The Center for Metaphilosophical Research (CMPHR) is a higher research and teaching institution. It is currently not affiliated with any country or university. It collaborates with German universities and welcomes international cooperation. The Center aims to promote the concept of metaphilosophically informed philosophy as a new paradigm for doing, teaching, studying, and managing philosophy. The CMPHR initiates and supports theoretical, practical, historical, and aesthetic discourses on philosophy and the implementation of metaphilosophical knowledge in philosophical inquiries. One of the current significant tasks is the edition of the first general handbook in metaphilosophy (Springer/Metzler, 2024-2026). The Center will organize conferences and workshops, summer schools, and courses.
The Center roughly follows the line drawn in Lewin’s work “Metaphilosophy as a Unified Discipline”: It is open to different discourse formations and is not limited to any school or tradition. The CMPHR is also interested in analyzing and preventing structural epistemic and rational injustice in philosophy in general and professional academic philosophy in particular.
History
The idea for the CMPHR was born during two research projects of Michael Lewin between 2021 and 2023 and the planning phase of the “Handbuch Metaphilosophie” with Daniel Minkin. Many international scholars working in the area of metaphilosophy, including Nicholas Rescher and Timothy Williamson, have supported the initiative. The conference “What is Metaphilosophy?” (2022), co-organized with Richard Raatzsch, the author of “Philosophiephilosophie”, can be considered the first conference of the Center.
People
Director: Michael Lewin
Administrative Assistant: Polina Lewin (M.A.)
Associated Members:
Daniel Minkin (co-editor of Handbuch Metaphilosophie)
Network
Our network is open to scholars engaged in metaphilosophical research.