PD Dr. Markus Wild

Organisation of Research Projects, Conferences, and Attraction funding

(a) disciplinary
• „Tim Crane: Perception and intentionality“: Workshop with Prof. Tim Crane (University College London) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 20. - 21. 6. 2007. Funded by the Schneider- Stiftung (Berlin).
• „Ruth Millikan: Language, mind, and biology“: Workshop with Prof. Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 22. - 25. 7. 2008 (together with Dr. Sarah Tietz, Berlin). Funded by the Schneider-Stiftung (Berlin).
• International Conference „How do teleological explanations work? Historical perspectives on final causes” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 27. - 28. 11. 2009 (together with Dr. Stephan Schmid, PD Dr. Johannes Haag, Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler, Berlin). Funded by the DFG.
• Co-Administration with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Brandt in the cection „Tierphilosophie“ and in the Colloquium „Gehören Tiere in den Raum der Gründe?“ at the XXII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie: „Welt der Gründe“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 11. - 15. 9. 2011.

(b) interdisciplinary
• Internationale Konferenz „Unsicheres Wissen. Skepsis und Wahrscheinlichkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit“ in the Leucorea, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 2. - 5. 4. 2007 (together with Prof. Dr. Lutz Danneberg, Berlin, Dr. Carlos Spoerhase, Kiel, Dr. Dirk Werle, Leipzig). Funded by the Fritz- Thyssen-Stiftung.

Upcoming Research (interdisciplinary)
• Participation at the Ernst Strüngmann Forum „Animal Thinking. Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition“ at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS in Frankfurt am Main, 26.09. – 1. 10. 2010.

Cooperative Research

(a) disciplinary
• Co-Conceptional design of the project „Transformationen des Geistes: Philosophische Psychologie zwischen 1500 und 1750“ (2006 - 2011), following the award of the Leibniz-Preis 2005 to Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler.
• Co-Conceptional design of the 2. international conference „Mind in Nature“ of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy, 15. - 17. 2. 2010 in Berlin.
(b) interdisciplinary
• Member in the network of literary criticism „Verbannte Gewalten“ of the DFG (proposer: Prof. Dr. Roland Borgards, Würzburg, and Prof. Dr. Maximilian Bergengruen, Genf), 1/2005 - 12/2007. (Article: „Velásquez, Las meninas und die politische Zoologie der Frühen Neuzeit“.)