Philosopher
Karl-Otto Apel
Overview
Karl-Otto Apel (; German: [ˈaːpl̩]; 15 March 1922 – 15 May 2017) was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He specialized on the philosophy of language and was thus considered a communication theorist. He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he coined transcendental pragmatics.
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Philosophers who discussed Karl-Otto Apel
Ideas Karl-Otto Apel discusses
- Philosophy
- Verstehen
- Analytic philosophy
- Jürgen Habermas
- Karl Popper
- Max Weber
- Frankfurt School
- Lifeworld
- Continental philosophy
- World War II
- Weimar Republic
- Martin Heidegger
- Critical rationalism
- Critical theory
- Pragmatics
- Intellectual history
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Philosophy of language
- Hermeneutics
- Human science
- Ethics
- Pragmatism
- Erich Rothacker
Place in the tradition
Part of Discourse ethics.