Brigitte Falkenburg

Brigitte Falkenburg (born April 4, 1953 in Nuremberg ) is a German philosopher . From 1997 to 2019 she was professor for theoretical philosophy with a focus on philosophy of science and technology at the TU Dortmund .

academic career

After studying physics and philosophy in Erlangen , Berlin , Bielefeld and Heidelberg , with degree in physics in 1978 ( TU Berlin ), Falkenburg in 1985 at the University of Bielefeld for Dr. phil. with a thesis on natural philosophy ( Die Form der Materie. On the metaphysics of nature in Kant and Hegel ) and in 1986 in Heidelberg for Dr. rer. nat. PhD with a thesis on particle physics ( determination of nucleon structure functions from neutrino-iron scattering ).

From 1989 to 1993 Falkenburg was a research assistant at the philosophical seminar of the University of Heidelberg with Erhard Scheibe , and in 1992 she completed her (external) habilitation in Konstanz . From 1993 to 1997 she received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG and 1994/95 a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From October 1997 she was Professor of Philosophy at the TU Dortmund . From 2004 to 2012 she was also the spokesperson for the working group Philosophy in Physics ( AGPhil ) at the DPG .

In 2002 she won the Johann Joachim Becher Prize for her work “Whom does technology serve? An epistemological analysis of the ambivalences of technical progress ”. In 2012 she was accepted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Her research includes topics from natural philosophy , philosophy of science and philosophy of physics as well as modern metaphysics , epistemology and philosophy of technology .

Publications

as an author

• The form of matter. On the metaphysics of nature in Kant and Hegel. Athenaeum, Frankfurt a. M. 1987. ISBN 978-3610092115
• Particle metaphysics. For understanding reality in the philosophy of science and microphysics. BI, Mannheim 1994. 2nd, revised edition: Spectrum, Heidelberg 1995. ISBN 978-3411167814
• Kant's cosmology. The scientific revolution of natural philosophy in the 18th century. Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2000. ISBN 978-3465030065 [Review: Ed Dellian in FAZ, January 6, 2000]
• Who is the technology used for? (published by the JJBecher Foundation Speyer). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004. ISBN 978-3832906634
• Particle Metaphysics. A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality. Springer, Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3540337317
• The myth of determinism. How much does brain research explain to us? Springer, Heidelberg 2012. ISBN 978-3642250972

as editor (selection)

• (with Lorenz Krüger :) Physics, philosophy and the unity of science. Spectrum, Heidelberg 1995. ISBN 978-3860256893
• Erhard Scheibe: Between Rationalism and Empiricism. Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics. Springer, New York 2001. ISBN 978-0387985206
• Nature - technology - culture. Philosophy in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Mentis, Paderborn 2007. ISBN 978-3897855991

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release on the establishment of AGPhil , June 14, 2004.
2. ^ Falkenburg's profile at the North Rhine-Westphalia Science Academy. Retrieved June 20, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte Falkenburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Brigitte Falkenburg at the TU Dortmund
• Brigitte Falkenburg at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Working group Philosophy of Physics at the DPG
• Website on natural philosophy with the participation of B. Falkenburg