Felix Mühlhölzer

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Felix Mühlhölzer (* 1947 in Simbach am Inn ) is a German philosopher .

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Felix Mühlhölzer studied mathematics from 1968 to 1974 at the universities of Mainz , Bonn and Heidelberg and received his diploma in 1975 with a thesis on algebraic topology . He then studied philosophy at the University of Munich until 1980 . From 1979 to 1982 he worked on a research project of the German Research Foundation on the logical reconstruction of measurement methods in physics. In 1982, he was at the University of Munich in Stegmüller with a thesis on the concept of time in the special theory of relativity to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1984 to 1993 he was a research assistant and senior assistant at the University of Munich. In 1989 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Thomas S. Kuhn . In 1992/1993 he was also a member of a research group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University .

From 1993 to 1997 he was professor for philosophy of science and logic at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1997 he was appointed to the chair for theoretical philosophy at the University of Göttingen . He is mainly concerned with analytical philosophy , philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of physics . One focus of his research is Ludwig Wittgenstein . To this end, he received two research semesters from the German Research Foundation in 2001 . In 2016 he retired .

Together with Wolfgang Spohn, Felix Mühlhölzer is the editor of the Philosophical Impulse monograph series at the Heidelberg publishing house “Synchron”. He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal Philosophia naturalis .

Fonts

  • The concept of time in the special theory of relativity. Dissertation. University of Munich 1982. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 978-3-8204-7544-9 .
  • Objectivity and progress in knowledge. One answer to Thomas S. Kuhn. Habilitation thesis. University of Munich, 1989.
  • Willard Van Orman Quine . Partnership between philosophy and the natural sciences. In: Margot Fleischer (Ed.): Philosophers of the 20th Century. An introduction. WBG, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 978-3-534-10936-4 , pp. 57-78.
  • Four lectures on space and time. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld 1993, OCLC 75496095 .
  • Does mathematics need a foundation? A commentary on Part III of Wittgenstein's “Comments on the Fundamentals of Mathematics”. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-465-03667-8 . Online resource: 2014, ISBN 978-3-465-13667-5
  • Science. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-020335-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Author entry in The concept of time in the special theory of relativity. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 978-3-8204-7544-9 , p. 276
  2. ↑ a b Felix Mühlhölzer on synchron-publishers.com
  3. ↑ Press information on the website of the University of Göttingen
  4. ↑ see DNB 022203419
  5. ↑ See Martin Laube: Under the Spell of Language. The analytical philosophy of religion in the 20th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-015456-6 , p. 38, footnote 100 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Mühlholz, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Simbach am Inn