Paul Weingartner

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Paul Weingartner (born June 8, 1931 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian philosopher and scientific theorist .

After studying primary school, he worked as a primary school teacher for three years until 1955. He then studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the University of Innsbruck until 1961 . This was followed by a postdoc with Karl Popper in London and as a Humboldt fellow with Wolfgang Stegmüller in Munich.

He was an assistant in Salzburg and from 1970 until his retirement in 1999 professor of philosophy at the University of Salzburg . From 1972 he was head of the Institute for Scientific Theory of the International Research Center Salzburg.

The Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1995.

Publications

  • Philosophy of Science I. Introduction to the main problems . 1978
  • Philosophy of Science II, 1. Basic problems of logic and mathematics . 1976
  • Formal Teleology and Causality. Formal Teleology and Causality in Physics . 2004 (with Michael Stöltzner)
  • The language in the sciences . 1999
  • Evolution as creation? . 2001
  • Law and Prediction in the Light of Chaos Research . 1996 (with Gerhard Schurz)
  • Faith and reason. Interdisciplinary debate on the encyclical Fides et Ratio . (as editor)
  • Basic questions of the sciences and their roots in metaphysics . 1967
  • Law and prediction . 1996
  • Knowledge and belief. Knowledge and Belief. Files from the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2003 . (as editor, with Winfried Löffler)
  • Logical-philosophical investigations into values ​​and norms. Values ​​and norms in science and research . 1996
  • Logical-philosophical investigations on philosophical-historical topics. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Popper . 1996
  • Coexistence of Rival Paradigms . 1998 (with Gerhard Schurz)
  • Description, analyticity and existence . 1966
  • Evil. Different kinds of evil in the light of a modern theodicy . 2003
  • The problem of evil in the world. From an interdisciplinary point of view . (as editor)

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SURNAME Weingartner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and philosophy of science
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck