University of Vienna

Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy

Other Affiliations: University of Vienna, Institute Vienna Circle

Professor for Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology

About

I trained as a philosopher and historian of science at the universities of Berlin (Free University), Toronto, Jyvaskyla, Helsinki, and Oulu (Finland).
  1989: PhD "Language as Calculus v Language as Universal Medium" (Supervisor: Jaakko Hintikka)
  1993-1997: Lecturer, later Reader, in the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh
  1996-1997: Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich (in the research group of Gerd Gigerenzer)
  1997-2009: Lecturer, later Reader, and from 2003 Professor, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
  2001-2002: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
  2008-: Elected Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  2008-2009: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Helsinki Centre for Advanced Studies
  2009-: Professor for Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology, University of Vienna (and Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

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Upcoming talks:


2.3.2012 University of Vienna, Inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung)
      5pm, Kleiner Festsaal

      "Relativismus und Skeptizismus"

8.-10.3.2012  Berlin (Meeting on Benjamin and the history of science)

      "Benjamin and the history of science"

3.4.2012 Paris (CNRS)

      "Benjamin and the history of science"

18. & 19.4.2012 University of Munich, Department of Philosophy

      "Wittgenstein on Disagreement"

      "ON CERTAINTY and the Foundations of Mathematics"   

8.5.2012 University of Hertfordshire (8th Lecture of the British Wittgenstein Society)

      "ON CERTAINTY and the Foundations of Mathematics"

9.5.2012 University of East Anglia, Norwich, Department of Philosophy, Wittgenstein Seminar

      "ON CERTAINTY and (the Epistemology of) Disagreements"

10.5.2012 Pembroke College, Cambridge

      TBA

24.-26.5.2012 University of Vienna, Workshop on collective intentionality and group agency

26.-27.6.2012 Vienna, Conference on Wittgenstein on Colour

28.-30.6.2012 Universities of Bologna and Modena: Conference of the European Epistemology Network

12.9.2012  University of California at Berkeley; lecture co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology and the Working Group in History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science

25.-28.9.2012 Feyerabend Conference in Berlin (pending funding decision of the DFG)

February 2013 "Objectivity" Conference in Taiwan; three lectures in Bergen (Norway)

4.-6.4.2013 Meeting at the Humboldt Unversity in Berlin on "Was bedeutet der aktuellen Philosophie ihre Geschichte? Methodologische Perspektiven"

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