Subject and university didactics, natural philosophy, anthropology, hermeneutics and cultural philosophy, history of science and technology

Monograph

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Natural Science Hermeneutics. A philosophy of finitude in historical, systematic and applied terms. Würzburg.

Editions

Reinhard Schulz (2014ff.): Co-editor Annotated Complete Edition of the Works, Estate and Letters of Karl Jaspers, Schwabe-Verlag, Basel.

Edited conference proceedings and anthologies

Reinhard Schulz (2011): Karl Jaspers. Grundbegriffe seines Denkens, Reinbek (ed., together with Hamid Reza Yousefi, Werner Schüßler and Ulrich Diehl).

Reinhard Schulz (2009): New concepts of economics. Companies between sustainability, culture and ethics. Festschrift für Reinhard Pfriem, Marburg (together with Irene Antoni-Komar, Marina Beermann, Christian Lautermann, Joachim Müller, Niko Paech, Hedda Schattke and Uwe Schneidewind).

Reinhard Schulz (2009): Truth is what unites us. Karl Jasper's art of philosophising. International Jaspers Year on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Karl Jaspers, Göttingen (together with Giandomenico Bonanni and Matthias Bormuth).

Reinhard Schulz (2008): Enabling the future. Food for thought from fifteen years of Karl Jaspers' lectures on contemporary issues. In honour of the initiator Rudolf zur Lippe, Würzburg.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Why still humanities? Oldenburg, (together with Mario Goldmann, Jens Körsen and Dirk Thomaschke).

Reinhard Schulz (2005): Philosophie in literarischen und ästhetischen Gestalten, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag.

Essays in conferences and anthologies

Reinhard Schulz (2012): The belief in perception and problems of visualising practices following Merleau-Ponty. In: Self-formations. Practices of Subjectivisation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective, Bielefeld, pp. 351-373.

Reinhard Schulz (2012): Karl Jaspers: Being-nothing-speculation and living presently - unity or contradiction? In: Jens Lemanski, Rico Hauswald and Daniel Schubbe (eds.): "Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?", Hamburg, pp. 205-225.

Reinhard Schulz (2012): Against the unconscious addressing of learning tasks. In: Ludwig Duncker/Hans-Joachim Müller/Bettina Uhlig (eds.): Betrachten - Staunen - Denken. Philosophising with children between art and language, Munich, pp. 127-136.

Reinhard Schulz (2012): Faith, Science, and Philosophy. In: Helmut Wautischer, Alan M. Olson and Gregory J. Walters (Ed.): Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, p. 165-178.

Reinhard Schulz (2012): On man's aesthetic relationship to nature. In: Katrin and Peter Seele (eds.): Orders in Transition, Baltmannsweiler, p. 94-110.

Reinhard Schulz (2011): Does justice make us happy? Philosophising about a just and caring relationship with nature. In: This is where the future plays. Children. Values. Climate protection. Documentation of the symposium from 02.12. - 03.12.2010/Potsdam. Leuchtpol gemeinnützige Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Umweltbildung im Elementarbereich mbH in co-operation with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Natur- und Umweltbildung Bundesverband e.V. (ANU), Frankfurt am Main, pp. 60-62.

Reinhard Schulz (2011): Jaspers and Whitehead. In: Oliver Immel/Harald Stelzer (eds.): World and Philosophy. Political, Cultural and Social Philosophical Contributions to the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Innsbruck, pp. 55-70.

Reinhard Schulz (2011): Karl Jaspers and the truth. In: Hamid Reza Yousefi, Werner Schüßler, Reinhard Schulz, Ulrich Diehl (eds.): Karl Jaspers. Grundbegriffe seines Denkens, Reinbek, pp. 141-154.

Reinhard Schulz (2011): Explanatory notes. In: Reinhard Pfriem (ed.): 2nd Spiekerooger KlimaGespräche. How much happiness is possible? - in times of climate change. 4-6 November 2010 Documentation, pp. 72-74.

Reinhard Schulz (2010): Question culture or against the unconscious addressing of learning tasks. In: Hanna Kiper/Waltraud Meints/Sebastian Peters/Stephanie Schlump/Stefan Schmit (eds.): Lernaufgaben und Lernmaterialien im kompetenzorientierten Unterricht, Stuttgart 2010, pp. 125-132.

Reinhard Schulz (2010): Explanatory notes. In: Reinhard Pfriem (ed.): 1st Spiekerooger KlimaGespräche 29-31 October 2009 Documentation, pp. 74-75.

Reinhard Schulz (2010): Natural philosophical questions to the life sciences. In: Myriam Gerhard/Christine Zunke (eds.): "We need to make science more human again." Aspects and Perspectives of Natural Philosophy, Kassel, pp. 183-201.

Reinhard Schulz (2009): Karl Jaspers. In: Dagmar Freist and Wolfgang Erich Müller (eds.): Geistesblitze. Forscher, Erfinder und Gelehrte im Oldenburger Land, exhibition Landesbibliothek Oldenburg, Oldenburg, pp. 80-85 (together with Giandomenico Bonanni).

Reinhard Schulz (2009): Karl Jaspers and Hans-Georg Gadamer - a break with tradition? In: Waltraud Meints, Michael Daxner and Gerhard Kraiker (eds.): Raum der Freiheit. Reflections on Idea and Reality. Festschrift for Antonia Grunenberg, Bielefeld, pp. 71-81.

Reinhard Schulz (2009): Richard Rorty. In: Thomas Jung and Stefan Müller-Doohm (eds.): Fliegende Fische. Eine Soziologie des Intellektuellen in 20 Porträts, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 171-183 (together with Hartwig Germer).

Reinhard Schulz (2008): What can we hope for? Nature and History in Arendt and Jaspers. In: Antonia Grunenberg/Waltraud Meints/Oliver Bruns/Chrisitine Hackensee (eds.): Perspektiven politischen Denkens. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Hannah Arendt , Hannah Arendt-Studien 4, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, pp. 93-109.

Reinhard Schulz (2008): What may we hope for? Nature and History in Arendt and Jaspers. In: Andreas Cesana/Gregory Walters (eds.): Karl Jaspers: Geschichtliche Wirklichkeit mit Blick auf die Grundfragen der Menschheit, Würzburg, pp. 135-149.

Reinhard Schulz (2008): Collective consciousness in the space between practical certainty of life, self-care and reification. In: Karen Gloy (ed.): Collective and Individual Consciousness, Würzburg, pp. 175-190.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Schelling's Philosophy of Nature and the Organic Conception of the Natural Sciences - Break or Continuity? In: Klaus Brinkmann (Ed.): Critical Concepts: German Idealism. Volume Four: New Horizons and the Legacy of German Idealism, Routledge GB, pp. 3-23.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Equivocations in the attribution of moral responsibility in companies. In: Thomas Beschorner, Patrick Linnebach, Reinhard Pfriem and Günter Ulrich (eds.): Unternehmensverantwortung aus kulturalistischer Sicht, Marburg, pp. 33-43.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Ernst Cassirer's phenomenological distinction between science and technology. A critique of sociological science studies. In: Dimitri Ginev (ed.): Aspekte der phänomenologischen Theorie der Wissenschaft, Perspektiven, Neue Folge 21, pp. 174-192.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Why still humanities? Or: In search of the reconciliation of the irreconcilable. In: Mario Goldmann, Jens Körsen, Reinhard Schulz and Dirk Thomaschke (eds.): Why still humanities? Oldenburg, pp. 79-94.

Reinhard Schulz (2007): Time and culture: the crystallisation thesis. In Johann Kreuzer and Georg Mohr (eds.): Die Realität der Zeit, Munich, pp. 79-98 (together with Falk Müller).

Reinhard Schulz (2007): 1934/35: The Experiment between Theory and Culture - Ludwik Fleck in Comparison with Karl Popper and Edgar Wind. In: Bozena Choluj / Jan C. Joerden (eds.): From scientific fact to knowledge production. Ludwik Fleck and his significance for science and practice. (Studien zur Ethik in Ostmitteleuropa, vol. 11), Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna, pp. 95-109.

Reinhard Schulz (2005): Synthetic biology. Incentive for holistic thinking or mathematisation of the living? In: Karen Gloy / Rudolf zur Lippe (eds.) Weisheit - Wissen - Information, Göttingen, pp. 153-175.

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Responsibility and vision - from a philosophical perspective. In: Britta Konz, Ulrike Link-Wieczorek (eds.): Vision und Verantwortung. Festschrift for Ilse Meseborg-Haubold, Münster, pp. 7-20.

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Culture as science? A cultural-philosophical critique. In: Forschungsgruppe Unternehmen und gesellschaftliche Organisation (FUGO, ed.): Perspektiven einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorie der Unternehmung, Marburg, pp. 211-239.

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Communicative boundaries: The different significance of paradoxes for the origin of cognition in Jaspers and Luhmann. In: Bernd Weidmann (ed.): Existence in Communication. On the Philosophical Ethics of Karl Jaspers, Würzburg, pp. 179-192.

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Expectations in the mode of methodical knowability. On the relationship between hermeneutic and scientific experience. In: Reinhold Esterbauer, Elisabeth Pernkopf, Schönhart, Mario (eds.): Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit. On the concept of experience in the natural sciences, Würzburg, pp. 211-230.

Reinhard Schulz (2003): Organism and freedom. Hans Jonas' phenomenological interpretation of modern biology. In: Wolfgang Erich Müller (ed.): Hans Jonas - von der Gnosisforschung zur Verantwortungsethik, Stuttgart, pp. 63-84.

Reinhard Schulz (2003):Die verschiedene Bedeutung von Paradoxien für den Ursprung von Erkenntnis bei Jaspers und Luhmann. In: R. Wisser and L. H. Ehrlich (eds.): Karl Jaspers' Philosophy. Present and Future, Würzburg, pp. 83-94.

Reinhard Schulz (2003): Solidarity without responsibility? A critical comment on Richard Rorty. In: Jürgen Heumann (ed.): Beyond Good and Evil. On the Responsibility of Science and Religion. Volume 4 of the Winter Lectures on Contemporary Issues between Religion and Culture, Oldenburg, pp. 5-16.

Reinhard Schulz (2001): Nietzsche and Rorty. Two metaphysical positions. In: Renate Reschke (ed.): Zeitenwende - Wertewende. International Congress on the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Nietzsche's death, 24-27 August 2000 in Naumburg, Berlin, pp. 165-169.

Reinhard Schulz (1999): What does understanding biology mean? In: Márta Fehér, Olga Kiss and László Ropolyi (Eds.): Hermeneutics and Science. Kluver, Dordrecht, pp. 171-182.

Reinhard Schulz (1998): Aspects of a naturalistic hermeneutics. In: Bernulf Kanitscheider and Franz Josef Wetz (eds.): Naturalism and Hermeneutics. Tübingen, pp. 139-167.

Reinhard Schulz (1997): On the way to a natural science hermeneutics. In Uta Loeber-Pautsch et al. (eds.): Quer zu den Disziplinen, Beiträge aus der Sozial-, Umwelt- und Wissenschaftsforschung. Hanover, pp. 419-438.

Reinhard Schulz (1997): Experience and Experiment in Hönigswald and Merleau-Ponty. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Erkennen-Monas-Sprache. International Hönigswald Symposium in Kassel 1995, Würzburg, pp. 195-210.

Reinhard Schulz (1997): The ambivalence of scientific progress using the example of the human body. In: Detlef Hoffman (ed.): Posture, Gestures, Body Language. The human body in communication. Loccumer Protokolle, 75/96, pp. 9-34.

Reinhard Schulz (1993): Schelling's Philosophy of Nature and the Organic Conception of the Natural Sciences - Break or Continuity? In: Karen Gloy and Paul Burger (eds.): Die Naturphilosophie im Deutschen Idealismus. Stuttgart, pp. 149-174.

Reinhard Schulz (1992): Extraterrestrial Utopias. On the metaphorics of disappearance. In: Rüdiger Schmidt and Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.): Philosophischer Taschenkalender. Yearbook on the dispute between the Schools. Lübeck, pp. 221-229.

Reinhard Schulz (1991): 'Die Schönheit der Fraktale': Die Symbolbildung in den Naturwissenschaften, in Detlef Hoffmann (ed.): Die Sachen und ihre Schatten, Loccumer Protokolle 1, pp. 121-140.

Journal articles

Reinhard Schulz (2014): Wider den Methodenzwang: Experience, Practices and Observation. In: General Journal of Philosophy (AZP), Volume 39, Issue 1, pp. 71-86.

Reinhard Schulz (2010): The 'I' in the field of tension between conflict and control. Thoughts on identity(ies). In: Journal for systemic therapy and counselling, pp. 74-79.

