Dominik Perler (born 1965) is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2003) and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts and Science (since
2007). He studied at the Universities of Fribourg (Dr. phil. 1991) and Göttingen (Habilitation
1996), was Fellow of All Souls and Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford (1996-97) and Professor of Philosophy at Basel (1996-2003). He had visiting appointments at UCLA, St. Louis University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin (2004-05) and at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (2010). In 2006, he was awarded the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy, mostly in the areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology and ontology.
Publications (Selection)
Recent English papers:
- "Emotions and Cognitions. Fourteenth-Century Discussions on the Passions of the Soul," Vivarium 43 (2005), 250-274.
- "Thought Experiments. The Methodological Function of Angels in Late Medieval Epistemology," in: Angels in Medieval Philosophical Enquiry: Their Function and Significance, ed. by I. Iribarren & M. Lenz, Aldershot: Ashgate 2008, 143-153.
- "Skepticism," in: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. by R. Pasnau, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press 2010, 384-396.
- "Could God Deceive Us? Skeptical Hypotheses in Late Medieval Epistemology," in: Rethinking the History of Skepticism. The Missing Medieval Background, ed. by H. Lagerlund, Leiden: Brill 2010, 171-192.
- "Spinoza on Skepticism," in: The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, ed. by M. Della Rocca, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Books in German:
- Repräsentation bei Descartes, Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann 1996.
- Occasionalismus. Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000.
- Theorien der Intentionalität im Mittelalter, Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann 2002.
- Zweifel und Gewissheit. Skeptische Debatten im Mittelalter, Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann 2006.
Books in English:
- Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality, Leiden: Brill 2001 (editor).
- Transformations of the Soul. Aristotelian Psychology 1250-1650, Leiden: Brill 2008 (editor, special issue of Vivarium).
