philosophy of Science, 2011, 78/3, 353-375.

C.11. ‘Identity-Based Reduction and Reductive Explanation’, Philosophia Naturalis, 47-48 (1-2), 2010-2011, 185-221.

C.10. with F. Zenker, H. Gottschall, A. Newen, G. Vosgerau: ‘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, 6680, 2011, 249-255.

Prior to 2010

C.9. ‘On how we perceive the social world. Criticizing Gallagher’s view on direct perception and outlining an alternative’, Consciousness and Cognition 17/2, 2008, 544-552.

C.8. R. van Riel, ‘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.

C.7. Book Review: R. van Riel: David Woodruff Smith, Amie L. Thomasson (eds.): ‘Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind’, in: Philosophique, 36/1, 2009, 257–259 (in French).

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

C.5. Book Review: R. van Riel: Wohlrapp, Harald: ‘Der Begriff des Arguments. Über die Beziehung zwischen Wissen, Forschen, Glauben, Subjektivität und Vernunft’, in: Universitas (online), 2008.

C.4. R. van Riel, ‘Naxaliten (Indien)’, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2006. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, 55-60.

C.3. R. van Riel, ‘Naxaliten (Indien)’, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2005. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, 56-60.

C.2. R. van Riel, ‘Englisch in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft?’, in: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 1, 2006, 183-186.

C.1. R. van Riel, ‘Naxaliten (Indien)’, in: Wolfgang Schreiber (ed.): Das Kriegsgeschehen 2004. Daten und Tendenzen der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte. Wiesbaden: vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, 55-60.7

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.