Dimitri Ginev

Dimitri Ginev
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Born	1956
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Philosophy of Science Continental philosophy
Institutions	University of Sofia Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh University of Konstanz
Main interests	Hermeneutics Cognitive Existentialism Human Sciences
Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Georg Misch, Patrick Aidan Heelan, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Ludwik Fleck

Dimitri Ginev (*1956 in Varna, Bulgaria-†5 June 2021 in Sophia, Bulgaria) is a professor of history of discourses in cultural studies.

Life

Dimitri Ginev Habilitation at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1987 with a thesis on the Hermeneutics aspects of post-empirical philosophy of science. He was throughout his life, starting in 1989, Professor of the History of Discourses in Cultural Studies at Sofia University.

Career

In 1990, Ginev was a visiting Fellow (academic) at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. In the 1990s, Ginev participated in a range of research projects conducted at the University of Marburg, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and the Ruhr University Bochum. Ginev was also a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University of Berlin, a Fulbright Program at the Catholic University of America, and a Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. In 1992, Ginev founded the international journal Studia Culturologica.

A book collection (or Festschrift) in his honor, Das interpretative Universum, published on the occasion of his 60th birthday was edited by Paula Angelova, Jassen Andreev, and Emil Lensky. Contributors included Nicholas Rescher, Helmuth Vetter, Gunter Scholtz, Dean Komel, Peter Janich, Babette Babich, Jean Grondin, Giovanni Leghissa, among others.

Interests

Ginev's research interests were multifarious, relating to the traditions of hermeneutic Phenomenology (philosophy) and Post-metaphysical philosophy, philosophy of science, including philosophy of social science, and non-analytic philosophy of science, hermeneutic theory of practices and Form of life (philosophy)|forms of life, cognitive existentialism, linguistic and language hermeneutics, and the methodology of double hermeneutics.

Books

English

• A Passage to a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1997).

Essays in Hermeneutics of Science (London: Routledge 2018 [1997]).

• Critique of Epistemological Reason (Sofia: Akademischer Verlag 2000).

• The Context of Constitution. Beyond the Edge of Justification (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) (Frankfurt am Main: Springer 2006).

• Steps in Overcoming Scientism (Vienna/Sofia: Idea 2007).

• The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press 2011).

• Practices and Possibilities (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2013).

• Debating Cognitive Existentialism (Leiden: Brill 2015).

• Hermeneutic Realism. Reality Within Scientific Inquiry (Frankfurt am Main: Springer, 2016).

Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices: Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory (London/New York: Routledge 2018).

• Scientific Conceptualization and Ontological Difference (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2019).

German

Grundriss einer kritischen Wissenschaftstheorie (New York/Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1989).

Die Mehrdimensionalität geisteswissenschaftlicher Erfahrung (Essen: Blaue Eule 1995).

• Transformationen der Hermeneutik (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2008).

• Das hermeneutische Projekt Georg Mischs (Wien: Passagen Verlag 2011).

French

Entre Hermeneutique et Anthropologie (Bern/Wien/Paris: Peter Lang 2004).

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