{{Infobox philosopher|region=Western philosophy|era=Contemporary philosophy|image=|caption=|name=|birth_date=|birth_place=|death_date=|death_place=|school_tradition=German Idealism|institutions=|main_interests=|thesis_title=Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit|thesis_url=https://d-nb.info/1019610530/04|thesis_year=2009|doctoral_advisor=|academic_advisors=Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ludwig Siep, Michael Theunissen<ref>{{Cite book |last=Emundts |first=Dina |url=https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9783465145950/erfahren-und-erkennen?page=1 |title=Erfahren und Erkennen |date=2022 |page=6 |publisher=Klostermann |isbn=978-3-465-04595-3 |doi=10.5771/9783465145950}}</ref>|doctoral_students=|notable_ideas=|spouse=|education=Humboldt University (PhD)|awards=|website=}}{{Short description|German philosopher (born 1972)}}
'''Dina Emundts''' (born 1972) is a German philosopher and university lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2016 |title=Emundts, Dina, Prof. Dr. |url=https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institut/mitarbeiter/professuren/emundts/index.html |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=Freie Universität Berlin |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunk.de |date=December 23, 2017 |title=Reihe: Fragen nach Identität - Steckt Deutschland im Identitätskonflikt? |url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/reihe-fragen-nach-identitaet-steckt-deutschland-im-100.html |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=Deutschlandfunk |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hegel im Fokus Ausgabe 6 "Erfahren und Erkennen" |url=https://www.stadtpalais-stuttgart.de/mediathek/hegel-im-fokus-ausgabe-6-erfahren-und-erkennen |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart |language=de}}</ref> Since 2017, she's been the president of the International Hegel Association succeeding Axel Honneth.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=September 11, 2020 |title=War Hegel ein Rassist? Philosophen streiten bei Festakt |url=https://www.diepresse.com/5865702/war-hegel-ein-rassist-philosophen-streiten-bei-festakt |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=Die Presse |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Internationale Hegelvereinigung e.V. |url=https://hegelvereinigung.org/ |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=Internationale Hegelvereinigung e.V. |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=News: New Vorstand of the Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung/ Neuer Vorstand der Internationalen Hegel-Vereinigung/ Nouveau Vorstand de l’Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung {{!}} hegelpd |url=https://www.hegelpd.it/hegel/news-new-vorstand-of-the-internationale-hegel-vereinigung-neuer-vorstand-der-internationalen-hegel-vereinigung-nouveau-vorstand-de-linternationale-hegel-vereinigung/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Education== From 1991 to 1998, she studied philosophy and German Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. After completing her M.A. in 1998, with the thesis ''Kants Geschichtsphilosophie'' (Kant's philosophy of history). In 1998 she received a scholarship from the Istituto Italiano per gli studii filosofici. From 1998 to 2010, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the department of Rolf-Peter Horstmann. She completed her doctorate in July 2003 at the Humboldt University with a thesis on Kant's philosophy of nature (''Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum'').
