Michael Drieschner

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Michael Drieschner (born May 15, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) is a German physicist and philosopher . Until 2006 he was professor for natural philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Life

Drieschner was born in 1939. After graduating from high school at the humanistic Karlsgymnasium München-Pasing , he studied physics in Munich, Berlin, Göttingen and Paris and passed the diploma examination in 1964 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He then studied philosophy and received his doctorate in 1968 with a thesis on the axiomatics of quantum mechanics under Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the University of Hamburg . Since 1969 he has been involved in setting up the Max Planck Institute for research into living conditions in the scientific and technical world , where he worked closely with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

In 1980 he was at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich habilitated with a thesis on the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. From 1978 he worked in various companies within the Catholic Integrated Congregation . In 1986 he became a professor of natural philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He has been retired since 2006.

Research priorities

Drieschner's research focuses on the conceptual foundations of quantum theory, probability theory and evolution theory as well as their philosophical interpretation. For the probability he found the definition as predicted relative frequency , which allows the derivation of its basic rules. For the Hilbert space structure of quantum mechanics, he gave an axiomatic that allows a priori justification .

Fonts (selection)

  • Prediction - Probability - Object. About the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics . Lecture Notes in Physics 99, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1979, 308 pp., 10 ills.
  • CF v. Weizsäcker - an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1992, 141 pp.
  • Modern natural philosophy - an introduction . mentis, Paderborn 2002, 264 pp.
  • Risk, Growth and Fall in the Rate of Profit . In: Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich (ed.): Physics, Philosophy and Politics. Festschrift for CF v. Weizsäcker on his 70th birthday. Hanser, Munich 1982, pp. 168-177.
  • The conceptual structure of the (neo-) Darwinian theory . In: Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften 5 (1994), pp. 214–217.
  • Synthetic a priori judgments in modern science . In: Kirsten Schmidt et al. (Ed.), The Topicality of the Philosophy of Kant. Grüner, Amsterdam 2005, pp. 25-36

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ home page
  2. ↑ Modern Natural Philosophy - An Introduction . mentis, Paderborn 2002, p. 74; 101

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personal data
SURNAME Drieschner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf