Philosophers on Contemporary Issues

Richard C. Taylor is now a Cooperating Partner* in the Jena University DFG-Research Training Group 2792: Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. "The interdisciplinary research training group investigates texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages which consciously depend on other texts and are in this sense ‚heteronomous’. To these phenomena belong commentaries, paraphrases and synopses as well as handbooks, lexica, chronicles, summaries, anthologies, and retold novels. Such texts have made a decisive contribution to the development of culture and science in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They will be studied interdisciplinary with regard to how they process by selecting and actualizing their pre-texts on various levels– scientific, cultural, formal, aesthetic – to constitute a unique form of textual ‘autonomy’.”   The Group will fund up to 24 doctoral researchers.

*The cooperating partners may be asked to accept responsibility as an external member of a 3-persons-committee ("Mentorat") which will supervise each PhD project, or to contribute to the study program by giving lectures or courses according to the topics and wishes of our doctoral students.