Stephan Hartmann

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Stephan Hartmann (2015)

Stephan Hartmann (born March 1, 1968 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German philosopher of science and formal epistemology. He has been Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2012 and, together with Hannes Leitgeb, Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy .

Career

Hartmann received his doctorate in 1995 from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He spent one year research stays at the University of Washington and the University of Pittsburgh and taught from 1998 to 2003 at the University of Konstanz , where he led the research group Philosophy, Probability and Modeling together with Luc Bovens . From 2003 to 2007 he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science (from 2006 as professor), where he headed the Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) from 2004 to 2006 . He then became professor in the Department of Philosophy and founding director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Visiting professorships took him to the University of California , Irvine, and Lund University . In 2016 Stephan Hartmann was elected a member ( matriculation number 7716 ) of the Leopoldina , and in 2019 a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Stephan Hartmann is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation and is still a liaison professor to this day. He is President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) and the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) . Hartmann is a member of the Münch Foundation's reform commission.

Hartmann deals with problems from the general philosophy of science, the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of the social sciences and formal epistemology. He takes a transdisciplinary approach and uses, for example, probabilistic methods (such as the Bayesian network theory ) to investigate complex questions from different areas of philosophy.

Publications (selection)

  • 2003: Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2006: Models in Science (with Roman Frigg). In: E. Zalta (Ed.): The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • 2011: Probabilities in Physics (ed. With Claus Beisbart). Oxford University Press.
  • 2011: Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation (ed. With Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Thomas Uebel and Marcel Weber). Berlin: Springer (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective series).

Web links

literature

  • Leopoldina Newly Elected Members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 19 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Hartmann in the 2012 annual report of the German National Academic Foundation. In: Annual Report 2012. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2012, accessed on February 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stephan Hartmann on the website of the Münch Foundation. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Reform Commission of the Münch Foundation. In: stiftung-muench.org. Münch Foundation, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ stephanhartmann.org . Retrieved January 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic philosopher and professor for the philosophy of science
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn