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Prof. Dr. Raphael van Riel

Geisteswissenschaften / Philosophie

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 V04 D21
Phone
0201-183-3022
E-Mail
raphael.vanriel@uni-due.de
Website
https://raphaelvanriel.wordpress.com/
Office hours
WS 2025/26: Terminvergabe durch Fr. Monka, iris.monka@uni-due.de

Functions

  • Geschäftsführende/r Direktor/in, Philosophie

  • Universitätsprofessor/in, Philosophie

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • van Riel, Raphael
    Free Will and Two Types of Determinism
    In: The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 76, 2022, Nr. 1, pp. 95 – 113
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Representationalist physicalism
    In: Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 88, 2022, Nr. 5, pp. 887 – 898
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Two Originals, One Artwork : On the Ontology of Originals and Improvisations
    In: Estetika: The (Central) European Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 59, 2022, Nr. 2, pp. 119 – 134
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Weberian ideal type construction as concept replacement
    In: European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30, 2022, Nr. 4, pp. 1358 – 1377
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Erklärungen und Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse : Eine Kartierung
    In: Unikate: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, 2021, Nr. 56 : "Junge Wilde" - Die nächste Generation, pp. 84 – 93
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Eder, Anna-Maria A.; Lawler, Insa; van Riel, Raphael
    Philosophical methods under scrutiny : introduction to the special issue philosophical methods
    In: Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 197, 2020, Nr. 3, pp. 915 – 923
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Lying beyond a conversational purpose : A critique of Stokke's assertion-based account of lying
    In: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 116, 2019, Nr. 2, pp. 106 – 118
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Future-Dependent Beliefs
    In: Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 55, 2017, Nr. 4, pp. 500 – 520
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Mental Disorder and the Indirect Construction of Social Facts
    In: Journal of Social Ontology, Vol. 3, 2017, Nr. 1, pp. 27 – 48
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    What is the Problem of Explanation and Modeling?
    In: Acta Analytica, Vol. 32, 2017, Nr. 3, pp. 263 – 275
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Enhancing Beyond What Ought to be the Case - A Conceptual Clarification
    In: Bioethics, Vol. 30, 2016, Nr. 6, pp. 384 – 388
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    If you understand, you won't be lucky
    In: Grazer philosophische Studien, Vol. 93, 2016, Nr. 2, pp. 196 – 211
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Leibniz on freedom, divine foreknowledge, and necessitation without dependence
    In: Studia Leibnitiana, Vol. 48, 2016, Nr. 2, pp. 178 – 200
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Real Knowledge Undermining Luck
    In: Logos & Episteme, Vol. 7, 2016, Nr. 3, pp. 325 – 344
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    What is constructionism in psychiatry? : From social causes to psychiatric classification
    In: Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol. 7, 2016, pp. 57
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Modelle und Interpretationen : Grenzen eines allgemeinen Modellbegriffs ; [Kommentar zu Bernd Mahr's 'Modelle und ihre Befragbarkeit']
    In: Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik, Vol. 26, 2015, Nr. 3, pp. 399 – 401
  • van Riel, Raphael
    The content of model-based information
    In: Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 192, 2015, Nr. 12, pp. 3839 – 3858
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael; Eronen, Markus
    Understanding through modeling : the explanatory power of inadequate representation
    In: Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 192, 2015, Nr. 12, pp. 3777 – 3780
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Prophets against Ockhamism : or: why the hard fact/soft fact distinction is irrelevant to the problem of foreknowledge
    In: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 75, 2014, Nr. 2, pp. 119 – 135
    DOI
  • Reuter, Kevin; Kirfel, Lara; van Riel, Raphael; Barlassina, Luca
    The good, the bad, and the timely : how temporal order and moral judgment influence causal selection
    In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 5, 2014, Nr. November, pp. 1336
    DOI (Open Access)
  • van Riel, Raphael
    The natures of types and tokens : On the metaphysical commitments of non-reductive physicalism
    In: Metaphysica, Vol. 15, 2014, Nr. 1, pp. 219 – 237
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Identity, asymmetry, and the relevance of meanings for models of reduction
    In: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 64, 2013, Nr. 4, pp. 747 – 761
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Pains, pills and properties : functionalism and the first-order/second-order distinction
    In: Dialectica: International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, 2012, Nr. 4, pp. 543 – 562
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Cognitive significance and epistemic intensions
    In: Logique et Analyse, Vol. 54, 2011, Nr. 216, pp. 503 – 516
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Identity-Based reduction and reductive explanation
    In: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Vol. 47-48 (2010-2011), 2011, Nr. 1-2, pp. 185 – 221
    Online Full Text
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Nagelian reduction beyond the Nagel model
    In: Philosophy of Science, Vol. 78, 2011, Nr. 3, pp. 353 – 375
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    David Woodruff Smith, Amie L. Thomasson (Hrsg.): Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind : Rezensiert von Raphael van Riel
    In: Philosophiques, Vol. 36, 2009, Nr. 1, L’idéalisme britannique, pp. 257 – 259
    DOI
  • Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael; Sollberger, Michael
    Second European Graduate School : Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Science
    In: Abstracta: linguagem, mente e ação, Vol. 5, 2009, Nr. 2, pp. 113 – 115
    Online Full Text
  • van Riel, Raphael
    On how we perceive the social world : criticizing Gallagher’s view on direct perception and outlining an alternative
    In: Consciousness and cognition, Vol. 17, 2008, Nr. 2, pp. 544 – 552
    DOI

