Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Paul Hoyningen-Huene (born July 31, 1946 in Pfronten ) is a German philosopher who deals in particular with questions of the theoretical philosophy of science following Thomas S. Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, as well as with scientific ethics. Until 2014 he held the chair for theoretical philosophy, especially philosophy of science, at Leibniz University Hannover and head of the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science . He has been teaching Philosophy of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich since 2015.

Life

Hoyningen-Huene studied physics and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Imperial College of Science and Technology , London, and at the University of Zurich . He obtained his diploma in theoretical physics in 1971 from the University of Munich. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1975 at the University of Zurich while he was an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich (1972-1976 with Armin Thellung ). From 1975 to 1980 he was assistant to Hermann Lübbe at the Philosophical Department of the University of Zurich . In the period 1976–1995 he performed various tasks as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Zurich within the subjects philosophy, sociology, biology, history, environmental studies and psychology. From 1980 to 1998 he taught philosophy of science at the University of Bern . From 1980 to 1982 he was also a freelancer for the DRS television series for the series “People, Technology, Science”. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Institute for Linguistics and Philosophy with Thomas S. Kuhn . From 1987 to 1988, Hoyningen-Huene was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh . In 1988 he completed his habilitation in philosophy of science with a thesis on the philosophy of science Kuhn at the ETH Zurich . From 1988 to 1996 he was a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich in the field of philosophy of science and from 1989 to 1990 senior assistant at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the ETH Zurich, where he was responsible for networking the natural scientific aspects of environmental problems with their social and humanistic aspects was ("Humanities and social science environmental seminar"). From 1990 to 1997 he held a position as professor (C3) at the University of Konstanz for basic theory and history of the sciences, especially the exact sciences.

In 1997, Hoyningen-Huene accepted a call to a C4 professorship as founding director of the Central Institution for Theory of Science and Scientific Ethics (ZEWW) at the University of Hanover. In addition, he held visiting lectureships and representation in Switzerland (1980; 1987; 2010; 2012), Yugoslavia (1989; 1990), Denmark (1995; 2000) and Norway (1999). In 2001 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In April 2010, the Institute for Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover was re-established under the direction of Hoyningen-Huene and the ZEWW was integrated into the institute as the subunit Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science . The institute's research is primarily focused on topics related to theoretical and practical philosophy of science.

Hoyningen-Huene has built relationships with the Far East. In March 2009, he lectured at the National Taiwan University and Soochow University in Taipei . Together with Sumei CHENG (Shanghai Academy of Social Science) and other German partners, he organizes the annual "Sino-German Symposium in the Philosophy of Science and Technology" (2011 at Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2012 at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 2013 at Shanghai University, 2014 at Bielefeld University, 2015 at Dalian University, 2017 at TU Darmstadt). With Jen-Jeuq YUANN (National Taiwan University) he organized the conference “Incommensurability 50” in 2012 at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.

In September 2013 Hoyningen-Huene was elected to the Scientific Commission "Scientific Ethics" of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. On September 30, 2014, Hoyningen-Huene retired from Leibniz University Hannover. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Zurich, especially at the Department of Economics in the module "Philosophy of Economics".

Focus of work

The main focus of work at Hoyningen-Huene is the general philosophy of science. He dealt in particular with Thomas S. Kuhn's and Paul Feyerabend's philosophy of science and with the topic of incommensurability . With the book “Die Wissenschaftsphilosophie Thomas S. Kuhns. Reconstruction and basic problems ”, he presented an influential Neo-Kantian interpretation of Kuhn, which turns against irrationalist readings of Kuhn's philosophy of science. In addition, Hoyningen-Huene has worked on problems of reductionism , especially in biology, emergence and on a theory of anti- reductionist arguments. He has worked on a number of other topics, such as: B. the mathematization of the sciences, the philosophy of geography, the philosophy of the historical sciences, the technical usability of the natural sciences, the social cognition of primates, the philosophy of Niels Bohr , the philosophy of psychology, with Kant's Prolegomena, the philosophical question of trust, philosophy of football and, more recently, philosophy of economics. His book "Systematicity: The Nature of Science" is dedicated to the question of the nature of science (including the social and human sciences) and develops the thesis that the characteristic property of science that it differs from other forms of knowledge, e.g. B. differs from everyday knowledge, its higher degree of systematicity .

