Andreas Kindler

Research Focus: Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Metaphysics (especially of artefacts), Theory of Science, Aesthetics, Poetology
Areas of Interest: technê-literature, Ancient Medicine, History of Science, Art History, Literary Studies and History of Literature
 

My PhD thesis is concerned with exploring the scientific organization of Aristotle’s research on poetry. Accordingly, my aim is first to conduct a survey of Aristotle’s extant and lost works that investigate the domain of poetry and to reconstruct their intertextual and systematic relations. Second, it will be shown how fundamental Aristotelian notions (hylomorphism, four causes, essentialism) are modified and employed in the Poetics as a productive science to ensure a methodical presentation of the achievements of Aristotle’s prior research.
The intended results of my project include a more precise model of Aristotle’s notion of productive sciences and crafts, a deeper understanding of the features and structure of the Poetics due to an innovative perspective on the text as well as a more thorough reconstruction of its systematic context in the Aristotelian oeuvre. 

2023 PhD Thesis, Working Title “Aristotle’s Scientific Investigation of Poetry” (Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen)
2021–2023 M.Ed. Philosophy/Ethics, German, Educational Sciences (University of Tübingen)
2015–2021 Parallel Degree B.A. German Literature, Philosophy and B.Ed. Philosophy/Ethics, German, Educational Sciences (University of Konstanz)
 

Organization

• 02.05.–04.05.2025 German Graduate Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Co-organized with Arianna Castelli (LMU) and William Nolan (LMU).
• 04.04.–06.04.2024 2nd Berlin – Munich – Tübingen Graduate Workshop on Ancient & Medieval Philosophy 2024, Universität Tübingen. Co-organized with Yan Lu (HU Berlin), Lucas Alvarez Maldonado (LMU), and Alfonso Herreros (LMU).

Talks

• Types and Strategies of Explanation in Aristotle’s Poetics. International Aristotelian Conference, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, 02.07.–04.07.2025.
• The Function of λέξις in Aristotle’s Poetics. Style and Substance: Lexis and its Application in Aristotelian Philosophy, University of Durham, 11.06.–13.06.2025.
• 16.11.2024 Contextualizing Aristotle’s Poetics. Antike-Kolloquium Südwest, University of Tübingen, 15.11.–16.11.2024.
• 18.10.2024 Aristotelian Sciences, Knowledge-that, and Knowledge-how. 2nd International Conference on Ancient Philosophy and Other, University of Split, 17.10.–18.10.2024.
• 06.06.2024 Aristotle’s Applications of Division and Definition. The Hunt for the Essence: A TIDA Workshop on Posterior Analytics II.13, University of Tübingen, 05.06.–06.06.2024.
• 05.04.2024 Metaphysical Problems in Aristotle’s Poetics. 2nd Berlin – Munich – Tübingen Graduate Workshop on Ancient & Medieval Philosophy 2024, University of Tübingen, 04.04.–06.04.2024.
• 16.02.2024 The Method of Aristotle’s Poetics. Philosophical Methods in Plato and Aristotle. At the Crossroads of Philosophy of Science, University of Köln, 15.02.–16.02.2024.
• 12.01.2024 Aristoteles' Poetik und die konzeptuelle Priorität der Essenz (Aristotle’s Poetics and the Conceptual Priority of the Essence). 43. Metageitnia, University of Konstanz, 12.01.–13.01.2024.
• 18.11.2023 Form, Function, and Essence: Aristotle’s Poetics and the Ontology of Artefacts. Workshop Definitions between Plato and Aristotle, Université de Fribourg, 17.11.–18.11.2023.
• 06.07.2023 Aristotle’s Poetics as a Productive Science. Early Lunch Philosophy, University of Konstanz, 06.07.2023.
• 25.04.2023 Select interpretative questions. Conceptions of Body & Matter in Ancient Philosophy. A TIDA Workshop around Tony Long’s Translation and Commentary on Plotinus, Ennead II 4, University of Tübingen, 25.04–26.04.2023.
• 21.04.2023 Hylomorphism in Aristotle’s Poetics. The First Berlin-Munich-Tübingen Graduate Workshop on Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, HU Berlin, 20.–22.04.2023.