Bernhard Lauth

Bernhard Lauth (born May 31, 1956 in Munich ) is a science philosopher and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Among other things, he works in the areas of logic and philosophy of science , the verification and confirmation of scientific hypotheses, neural networks and mind - brain - cognition. He is considered a representative of the structuralist concept of theory in the theory of science.

Lauth advocates a "scientifically informed philosophy that accepts the primacy of empirical methods". By this he understands a philosophy that positively received the neuroscientific investigations by Benjamin Libet , Wolf Singer , Gerhard Roth and Wolfgang Prinz on the subject of free will. According to Lauth, all aspects of our spiritual life can be explained scientifically.

Works

Bernhard Lauth, Jamel Sareiter: Scientific knowledge. An introduction to the history of ideas in the theory of science , Mentis-Verlag, Paderborn 2002.
B. Lauth: Descartes in the rearview mirror. The body-soul dualism and the scientific worldview , Mentis-Verlag, Paderborn, 2006.

Individual evidence

↑ R. Lauth: The Dilemma of the Humanities, in: C. Lubkoll / O. Wischmeyer (Ed.), Ethical Turn? Humanities in a new responsibility. Munich / Paderborn 2009. 32.

Web links

Literature by and about Bernhard Lauth in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage of B. Lauth at the LMU

personal data
SURNAME	Lauth, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German science theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich , Bavaria

[1] R. Lauth: The Dilemma of the Humanities, in: C. Lubkoll / O. Wischmeyer (Ed.), Ethical Turn? Humanities in a new responsibility. Munich / Paderborn 2009. 32.