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Mario von der Ruhr was born on 17th March 1961 in
Oberhausen, West Germany. From 1981 to 1984, he studied
Philosophy and Theology at King's College, University of
London, graduating with a First Class B.A. Honours degree, and
as an Associate of King's College (A.K.C.). From 1984-1985, he
read Philosophy, Sociology and Educational Science at the
Universities of Bielefeld and Berlin (West Germany). In 1985,
he embarked on an M.Phil. research programme in Contemporary
Moral Theory and Political Philosophy at the University of St.
Andrews (Scotland). In 1987, he returned to the Free
University of Berlin, where he continued his research in
Philosophy, Sociology, and Educational Science. In the spring
of 1988, he took up a temporary post as research assistant to
Professor Dieter Lenzen, in the Department of Comparative
Educational Science, and then transferred to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), to embark on a Ph.D.
programme in Philosophy. During his time at Illinois, he was a
teaching assistant to various members of staff, and became
involved in undergraduate teaching from 1991 onwards. In
1996 he obtained his doctorate for a dissertation On
Understanding Ritual and Religion. Responses to Positivism,
produced under the supervision of Peter Winch.
Academic Career
In 1992, he returned to Britain to take up a full-time
teaching post in Philosophy at the University of Wales in
Swansea. Since then, he has been lecturing on Kant, Logical
Positivism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion,
Applied Philosophy, Philosophy & Literature, Schopenhauer,
and Nietzsche. He has also acted as Secretary of the Swansea
Philosophical Society and Chairman of the Welsh Philosophical
Society, and is a member of the UK Kant Society and the
Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar. In 1996, he was also a
temporary member of the Humanities Faculty of the European
Mozart Foundation. In the same year, he set up an academic
exchange between the Philosophy Departments Swansea and
Leipzig (Germany) . He is an Associate Editor of the journal Philosophical
Investigations, and has recently been appointed as one of
the trustees of the Peter Winch Nachlass.
Articles:
"Is Animism Alive and Well ? - A Response to Professor
Eldridge", in D.Z. Phillips (ed.), Can Religion Be
Explained Away ? (London: Macmillan, 1996), 26-46
"Kant and the Language of Reason", in Commonality
and Particularity in Ethics, ed. L. Alanen, T. Wallgren, S.
Heinämaa, (London: Macmillan, 1997), 386-400
"Whittaker and Kant on Eternal Life", in D.Z.
Phillips (ed.), Kant and Kierkegaard on Religion (London:Macmillan,
forthcoming)
Edited/Co-Edited Books:
Editor (with Timothy Tessin) of Philosophy and the Grammar
of Religious Belief (London: Macmillan, 1995)
Assistant Editor, Rush Rhees, Religion and Philosophy,
edited by D.Z. Phillips (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997)
Assistant Editor, Rush Rhees, Discussions of Simone Weil,
edited by D.Z. Phillips (New York: Suny Press, 2000)
Translations:
Peter Winch, "Lessing und die Auferstehung",
trans. Mario von der Ruhr and Helen Geyer, Deutsche Zeitschrift
für Philosophie 46 (1998): 729-760
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