Jens Pier

Jens Pier is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His current research focuses on metaphysics, the philosophy of self-consciousness, Kant, Wittgenstein, and the prospects for a critical philosophical methodology. In thinking about these issues, he puts special emphasis on how a proper articulation of the self-conscious structure of human mindedness might elucidate the relation between conceptions of philosophy aimed at systematicity and scientificity on the...See more

Jens Pier is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His current research focuses on metaphysics, the philosophy of self-consciousness, Kant, Wittgenstein, and the prospects for a critical philosophical methodology. In thinking about these issues, he puts special emphasis on how a proper articulation of the self-conscious structure of human mindedness might elucidate the relation between conceptions of philosophy aimed at systematicity and scientificity on the one hand, and those aimed at diagnosis, therapy, or explication on the other. See less