In the field of scientific ethics, Hoyningen-Huene deals with the complex of issues of the responsibility of scientists and engineers.

Fonts

Books

The mathematization of the sciences (ed., With an introduction), Artemis, Zurich 1983
Why philosophy of science? Positions and questions on the current philosophy of science (ed., Together with Gertrude Hirsch, with an introduction), de Gruyter, Berlin 1988
The philosophy of science of Thomas S. Kuhn. Reconstruction and basic problems , Vieweg, Braunschweig 1989
Reductionism and Systems Theory in the Life Sciences: Some Problems and Perspectives (Ed., Together with FM Wuketits), Kluwer, Dordrecht 1989
Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science. Translated by Alexander T. Levine. With a foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2nd edition 1993. Google Books
Paradigms. Facets of a conceptual career (Salzburger Schriften zur Rechts, Staats- und Sozialphilosophie, Volume 17) (Ed., Together with M. Fischer, with an introduction), Peter Lang, Bern 1997
Formal logic. A philosophical introduction. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998 ( ISBN 3-15-009692-8 )
Incommensurability and Related Matters . Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 216 (Ed., Together with H. Sankey, with an introduction). Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001
Ethical problems in the life sciences (Ed., Together with M. Weber). Heidelberg: Synchron, 2001.
Formal logic. A philosophical approach Translated by Alexander T. Levine. Pittsburgh University Press 2004.
Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities . Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 255 (Ed., Together with Léna Soler and Howard Sankey). Springer, 2008
The universal Leibniz: thinker, researcher and inventor (ed., Together with Thomas Reydon and Helmut Heit). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2009
Systematicity: The Nature of Science . New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Selected contributions in anthologies and journals

On the problems of reductionism in biology. In: Philosophia naturalis . 22, 2, 1985, pp. 271-286.
Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 18, 1987, pp. 501-515.
Kuhn's Conception of Incommensurability. In: Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 21, 3, 1990, pp. 481-492.
with Hans Kummer, Verena Dasser: Exploring Primate Social Cognition: Some Critical Remarks. In: Behavior. 112, 1 (2), 1990, pp. 84-98.
On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments. In: Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim (Eds.): Emergence or Reduction? Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1992, pp. 289-301.
The Interrelations Between the Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science in Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Development. In: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 43, 4, 1992, pp. 487-501.
On Emergence, Micro-determination, and Macro-determination. In: Weyma Lübbe (Ed.): Causality and attribution. De Gruyter, Berlin 1994, pp. 165-195.
with Eric Oberheim, Hanne Andersen: On Incommensurability. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 27, 1, 1996, pp. 131-142.
Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 33, 1, 2002, pp. 61-83.
with Eric Oberheim: The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2009 ( online ).
Why Is Football So Fascinating? In: Ted Richards (Ed.): Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game. Open Court, Chicago 2010. pp. 7-22.
The Ultimate Argument against Convergent Realism and Structural Realism: The Impasse Objection. In: Vassilios Karakostas, Dennis Dieks (Ed.): EPSA 11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science. Springer, Cham 2013.
Progress in knowledge from the perspective of the philosophy of science. In: Thomas Rucker (ed.): Knowledge progress (in) of educational science. Is the discipline learning? Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2017.

Lectures, lectures and interviews

Links to video recordings of lectures

Links to radio and television interviews with Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Paul Hoyningen-Huene on the website of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Hanover , English version of the curriculum vitae, accessed on July 13, 2011.

↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Paul Hoyningen-Huene (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.

↑ Extract from Information Philosophy, December 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 164 kB), accessed on March 6, 2013.@1@ 2

↑ Information at OUP

personal data
SURNAME	Hoyningen-Huene, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pfronten

[1] Paul Hoyningen-Huene on the website of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Hanover , English version of the curriculum vitae, accessed on July 13, 2011.

[2] Member entry by Prof. Dr. Paul Hoyningen-Huene (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.