The Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy was founded in 2007 by Myriam Gerhard and has been published by BIS-Verlag in Oldenburg ever since. It originally brought together selected contributions from the Philosophical Colloquium, in which external and internal professors and early career researchers could present their research and graduates of the Institute could present their theses. The aim is to provide a forum for teachers, researchers, students and interested parties from outside the institute to find out about and discuss current developments and issues in philosophy.

In addition to Myriam Gerhard, the yearbook has been edited in changing constellations by Christine Zunke, Ingo Elbe and Philip Hogh. Since the 2017/2018 edition, it has brought together works from the colloquium as well as other contributions that reflect life at the institute, including inaugural lectures and graduation speeches, for example. The texts collected in the yearbook are intended to provide a broader insight into life at the Institute and the diverse discussions that take place here. Accordingly, the topics of the yearbook touch on the most diverse areas of contemporary philosophy. Despite all the thematic differences, the contributors are committed to a shared philosophical dialogue, which they hope to further promote through the yearbook.

The 2021/2022 edition is currently in progress.

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Authors of the Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy can find information on style and design for their contribution in the document linked here.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2019/2020
Bauer, Alexander Max and Baratella, Nils (eds.) (2021): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2019/2020. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2391-9, 292 pages.

• Bauer, Alexander Max and Baratella, Nils: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Künne, Wolfgang: "Bolzano's concepts of analyticity". S. 7-63.
• Grass, Helena Esther: "Critical Philosophy and the Doctrine of the Good Life. A tense dialogue". S. 65-88.
• Baratella, Nils: "Keiner ist für sich frei. On the significance of social relations for Hannah Arendt's concept of freedom". S. 89-106.
• Bornmüller, Falk: "On self-respect". S. 107-124.
• Möbuß, Susanne: "On the history of existential thinking". S. 125-144.
• Jamme, Christoph: "Die Verschiedenheit der Künste und das Wirkziel der Tragödie. On Lessing's Laocoon and his Hamburg Dramaturgy". S. 145-162.
• Schmid Noerr, Gunzelin: "Alfred Schmidt and the project of a history of materialism". S. 163-191.
• Neuhäuser, Christian: "On the normative status of the critique of wealth". S. 193-213.
• Arndt, Andreas:"'We have never been subjects'. Notes on the 'death of the subject'".S. 215-231.
• Schulz, Maximilian Paul: "Constitutive elements of anti-Semitism". S. 233-267.
• Blattner, Paul and Gregor-Gehrmann, Kerstin:"'Phenomenology of Human Culture'. Insights into the discussions of an inter-university reading group on Ernst Cassirer's Versuch über den Menschen". S. 269-282.
• Bauer, Alexander Max: "Babylonian sensitivities. Hans-Helmuth Bruns' 'Babel in Germany'".S. 283-290.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018
Bauer, Alexander Max and Baratella, Nils (eds.) (2019): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2017/2018. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2378-0, 357 pages.

• Bauer, Alexander Max and Baratella, Nils: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Brandt, Reinhard: "Observations on the university". S. 7-24.
• Engel, Birgit: "Aesthetic education in teacher training programmes. Potentials and challenges of a perceptual reflexivity". S. 25-48.
• Helling, Simon: "Against the maxim of being right. The process of mutual education in Fichte". S. 49-64.
• Bruns, Johannes: "The ego in science. Reflections on the relationship between subject and cognition". S. 65-84.
• Noller, Jörg: "The determination of freedom. Kant and the problem of autonomy". S. 85-94.
• Wetz, Franz Josef: "Self-respect. 'Who offends me, I decide' (Oscar Wilde)". S. 95-110.
• Bianchi, Sarah: "Vulnerability and life. Nietzsche in the Context of the Recognition Debate". S. 111-138.
• Schulz, Maximilian Paul: "Of powerlessness and violence. The Relationship between the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Political Economy". S. 139-173.
• Maffeis, Stefania: "Between Nature and Politics. Ambiguous Belonging in the Thought of Hannah Arendt". S. 175-192.
• Pfau, Enrico: "Critical theory and the concept of the 'administered world'".S. 193-207.
• Hollewedde, Sabine: "Adorno's reception of Kant. A neglected foundation of critical philosophy". S. 209-233.
• Barteczko, David: "Interferences of experience. On the moral, political and aesthetic dimension of the concept of social experience in Michel Foucault". S. 235-255.
• Rickermann, Jan:"'Dying for the sake of the people...'. Why the 'perfect socialist' of the Khmer Rouge has always been sacrificed to the collective". S. 257-284.
• Bauer, Alexander Max: "Gerechtigkeit und Bedürfnis Perspektiven auf den Begriff des 'Bedürfnisses' vor dem Hintergrund der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit". S. 285-327.
• Schlüter, Riske Manuel: "On the holism of the verifiability of climate models". S. 329-348.
• Alkemeyer, Thomas:"'It's all open again'. Speech at the graduation ceremony 2018". S. 349-352.
• Bauer, Alexander Max:"'Truth is what unites us'. A farewell to the graduates of School IV". S. 353-357.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2012
Elbe, Ingo; Hogh, Philip and Zunke, Christine (eds.) (2014): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2012. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2303-2, 219 pages.

• Elbe, Ingo; Hogh, Philip and Zunke, Christine: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Elbe, Ingo: "Alienated and abstract labour. Marx's Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts in Comparison with his later Critique of Political Economy". S. 7-69.
• Ellmers, Sven: John Rawls. Gerechtigkeit im Zeichen weltanschaulicher Pluralität". S. 71-95.
• Kornmesser, Stephan: "Theoretische Begriffe und empirische Überprüfbarkeit im Logischen Empirismus und im Strukturalismus". S. 97-123.
• Menegoni, Francesca: "Subject and structure of action in Hegel". S. 125-138.
• Nannini, Sandro: "The Naturalisation of Phenomenal Consciousness". S. 139-159.
• Puzic, Maik: "Reflections on the concept of 'second nature' following Anders, Hegel and Adorno". S. 161-181.
• Schippers, Michael: "The concept of coherence. A mathematical perspective". S. 183-198.
• Wandschneider, Dieter: "What are natural laws and why do they exist?". S. 199-219.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2011
Elbe, Ingo and Zunke, Christine (eds.) (2012): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2011. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2265-3, 169 pages.

• Elbe, Ingo and Zunke, Christine: "Foreword". S. 5-7.
• Brandt, Reinhard: "Renewed question: Can animals think?". S. 9-31.
• Gutmann, Mathias and Syed, Tareq: "Why 'critical evolutionary theory'? Some methodological considerations". S. 33-61.
• Toepfer, Georg: "Teleological object definition". S. 63-80.
• Vollmann, Morris: "Compulsion of conscience and moral law. Limits and potentials of psychoanalytic moral criticism". S. 81-104.
• Heck, Stephanie: "From Reproduction to Care. Analyses of feminist economics". S. 105-117.
• Krauth, Stefan: "This master of free will. On spontaneity without freedom". S. 119-138.
• Lissemann, Konrad Paul: "The state. How much rule does man need?". S. 139-152.
• Hirt, Oliver: "Apocalypse and revolution". S. 153-169.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2010
Zunke, Christine (ed.) (2011): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2010. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2231-8, 222 pages.

• Zunke, Christine: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Bartosch, David: "Zur Rede vom immanenten guten (Ge-)Wissen (liáng zhī 良知) bei Wáng Yángmíng (王守仁 1472-1529) aus interkulturell philosophierenden Perspektive". S. 7-37.
• Bruns, Oliver: "The 'End of Politics' in Vilém Flusser's Philosophy of Culture". S. 39-62.
• Meyfeld, Dirk: "Hegel's position on Jewish emancipation". S. 63-84.
• Freitag, Wolfgang: "Die zwei Universalienprobleme (und warum der Klassennominalismus nur eins lösen kann)". S. 85-99.
• Junga, Kristin: "Talking about education as a philosopher... Education as a question of motivation". S. 101-125.
• Denschlag, Felix: "The talk of collective memory". S. 127-144.
• Elbe, Ingo: "From owner to property. Natural Law, Social Contract and State in the Thought of John Locke". S. 145-180.
• Schmieder, Falko: "Feuerbach-Marx revisited. On the reconceptualisation of a revolutionary break in 19th century thought". S. 181-202.
• Wallat, Hendrik: "Die Grenzen der Erkenntnis und ihre Überschreitung. From the angels of St Thomas to the matter of the Antichrist". S. 203-222.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2009
Gerhard, Myriam (ed.) (2010): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2009. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2199-1, 236 pages.