Reinhard Schulz (2010): Top hats, tailcoats and glass beads. In: Insights No. 51, pp. 20-23.

Reinhard Schulz (2008):Moderation on the occasion of Karl Jaspers' 125th birthday in Oldenburg Castle on 23 February. In: Hans Saner: Von der Weite des Denkens und der Verlässlichkeit des Handelns. Karl Jaspers in his time, Oldenburger Universitätsreden 181, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, pp. 7-9.

Reinhard Schulz (2005): Why still metaphysics? Philosophising in the field of tension between construction and destruction. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (AZP), Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 253-269.

Reinhard Schulz (2005): Karl Jaspers and the European idea of education. In: Jaspers Yearbook, vol. 18, pp. 43-65.

Reinhard Schulz (2004): Superimpositions. Media-aesthetic remarks on Flusser and Nietzsche. In: DIVINATIO Studia Culturologica Series, Volume 20, Autumn-Winter, Sofia, pp. 51-73.

Reinhard Schulz (2002): Education! No thanks? On the history and topicality of a controversial subject. (Inaugural lecture), Oldenburger Universitätsreden 137, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag.

Reinhard Schulz (1999): Representing and Reconstructing. A hermeneutic reply to Ian Hacking. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 30. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 365-375.

Reinhard Schulz (1997): Time - phenomenon or construct? Hermeneutic Reflections on Nature and History, in: Logos, Neue Folge Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 96-115.

Reinhard Schulz (1995):Helmholtz and Gadamer: Provocation and Solidarity. On the origin of philosophical hermeneutics in the spirit of natural science. In: Philosophia naturalis 32, pp. 141-154.

Reinhard Schulz (1993): Is there a specific scientific experimental practice for Romanticism? In: Philosophia naturalis 30, pp. 254-277.

Published abstracts

Reinhard Schulz (2004): The actuality of Ernst Cassirer's separation of science and technology. - European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)-Conference 2004: "Public Proofs. Science, Technology and Democracy", Paris, 25-28 August, p. 568.

Reinhard Schulz (2000): What is Scientific Hermeneutics? - European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)-Conference 2000: "Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century", University of Vienna, 27-30 September, p. 140

Reinhard Schulz (1998): Noneliminable Ambiguities in System Theory, Hermeneutics and Science. - International Conference on Science, Technology & Society (STS): "Science and Society - Technological Turn". Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima, 16-22 March, p. 82.

Reinhard Schulz (1994): Helmholtz and Gadamer: Provocation and Solidarity. On the Generation of Hermeneutics in the Spirit of Science. - European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)-Conference on "Science, Technology and Change: New Theories, Realities, Institutions", Budapest, 28-31 August, p. 272.

Encyclopaedia article

Reinhard Schulz (1998): Metabolism. In: Joachim Ritter and Karlfried Gründer (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, vol. 10, Basel, pp. 190-197.

Reinhard Schulz (1998): System, biological. In: Joachim Ritter and Karlfried Gründer (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, vol. 10, Basel, pp. 856-862.

Reinhard Schulz (1992): Reproduction. In: Joachim Ritter and Karlfried Gründer (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, vol. 8, Basel, pp. 853-858. Wissenschaftspopädeutik und Fachdidaktik Monographie

Reinhard Schulz (1987): Causality and Teleology. The necessary return of philosophy of science to metaphysics. In: Arbeitsberichte Folge 51, Wiss. Inst. für Schulpraxis. Bremen. Published conference and edited volumes

Reinhard Schulz (2001): Wissenschaftspropädeutik: Nähe suchen - Distanz wahren conference on 5 May 2000 at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburger Vor-Drucke 433, Oldenburg (ed.).

Reinhard Schulz (1996): Improvement of study and teaching. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, (ed.).

Journal articles

Reinhard Schulz (1998): Copernicus and his time. Report from an interdisciplinary seminar. In: On the didactics of physics and chemistry. Alsbach, Bergstr. 18, pp. 158-160.

Reinhard Schulz (1991): Self-organisation concepts - drafts of a new natural philosophy? On holistic thinking in science education. In: Oldenburger Vor-Drucke 142, Oldenburg: University, Centre for Pedagogical Professional Practice.

