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Hermann Vetter (born c. 1933[1]) is a German academic and translator who has made many works of English-language philosophy available in German. He specialized in sociology of knowledge and social psychology. His academic career was interrupted by the "student revolutions" of the 1960s.[2]

Bibliography

As translator

  • Karl R. Popper, Objektive Erkenntnis. Ein evolutionärer Entwurf (Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach). Hoffmann und Campe, 1974.
  • Robert Nozick, Anarchie, Staat, Utopia (Anarchy, State, and Utopia). Moderne Verlags Gesellschaft, 1976.
  • Thomas S. Kuhn, Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Suhrkamp, 1976. With Kurt Simon.
  • Michael Sukale (ed.), Moderne Sprachphilosophie. Hoffmann und Campe, 1976.
  • W. V. O. Quine, Die Wurzeln der Referenz (The Roots of Reference). Suhrkamp, 1976.
  • Thomas S. Kuhn, Die Entstehung des Neuen: Studien zur Struktur der Wissenschaftsgeschichte (The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change). Suhrkamp, 1978.
  • Erving Goffman, Rahmen-Analyse (Frame Analysis). Suhrkamp, 1979.
  • John Rawls, Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit (A Theory of Justice). Suhrkamp, 1979.
  • Paul Feyerabend, Wider den Methodenzwang. Skizzen einer anarchistischen Erkenntnistheorie (Against Method). Suhrkamp, 1983.
  • Anthony Kenny, Wittgenstein. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1989.
  • Anthony Kenny, ed., Illustrierte Geschichte der westlichen Philosophie (The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy). Campus Verlag, 1995.
  • Peter Singer, Wie sollen wir leben? Ethik in einer egoistischen Zeit (How Are We to Live?). Harald Fischer, 1996.
  • Will Kymlicka, Politische Philosophie heute: Eine Einführung (Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction). Campus, 1997.
  • Richard Rorty, Stolz auf unser Land. Die amerikanische Linke und der Patriotismus (Achieving Our Country). Suhrkamp, 1999.
  • Robert Brandom, Expressive Vernunft: Begründung, Repräsentation und diskursive Festlegung (Making It Explicit). Suhrkamp, 2000. With Eva Gilmer.

As author

  • Hermann Vetter, Wahrscheinlichkeit und Logischer Spielraum - Eine Untersuchung zur induktiven Logik. Mohr. 1967.
  • Hermann Vetter, "Logical Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and the Problem of Induction". Synthese 20 (1) 1969:56 - 71.
  • Hermann Vetter, "The Production of Children as a Problem of Utilitarian Ethics". Inquiry 12 (1-4) 1969:445-447.
  • Hermann Vetter, "Utilitarianism and New Generations". Mind 80 (318) 1971:301-302.

References

  1. ^ Christine Keck, Hermann Vetter und sein eigener Wille, Badische Zeitung, 12 April 2014. Accessed 21 November 2016.
  2. ^ Hans Albert, In Kontroversen verstrickt: vom Kulturpessimismus zum kritischen Rationalismus at Google Books, Vienna and Berlin, 2007, p. 103.