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Karl-Otto Apel was born on 15 March, 1922 in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a German philosopher (1922–2017). Discover Karl-Otto Apel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 15 March 1922
Birthday 15 March
Birthplace Düsseldorf, Germany
Date of death 15 May, 2017
Died Place Niedernhausen, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1922

Karl-Otto Apel (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 called "transcendental pragmatics."

Apel grew up during the political crises of the Weimar Republic.

1940

In 1940, he was a war volunteer with his entire graduating class.

1945

After the Second World War, Apel studied from 1945 to 1950 at the University of Bonn, first history and intellectual history, before he committed himself as a student of Erich Rothacker on philosophy.

1950

In 1950, he received his doctorate from Bonn with a thesis on Martin Heidegger.

1961

Apel was appointed lecturer at the University of Mainz in 1961.

1962

He was a full professor of philosophy at the University of Kiel from 1962 to 1969, at the University of Saarbrücken from 1969 to 1972, and at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1972 to 1990.

1970

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Apel influenced other philosophers writing in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

1973

An early German-speaking adversary of so-called critical rationalism, Apel published a critique of the philosophy of Karl Popper: In Transformation der Philosophie (1973), Apel charged Popper with being guilty of, amongst other things, a pragmatic contradiction.

1989

He was made a Member of the Academia Europaea in 1989 and a Full Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in 1993.

1990

In 1990, he transferred to emeritus status.

He has held a number of visiting and guest professorships at universities around the world.

2001

In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Apel worked in ethics, the philosophy of language and human sciences.

He wrote extensively in these fields, publishing mostly in German.

Apel's work brings together the analytical and Continental philosophical traditions, especially pragmatism and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he called transcendental pragmatics (Transzendentalpragmatik).

In Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective, Apel reformulated the difference between understanding (Verstehen) and explanation (Erklärung), which originated in the hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey and interpretive sociology of Max Weber, on the basis of a Peircean-inspired transcendental-pragmatic account of language.

This account of the "lifeworld" would become an element of the theory of communicative action and discourse ethics, which Apel co-developed with Jürgen Habermas.

Strategic rationality both claim to stand in need of communicative rationality that is seen as, in several regards, more fundamental.

While sympathetic to Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action, Apel has been critical of aspects of Habermas's approach.

Apel has proposed that a theory of communication should be grounded in the transcendental-pragmatic conditions of communication.

After taking his point of departure from Apel, Habermas has moved towards a "weak transcendentalism" that is more closely tied to empirical social inquiry.

Apel also wrote works on Charles Sanders Peirce and is a past president of the C. S. Peirce Society.

2017

Apel died on 15 May 2017 at the age of 95.