Andreas Huettemann

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Andreas Hüttemann (born March 2, 1964 in Dorsten ) is a German philosopher and university professor. He teaches philosophy at the University of Cologne .

Life

Hüttemann studied physics, philosophy and mathematics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the University of Cambridge and the Princeton University from 1984 to 1993 . In 1991 he received his diploma in physics and in 1993 his master's degree in philosophy in Heidelberg. He then worked as a research assistant at the Philosophical Department of Heidelberg University until 1998. In 1996 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on idealizations and the goal of physics . Until 2002 he was a research assistant at Bielefeld University . There he completed his habilitation in 2001 with the work Micro-explanation and the Multi-layered Conception of Reality . From 2002 to 2004 he was a Heisenberg fellow . In 2004 he took over a C3 professorship for philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (Westphalia) . From 2006 he taught theoretical philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Since 2010 he has been Professor of Theoretical Philosophy of Modern Times and Modernity at the University of Cologne. In 2013 Andreas Hüttemann was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

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Monographs
  • Idealizations and the goal of physics. An examination of realism, empiricism and constructivism in the philosophy of science. de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-015281-9 (dissertation)
Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry by Andreas Hüttemann (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.