Marcus Willaschek
Marcus Willaschek is a German philosopher who is primarily concerned with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as epistemology, theories of rationality and metaphysics.
Life
Willaschek graduated from the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg in 1982 and then studied philosophy with the minor subjects of biology, law and psychology at the University of Münster from 1984 to 1991. From 1988 to 1991, he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. In 1991, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Münster under Peter Rohs. His dissertation was published in 1992 under the title Praktische Vernunft. Handlungstheorie und Moralbegründung bei Kant. His habilitation at the University of Münster followed in 1999. His habilitation thesis was published in 2003 under the title Der mentale Zugang zur Welt. Realismus, Skeptizismus und Intentionalität and republished in 2015.In 2020, Willaschek received the Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize from the North American Kant Society for his book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason.
With his book Kant. Die Revolution des Denkens, Willaschek was nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize in 2024.