• Gerhard, Myriam: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Ruschig, Ulrich: "Introduction. Two theses and a corollary". S. 7-11.
• Geldsetzer, Lutz: "Why the history of philosophy? And why this question is particularly urgent today". S. 13-28.
• Zunke, Christine: "Philosophy is unthinkable without its history". S. 29-39.
• Kreuzer, Johann: "The factual themes of philosophy are the picture puzzle of its history. Or: On the temporal core of truth". S. 41-56.
• de Vos, Lu: "The path to truth. Truth in reference to Hegel". S. 57-73.
• Germer, Hartwig: "Zur 'Als-ob-Problematik' in den Schriften Immanuel Kants". S. 75-99.
• Voland, Eckart: "God has history. Does he also have natural history?". S. 101-111.
• Zunke, Christine: "What is life?". S. 113-126.
• Solies, Dirk: "'Life' as a concept of epoch. Reflections on the relationship between nature and the humanities in the 19th century". S. 127-159.
• Reitz, Tilman: "The dispute over forms of life. Politics on this side and beyond the state". S. 161-189.
• Hartung, Gerald: "The organism of language. Heymann Steinthal's critique of the organism theory of language". S. 191-208.
• Heidbrink, Ludger: "The limits of responsibility in the age of globalisation". S. 209-231.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2008
Gerhard, Myriam (ed.) (2008): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2008. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2136-6, 184 pages.

• Gerhard, Myriam: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Arndt, Andreas: "Hegel's system?". S. 7-22.
• Moro, Nadia: "Ars experientiam recte intelligendi. On J. F. Herbart's justification of metaphysics". S. 23-48.
• Leerhoff, Holger: "Consequences of the Bradley Regress for Ontologies of Facts". S. 49-68.
• Zunke, Christine: "Geistevolution". S. 69-94.
• Pivčević, Edo: "The divided truth". S. 95-106.
• Bensch, Hans-Georg: "On the problem of truth in traditional critical theory". S. 107-120.
• Gesierich, Enno: "The self-mystification of the automatic subject". S. 121-140.
• Monseu, Nicolas: "The problem of motivation in Husserl's second ethics". S. 141-159.
• Lüschen, Linn-Anika: "Ethics commissions. On the relationship between concept and reality". S. 161-181.

Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2007
Gerhard, Myriam (ed.) (2008): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2007. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8142-2101-4, 334 pages.

• Gerhard, Myriam: "Foreword". S. 5.
• Schiemann, Gregor: "Werner Heisenberg's position on a hypothetical conception of science in his popular speeches and essays". S. 9-27.
• Wolff, Michael: "Geometrie und Anschauung". S. 29-49.
• Pollok, Konstatin: "Sediments of knowledge. Kant's theory of the natural sciences and its dynamisation in Michael Friedmann". S. 51-82.
• Sell, Annette: "Sensibility, Irritability, Reproduction. Biological concepts in Hegel's science of logic". S. 83-101.
• Seele, Peter: " Glauben, Meinen, Zweifeln. Augustin's 'Bridgehead Philosophy' and his Struggle with Knowledge". S. 103-121.
• Kornwachs, Klaus: "Power of technology - technicity of power". S. 123-172.
• Kuhne, Frank: "Why philosophy? On the self-consciousness of philosophy and the philosophy of self-consciousness". S. 175-189.
• Hoffmann, Thomas Sören: "'Naturrecht' bei Hegel. Reflections on the lasting topicality of a dialectical treatment of the concept of law". S. 191-217.
• Adolphi, Rainer: "The Forums of Subjectivity. Towards a Reconstruction of the Relationship between We and I". S. 219-252.
• Heuser, Marie-Luise: "Romanticism and Society. The economic theory of productive forces". S. 253-277.
• Reichel, Juliane: "Alles Spiel? The significance of play for Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics". S. 279-302.
• Grundke, Daniel: "The importance of language in the implementation of ethically relevant behaviour in companies". S. 303-334.