Klaus Fischer (science historian)

Klaus Fischer (* 1949 ) is a German science historian and science theorist who has been a professor at Trier University since 1992 .

From 1975 to 1977 Fischer worked at the chair of Hans Albert at the University of Mannheim , where he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of science on the "Critique of Marxist Theory of Science". From 1977 to 1985 Fischer worked at the University of Münster at Heinz Hartmann's chair , where he was editor of the magazine "Soziologische Revue". From 1985 to 1992 he worked at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (headed by Herbert A. Strauss ) at the Technical University of Berlin , where he led projects on "Research into the history of the effects of the emigration of physicists and biologists from Germany after 1933". In 1987 Fischer completed his habilitation with a thesis in the field of cognitive research. Since 1992 he has been a university professor at the University of Tier.

Research areas

• Theory of science, history of science, philosophy of nature, philosophy of psychology, AI, science emigration after 1933, epistemology, scientometry, science indicators, philosophy

Teaching areas

• Theory of Science, History of Science, Philosophy of Nature, Epistemology, Sociology of Knowledge

Prizes and awards

• Mouton d'Or (best article in SEMIOTICA 1988)

Publications (selection)

• Critique of the Marxist philosophy of science: socio-economic determination of science or logic of the development of ideas? ; Early history, ancient Orient, antiquity , 2., verb. Edition, Fischer, Verlag für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie, Greven 1979, DNB 800264312 (at the same time University of Mannheim , Faculty of Social Sciences, dissertation , 1977, series: Studies on empirical and systematic science research , Volume 1).
• Cognitive foundations of sociology , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1987, (partial print of the habilitation thesis) ISBN 3-428-06279-5 .
• Changing Landscapes of Nuclear Physics: A Scientometric Study on the Social and Cognitive Position of German-Speaking Emigrants Within the Nuclear Physics Community, 1921–1947 , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-642-78089-9 .
• Einstein , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-451-04762-4 (= Herder spectrum , volume 4762: master thinkers ).

Festschrift for fishermen

• Hamid Reza Yousefi (Ed.): The Daring of the New: Contexts and Restrictions of Science; Festschrift for Klaus Fischer on his 60th birthday , Nordhausen: Bautz 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-507-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Fischer at the University of Trier
• Page about fishermen at rlp-Forschung.de