Levels: Descriptive, Explanatory, and Ontological

The series "CAS Showcase" invites professors from LMU to talk about their discipline's State of the Art.| Roland Wenzlhuemer is Professor for Global History at LMU Munich.

The term "diversity" is nowadays on everyone's lips and has become a key concept in the governance of institutions. The task of the panel discussion at CAS is to scientifically enlighten the concept of "diversity", by considering its changeful history and analysing its different areas of applicatio…

Christian List focuses in his CAS-lecture on the category of levels in philosophy of science. He develops different perspectives against the background of reasoning and argumentation in general. | Christian List is Professor for Political Science and Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

Wo immer es um bewusste Formung von Prosa geht, stehen Fragen der Bindung und Verknüpfung zur Diskussion. Dass Prosa eine freie bzw. ungebundene Rede ist, bedeutet nicht, dass sie sich – wie es bei Cicero heißt – "verflüchtigt und verirrt"; vielmehr weiß sie sich "auch ohne Fesseln selbst das recht…