Christian Tapp

Christian Tapp (* 1975 in Oberhausen ) is a German philosopher , mathematician and Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1994 to 2001 he studied Catholic theology , philosophy and mathematics in Bonn , Münster , Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . He obtained a degree in Mathematics in 1999 ( University of Munster ), Vertiefungsfach Mathematical Logic, 2002, the licentiate in theology (University of Munster), Schwerpunktfach Philosophical Foundations of Theology, 2004, the promotion of Dr. rer. nat. at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at LMU Munich ; Dissertation on Georg Cantor and his contacts to Catholic theologians and in 2007 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Statistics at LMU Munich; Dissertation on epistemological and philosophical questions related to the Hilbert program . From 2001 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the chair for the history of natural sciences in Munich. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy at the University of Göttingen . From 2005 to 2006 he was a Fritz Thyssen Foundation research fellow at the Philosophy Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . From 2006 to 2008 he received an Emmy Noether scholarship from the German Research Foundation at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . Since May 2008 he has been leading an Emmy Noether junior research group at the Catholic theological faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2008 he was junior professor for philosophical-theological borderline questions there. Since 2013 he has been teaching as a university professor for philosophical-theological borderline questions there. From 2015 to 2019 he held an endowed professorship at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck.

Tapp wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

Web links

• Christian Tapp on the website of the University of Innsbruck