    • Articles

  • van Riel, Raphael
    Theorie-Theorie, Simulationstheorie und der Ansatz der direkten Wahrnehmung : übertriebener Kognitivismus einerseits, naiver Naturalismus andererseits?
    XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie "Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft", 15. bis 19. September 2008, Essen,
    2008
    Online Full Text

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Hufendiek, Rebekka; James, Daniel; van Riel, Raphael
    Introduction
    In: Social Functions in Philosophy: Metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives / Hufendiek, Rebekka; James, Daniel; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 1 – 17
    DOI

    • Reviews

  • van Riel, Raphael
    Jason Stanley: How Propaganda Works. Princeton University Press, 2015. Hardcover ISBN 9780691164427
    In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Dordrecht; Norwell, Mass.: Springer, Vol. 19, 2016, Nr. 3, pp. 817 – 819
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Weisberg, Michael: Simulation and Similarity. Using Models to Under­stand the World
    In: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur. Groningen: University of Groningen Press (UGP), Vol. 1, 2013, Nr. 1, pp. 60 – 70
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Wohlrapp, Harald: „Der Begriff des Arguments. Über die Beziehung zwischen Wissen, Forschen, Glauben, Subjektivität und Vernunft" : Rezensiert von Raphael van Riel
    2008
    Online Full Text

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • van Riel, Raphael
    Nagel on Idealization in Science
    In: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 111 – 130
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    In search of the missing mechanism : Functional explanation in social science
    In: Social functions in philosophy: Metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives / Hufendiek, Rebekka; James, Daniel; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 70 – 92
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Reduktion und Emergenz
    In: Handbuch Metaphysik / Schrenk, Markus (Eds.). Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 285 – 291
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael; Schildmann, Jan
    Enhancement der Moral : Zur Einführung
    In: Moralisches Enhancement / van Riel, Raphael; Di Nucci, Ezio; Schildmann, Jan (Eds.). Paderborn: Mentis, 2014, pp. 9 – 17
  • van Riel, Raphael
    McDowell's Frege
    In: Die Philosophie John McDowells: ein Handbuch / Lauer, David; Barth, Christian (Eds.). Paderborn: Mentis, 2014, pp. 203 – 222
  • van Riel, Raphael
    Personal Identity
    In: Identity, Language, and Mind: an Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry / Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.). Münster: Mentis/CSLI Publishing, 2012, pp. 109 – 128
  • Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael
    Speaking and Thinking About the Self
    In: Identity, Language, and Mind: an Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry / Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.). Münster: Mentis/CSLI Publishing, 2012, pp. 1 – 10
  • Zenker, Frank; Gottschall, Christian; Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael; Vosgerau, Gottfried
    Designing an introductory course to elementary symbolic logic within the blackboard e-learning environment
    In: Tools for Teaching Logic: Third International Congress, TICTTL 2011, Salamanca, Spain, June 1-4, 2011 : Proceedings / 3rd International Congress, TICTTL 2011, 1.-4. Juni 2011, Salamanca, Spain. Berlin: Springer, 2011, pp. 249 – 255
    DOI

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Hufendiek, Rebekka; James, Daniel; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.)
    Social Functions in Philosophy : Metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives
    New York: Routledge, 2020(Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy)
    DOI
  • van Riel, Raphael; Schildmann, Jan; Di Nucci, Ezio (Eds.)
    Enhancement der Moral
    Münster: mentis, 2015
  • van Riel, Raphael
    The Concept of Reduction
    Cham: Springer, 2014
    (Philosophical Studies Series ; 121)
    DOI
  • Newen, Albert; van Riel, Raphael (Eds.)
    Identity, Language and Mind : An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry
    Stanford: CSLI, 2012
    (CSLI lecture notes ; 203)
  • van Riel, Raphael; Newen, Albert (Eds.)
    Reduction in the Philosophy of Mind
    Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2010
    (Philosophia Naturalis ; 47/48, H. 1/2)
    Online Full Text

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • van Riel, Raphael; Van Gulick, Robert
    Scientific Reduction
    In: The Stanford Encyplopedia of Philosophy / Zalta, Edward N. (Eds.). Stanford: Stanford University, 2014
    Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Wohlrapp, H.; van Riel, Raphael
    Schluss
    In: Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe: 3. (Quantität - Zweifel) / Kolmer, Petra; Wildfeuer, Armin (Eds.). Freiburg: Alber, 2011, pp. 1919 – 1934

    • Lectures

  • van Riel, Raphael
    Falsche Fragen, Verstehenslücken und philosophische Analysen
    Collegium Gissenum 2016 ; Giessen, Universität, 07.07.2016,
    2017
    Online Full Text