Reinhard Schulz (1988): Zur Rechtfertigung des historisch -genetischen Ansatzes im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht. In: physica didactica 15, issue 3/4, Bad Salzdetfurth, pp. 32-59 (together with Falk Rieß). Articles in conferences and anthologies

Reinhard Schulz (2001): Heterogeneous expectations. New demands on education and training. In: Scientific propaedeutics. Seeking closeness - maintaining distance. Oldenburger Vor-Drucke 433, Oldenburg, pp. 45-55.

Reinhard Schulz (1998): University as a living environment - disintegration of a living environment? In: Final report of the research network Interdisciplinary Social Structure Research (FIS) of the working groups Interdisciplinary Social Structure Research (AGIS) of the Universities of Hanover and Oldenburg 1992-1997. Hanover, pp. 102-104 (together with Karsten Gerlof, Torsten Gieselmann and Thorsten Schulz).

Reinhard Schulz (1997): The sense in nonsense. Sketches from Shampoo University. In: Uta Loeber-Pautsch et al. (eds.): Quer zu den Disziplinen. Contributions from social, environmental and scientific research. Hanover, pp. 46-76 (together with Karsten Gerlof, Torsten Gieselmann, Samira Hammoud, Gerrit Krull, Dana Rade, Thorsten Schulz, Heiko Visser and David Eschrich).

Reinhard Schulz (1996): History of the natural sciences. In: Reinhard Böhm and Hergen Manns (eds.), Studienführer Mathematik/Naturwissenschaften. Munich, pp. 59-69 (together with Falk Rieß).

Reinhard Schulz (1995): Studying ability between business location and leisure park. In: Gudrun Stenzel (ed.), Studienorientierung, Inf. zur wiss. Further education, vol. 58, Oldenburg, pp. 51-67.

Reinhard Schulz (1994): Popularisation and demystification of natural science among educated lay people. In: Wolfgang Nitsch (ed.), Kulturelle Vermittlungsformen gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse, AGIS Texte 5. Oldenburg, pp. 24-33 (together with Wilfried Suhr).

Reinhard Schulz (1994): Naturwissenschaftslernen als Textverstehen und Geräteverstehen - Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik in hermeneutischer Absicht und die Rekonstruktion historischer Experimentierpraxis. In: Wolf Misgeld et al. (eds.), Historical-genetic learning in the natural sciences. Weinheim, pp. 185-204 (together with Falk Rieß).

Reinhard Schulz (1994): What does understanding biology mean? Preliminary considerations on a hermeneutic biology. In Wolf Misgeld et al. (eds.): Historisch - genetisches Lernen in den Naturwissenschaften. Weinheim, pp. 263-286.

Scientific contributions

Monograph

Reinhard Schulz (1984): Die circadiane Rhythmik der Sporenbildung von Neurospora crassa: Untersuchungen zur Rolle des Energiesmetwechselels an Rhythmik- (frq 1 und frq 7) und mitochondrial (poky, C 93) Mutanten. Dissertation. Bremen.

Journal articles

Reinhard Schulz (1985): On the Role of Energy Metabolism in Neurospora Circadian Clock Function. In: Chronobiology International Vol. 2 No. 4, Pergamon Press Ltd. 1985, pp. 223-233 (together with Ulrich Pilatus and Ludger Rensing).

Reinhard Schulz (1984): How does the internal clock work? Approaches to the elucidation of the molecular mechanism of circadian rhythmicity. In: Biologie in unserer Zeit 14, Weinheim, pp. 13-19 (together with Ludger Rensing).

Reinhard Schulz (1979): Sporulation of Mitochondrial Respiratory Deficient mit-Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In: Molec. Gen. Genet (MGG). 176, Springer-Verlag, pp. 411-415 (together with Elke Pratje, Susanne Schnierer and Georg Michaelis). Published abstracts

Reinhard Schulz (1983): 31 P-NMR Studies of wild-type and circadian clock mutants of Neurospora crassa. In: Hoppe-Seyler's J. Physiol. Chem. 364. DeGruyter Berlin/New York, pp. 1214-1215 (together with Ulrich Pilatus).

Reinhard Schulz (1982): Evidence for the involvement of energy metabolism within the circadian clock mechanism of Neurospora crassa. In: Hoppe-Seyler's J. Physiol. Chem. 363, DeGruyter Berlin/New York, p. 957 (together with Jerry F. Feldman and Ludger Rensing).

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