Hannes Leitgeb

Hannes Leitgeb (2012)

Hannes Leitgeb (born June 26, 1972 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian mathematician and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and has held an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship since 2010 .

biography

Hannes Leitgeb studied mathematics at the University of Salzburg and graduated with a master's degree in 1997. After his two doctorates in mathematics (1998) and philosophy (2001), also in Salzburg, he took a position as assistant professor at the philosophy faculty there. In 2003 he received an Erwin Schrödinger grant from the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research . As part of this, he conducted research at the Department of Philosophy / CSLI at Stanford University . From 2005 he worked at the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics in Bristol . Two years later he became a professor of mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

In autumn 2010 he accepted an appointment as Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Chair for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, where he now also heads the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy . Thanks to his commitment and the funds available to him, the LMU's expansion and global significance in the field of logic. He himself speaks of a "spirit of optimism similar to the Vienna Circle " currently prevailing at the LMU .

In 2014 Leitgeb was elected to the Academia Europaea and on November 26, 2016 a member ( matriculation no. 7717 ) of the Leopoldina .

literature

• Leopoldina newly elected members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 25 ( PDF )

Web links

• Literature by and about Hannes Leitgeb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chair for Logic and Philosophy of Language

Individual evidence

1. ↑ philosophie.uni-muenchen.de
2. ↑ Member entry of Hannes Leitgeb (with CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 10, 2017.