==Career== She held a DFG fellowship from 2007 to 2010 with the project Resistance in Hegel and Peirce. In 2007 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at New York University. In 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. In the summer semester of 2009, she substituted for Ludwig Siep at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Münster. In the winter semester 2009/2010, she held the chair of Birgit Sandkaulen at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Jena. After completing her habilitation at Humboldt University in 2010 with the thesis ''Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit'', she taught from 2010 to 2016 as professor of philosophy and philosophy of science with a special focus on the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science of the understanding sciences (Wissenschaftstheorie der verstehenden Wissenschaften) at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz.<ref name=":0" />
Since 2016, she has been Professor of history of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hegel-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 2021 an Professorin Béatrice Longuenesse verliehen – Metropoljournal.com |url=https://www.metropoljournal.com/lokales/baden-wuerttemberg2/25331-hegel%E2%80%90preis-der-landeshauptstadt-stuttgart-2021-an-professorin-b%C3%A9atrice-longuenesse-verliehen |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=www.metropoljournal.com}}</ref>
Emundts 2012 book ''Erfahren und Erkennen: Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit'' is the revised version of her ''Habilitationsschrift'' from 2009, in which she puts forward her interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy. The book is mainly focused on Hegel's ''Phenomenology of Spirit''. According to Emundt: "for Hegel, truth can not be purely conceptual", but the non-conceptual element belonging to experience, is necessary, since conceptual principles can only be developed, when there is something external to them, that can be realized according to those principles. In refining what has been said about the first chapter of the ''Phenomenology'', Emundt argues that the "Sense Certainty" position fails, not because it's committed to making non-conceptual reference, to singular items of sensory experience, but because it can not assert that an object exists, without referring to it in an extended period of time, and thereby making it universal. In the case of "Perception" chapter, the position similarly fails, not because of the contradiction between an object and its properties, but "a universal that perseveres despite the diversity of the singular". In the book Emundts also criticizes Kant's philosophy, according to which our knowledge of objects becomes infallible. The book has been reviewed by Angelica Nuzzo,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nuzzo |first=Angelica |last2=Emundts |first2=Dina |date=2015 |title=Review of Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit, EmundtsDina |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26595917 |journal=Hegel-Studien |volume=49 |pages=212–214 |issn=0073-1587}}</ref> Brady Bowman,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bowman |first=Brady |author-link=Brady Bowman |title=Erfahren und Erkennen: Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/erfahren-und-erkennen-hegels-theorie-der-wirklichkeit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729141805/https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/erfahren-und-erkennen-hegels-theorie-der-wirklichkeit/ |archive-date=2024-07-29 |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |language=en-US}}</ref> Holger Glinka<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glinka |first=Holger |date=2013 |title=Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXIII (2013) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43038960 |journal=Archives de Philosophie |volume=76 |issue=4 |pages=691–724 |issn=0003-9632}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2013-11-12 |title=Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXIII (2013) |url=https://shs.cairn.info/revue-archives-de-philosophie-2013-4-page-691 |journal=Archives de philosophie |language=fr |volume=76 |issue=4 |pages=691–724 |doi=10.3917/aphi.764.0691 |issn=0003-9632|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and Eva Deitert.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Deitert |first=Eva |date=2014-01-23 |title=Dina Emundts: Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit |url=https://zfphl.org/article/view/35322 |journal=Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur |language=de |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=75–81 |doi=10.21827/zfphl.2.1.35322 |issn=2198-0209|doi-access=free }}</ref>
== Writings (selection) ==
=== In English === * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290813 |title=Self, World, and Art: Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel |publisher=De Gruyter |year=2013 |doi=10.1515/9783110290813 |isbn=9783110290813 |editor-last1=Emundts |editor-first1=Dina }}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=RIZZO |first=Remy |date=2014-10-29 |title=Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXIV (2014) |url=https://shs.cairn.info/revue-archives-de-philosophie-2014-4-page-687 |journal=Archives de philosophie |language=fr |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=687–719 |doi=10.3917/aphi.774.0687 |issn=0003-9632}}</ref>
=== In German === * with Rolf-Peter Horstmann: ''Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Eine Einführung''. Stuttgart 2002, {{ISBN|3-15-018167-4}}. * ''Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum. Zur Rolle des Nachlaßwerkes für die Grundlegung der empirischen Physik''. Berlin 2004, {{ISBN|3-11-018052-9}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Watkins |first=Eric |date=2008 |title=Kants Übergangskonzeption im ‘Opus Postumum’, by Dina Emundts |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00316_2.x |journal=European Journal of Philosophy |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=332–336 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00316_2.x |issn=1468-0378|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Theorie der Wirklichkeit''. Frankfurt am Main 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-465-03760-6}}. 2. Auflage (= Klostermann Rote Reihe 145) Frankfurt am Main 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-465-04595-3}}. * as editor with Sally Sedgwick: ''Der deutsche Idealismus und die Rationalisten. German Idealism and the Rationalists''. Berlin 2019, {{ISBN|3-11-064826-1}}.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institut/mitarbeiter/professuren/emundts/index.html Dina Emundts] in fu-berlin.de * {{German National Library portal|123900859}}
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