Holger Lyre
Holger Lyre (* 1965 ) is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg . He is also the founding chairman of the Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Life
After studying physics, philosophy and neuroinformatics in Marburg , Dortmund and Bochum with a degree in physics in 1993, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bochum in 1996. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in the academic year 1998/99 and completed his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Bonn. After substituting professorships at the Universities of Bielefeld and Augsburg, he accepted a professorship for Theoretical Philosophy / Philosophy of Mind at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg in the 2009 winter semester.
research
Lyre's research focuses on the theory of science , philosophy of science , ontology , cognitive philosophy and philosophy of mind . In the mid-1990s he began working on the conceptual relationships between quantum and information theory, which he carried out in part in close cooperation with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . Then he turned to basic questions of gauge theories (physical field theories with local symmetries). In this and a general ontological context, he represents the position of structural realism . In the course of the 2000s there was also an increased focus on cognitive philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Here Lyre emerged primarily through work on the topics of multiple feasibility , reductionism and especially extended mind (extended cognition).
Teaching
As part of his teaching activities at the University of Magdeburg, Lyre was primarily responsible for the consecutive course in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition there.
Works
- Local symmetries and reality. A natural-philosophical study on gauge theories and structural realism . Mentis, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-89785-247-0 .
- Information theory. A philosophical and scientific introduction . Fink (UTB), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7705-3446-8 .
- Quantum theory of information. To the natural philosophy of the theory of the original alternatives and an abstract theory of information . 2nd Edition. Mentis, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-211-83204-1 (first edition: Springer, 1998, with a foreword by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ).
- Holger Lyre, Oliver Schliemann (eds.): Kant's “Prolegomena”: A cooperative commentary . Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2012.
- Holger Lyre, Thomas Görnitz (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker : The Structure of Physics . Springer, Dordrecht 2006.
- Holger Lyre (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: The conceptual structure of theoretical physics . Hirzel, Stuttgart 2004.
- Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre, Andrew Wayne (Eds.): Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory . World Scientific, Singapore 2002.
Web links
- Literature by and about Holger Lyre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Holger Lyre
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyre, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |