Ulrich Gaehde

Ulrich Gähde (born June 10, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher .

Life

He completed his studies of physics , mathematics and philosophy in Berlin and Munich in 1976 with a diploma in physics (with a diploma thesis on theoretical nuclear physics at the chair of Georg Süssmann / Ludwig Maximilians University Munich ). After studying philosophy, logic and philosophy of science (1976–1979) at the LMU, he initially worked as a research assistant in a DFG research project before joining Wolfgang Stegmüller in 1982/ LMU Munich did his doctorate in philosophy (topic of the dissertation: formal criteria for marking theoretical terms). From 1983 to 1990 he worked as a university assistant at Bielefeld University and the Free University of Berlin . In 1989 he completed his habilitation at Bielefeld University with a thesis on “Theory and Hypothesis. To limit conflicts between theory and experience ”, which was awarded the prize for outstanding habilitation theses of the Westphalian-Lippian University Society. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation before he was appointed to a C3 professorship for philosophy at the University of Bayreuth in 1993 . In 1998 he turned down an offer for a chair for philosophy with a focus on theoretical philosophy at the Ludwig-Mercator- Universität Duisburg . From 1999 he taught and researched as Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (C4) at the University of Hamburg . He retired in 2017.

Ulrich Gähde was Vice President of the Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP) from 2000 to 2006. In 2003 he was accepted as a full member ( matriculation number 6912 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2008 the National Academy of Sciences). Since 2015 he has been a member of the Senate of the Leopoldina and spokesman for Section 24 Theory of Science. In 2005 he was appointed a founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. From 2006 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the academy's working group “Modeling, Simulation and Complexity Reduction” and from 2013 to 2017 a member of the board of this academy. In 2018 he was a fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh .

His work focuses on investigations into the logical structure and development of scientific theories, problem areas at the interface between epistemology and philosophy of science, confirmation holism and structural comparisons between normative-ethical and descriptive-empirical theories.

Fonts (selection)

• with W. Stocker: On the Temperature Dependence of the Conservative Force between Heavy Ions . In:   Nuclear Physics A278 (1977), pp. 177-188.

• T-theory and holism . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7545-1 (also dissertation, Munich 1982).

• with W. Stegmüller: An Argument in Favor of the Duhem-Quine-Thesis: From the Structuralist Point of View . In: LE Hahn and PH Schilpp (eds.): The Philosophy of W. v. Quine, The Library of Living Philosophers, vol.15, La Salle, Il. 1986, pp. 117-136.

• with Wolfgang H. Schrader (ed.): The classic utilitarianism. Influences, developments, consequences . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-002163-2 .

• with Lutz H. Eckensberger (Ed.): Ethical norm and empirical hypothesis (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft Volume 1088). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-28688-9 .

• Holism, Underdetermination, and the Dynamics of Empirical Theories. In: Synthesis 130 (2002), pp. 69-90.

• with Stephan Hartmann (Ed.): Coherence, Truth and Testimony . Springer, Dordrecht 2006, ISBN 1-4020-4426-7 .

• with Stephan Hartmann and Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.): Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Volume 4). De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-031360-X .

Web links

• Ulrich Gähdes homepage at the University of Hamburg
• Member entry of Ulrich Gähde (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina