Eugen Fischer

This graduate textbook provides a basic introduction to experimental philosophy (x-phi). In nine chapters, different methods and tools used in X-Phi are explained, spanning quantitative vignette studies, interactive experiments, corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experiments as well as qualitative interview studies. Each chapter introduces a specific experimental method by means of a case study in an easily accessible way and covers the whole research process from the development of a research question to the interpretation of the data.

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind and perception, and on thinkers including Locke, Berkeley and Ayer, the book demonstrates how such autonomous habits of thought systematically generate unsound intuitions and philosophical delusions, whose clash with reality, or among each other, gives rise to ill-motivated but maddening problems. The book re-examines models of therapeutic philosophy, due to Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and develops an approach that may let us overcome philosophical delusions and the problems they engender. In this way, the book explains where and why therapy in called for in philosophy, and develops techniques to carry it out.

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind and perception, and on thinkers including Locke, Berkeley and Ayer, the book demonstrates how such autonomous habits of thought systematically generate unsound intuitions and philosophical delusions, whose clash with reality, or among each other, gives rise to ill-motivated but maddening problems. The book re-examines models of therapeutic philosophy, due to Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and develops an approach that may let us overcome philosophical delusions and the problems they engender. In this way, the book explains where and why therapy in called for in philosophy, and develops techniques to carry it out.

Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit war, das Kohlenstoffnanor hrenwachstum im elektrischen Feld zu untersuchen und gezielt in einer CVD-Anlage zu steuern. Der Feldverlauf zwischen den Elektroden wurde auf unterschiedlichen Substraten simuliert. Daraufhin wurde eine passende Struktur hergestellt, die es erm glichte, mit Hilfeeiner Spannungsquelle ein elektrisches Feld anzulegen, um Kohlenstoffnanor hren auszurichten.Durch Variation der Einflussfaktoren (Substrat, Elektrodenmaterial, Eisendicke, Wachstumstemperatur, Wachstumszeit, Feldst rke und Potential) wurde das Wachstum der Kohlenstoffnanor hren (CNTs) zur gezielten Herstellung einzelner, extrem langer, ausgerichteter CNTs optimiert.Zur besseren Kontrolle der gewachsenen CNTs wurde ein einfacher Aufbau zur Ausnutzung des Potentialkontrasts mittels REM (Rasterelektronenmikroskop) realisiert. Damit war es m glich, sehr interessante Bilder zu erzeugen und den Einfluss der einzelnen Parameter zu dokumentieren.Es ist gelungen, extrem lange, ausgerichtete CNTs von 20 Mikrometern L nge in guter Qualit t (Ramanspektrum) und mit extrem hoher Ausbeute (40%) herzustellen. Die L nge und die Ausbeute der einzelnen, ausgerichteten Nanotubes ist dabei einzigartig und anderweitig meines Wissens nach nicht zu finden. Weiterhin wurde ein Transistor auf CNT Basis realisiert und die Kennlinie aufgenommen.Diese Arbeit beinhaltet viele Bilder und Schritt f r Schritt Anleitungen mit den zugeh rigen Rezepten die n tig sind um die Ergebnisse zu reproduzieren.