Prof. Dr. Dr. Daniel von Wachter
Private Lecturer
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
Personal information
- Studied in Munich, Liechtenstein, and Innsbruck
- 1997 Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg
- 2003 D.Phil. in Theology at the University of Oxford
- 2008 Habilitation at LMU
- 2008 Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- 2013–2020 Director of the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Research interests
Areas of specialisation: metaphysics, philosophy of religion, free will, causation, laws of nature.
Historical research: Christian August Crusius, Enlightenment, unknown philosophers of the 18th and 19th century.
Further areas of interest: Austrian School of Economics, Neo-Marxism, epistemology. mind-body problem, metaethics.
Selected publications
A full list of publications, with download links, may be found on my personal website.
- Wachter, Daniel von: Die kausale Struktur der Welt: Eine philosophische Untersuchung über Verursachung, Naturgesetze, freie Handlungen, Möglichkeit und Gottes kausale Rolle in der Welt. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2009.
- Wachter, Daniel von: The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical. Organon F 26: 40-61 (2019).
- Wachter, Daniel von: Die Religionsphilosophie Richard Swinburnes, in: G. Gasser & K. Viertbauer (eds.), Handbuch Analytische Religionsphilosophie. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2019, 66-77.
- Wachter, Daniel von: Wunder verletzen die Naturgesetze nicht, in: Hg. B.P. Göcke & R. Schneider (eds.) Gottes Handeln in der Welt. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2017, 361-382.
- Wachter, Daniel von: Die Aufklärung existiert nicht, in: H. R. Yousefi (ed.), Jahrbuch des Denkens vol. 1. Verlag Bautz, 2017, 25-41.
- Wachter, Daniel von: Miracles are not violations of the laws of nature because laws do not entail regularities. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7(4), 37-60 (2015).
- Wachter, Daniel von: Kein Gehirnereignis kann ein späteres festlegen. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 66, 393-408 (2012).
- Wachter, Daniel von: Do the results of divine actions have preceding causes?. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3, 347-367 (2011).