Ulrich Nortmann

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Ulrich Nortmann (born 1956 in Treysa , a district of Schwalmstadt ) is a German philosopher with an analytical orientation and holder of a professorship for theoretical philosophy and philosophy of science at the University of Saarbrücken .

Life

After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied in Göttingen , which Nortmann completed in 1981 with the state examination in mathematics and philosophy . Then he also studied Latin Philology of the Middle Ages . In 1985 he received his doctorate in philosophy, also in Göttingen, and eight years later he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Bonn .

In his dissertation , Nortmann designed environmental semantics in Lewis style for deontic modalities and examined the resulting logic from a theoretical and philosophical point of view. In his habilitation thesis and numerous related publications , he pursued the concern of showing the syllogistics of Aristotle , enriched with modal expressions , the "modal syllogistics", essentially as a fragment of a modal predicate logic in the modern understanding. In mathematics and mathematical logic, Nortmann is particularly interested in algebraic number theory (the subject of his thesis was a class-field-theoretical derivation of the biquadratic reciprocity law), classical proof theory in Gödel style and its connection with (proof-theoretical) modal logic as well as the foundation of mathematics by the ZFC - axioms and conceivable alternatives. In the field of physics and the philosophy of science of the natural sciences, he deals with quantum mechanics and the ontological - epistemological interpretation of its theorems . His areas of work also include ancient Greek philosophy, with publications on Plato and Aristotle, as well as philosophy of language and art , with publications on Frege semantics and cognitive aspects of art reception.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nortmann, Deontic logic without paradoxes. Semantics and logic of the normative ; Munich 1989.
  2. ^ Nortmann, Modale Syllogisms, Possible Worlds, Essentialism. An Analysis of Aristotelian Modal Logic ; Berlin 1996.
  3. ↑ Nortmann, Infinity in the head. Fettering and unleashing of thought through mathematics ; Münster 2015.
  4. ^ Nortmann, Blurred World? What philosophers want to know about quantum mechanics ; Darmstadt 2008, 2009.
  5. ^ Newen, Nortmann, Stuhlmann-Laeisz (eds.), Building on Frege ; Chicago 2001.
  6. ↑ Nortmann, Wagner (ed.), Thinking in Pictures? Munich 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Nortmann, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Treysa