Year |
Activity |
since 2022 |
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Liberal Institute of Switzerland Member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society Germany |
2019 |
Summer term senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies "Imaginaria of Force" at the University of Hamburg |
2016-2021 |
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau |
2013 |
Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis) of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, spending the academic year 2014/15 at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy |
since 2010 |
Fellow of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the National Academy of Germany |
2008 |
Award of the cogito foundation for dialog between human and natural sciences |
2004-2014 and 2020-2022 |
Head of the Department of Philosophy of Lausanne University |
Since Oct. 2002 |
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2001-2002 |
Associate professor (C3) of epistemology, philosophy of science and logic at Albertus Magnus University Cologne |
09/2000-03/2001 |
Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Konstanz |
2000 |
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire |
1997-2001 |
Research Fellow and Privatdozent (since 2000) at the Department of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz (Germany) |
Feb. 2000 |
Habilitation at the University of Konstanz (Germany), Habilitation Thesis on "Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics", habilitation funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1998-2000) |
1996-99 |
Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (with Prof. Michael Redhead and Dr. Jeremy Butterfield, 1996/97), the Australian National University Canberra (with Prof. Philip Pettit, 1998), and the University of Pittsburgh (with Prof. Robert Brandom, 1999) |
1994-96 |
Postdoctoral guest researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, research work on the philosophy of quantum theory (group of Prof. Hans Primas), funded by a postdoctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Dr. Meyer-Struckmann-Stiftung (1995-1998) |
1994 |
PhD-degree in philosophy at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), PhD-Thesis on "Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Th. Hobbes" (supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Rohs, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep) |
1987-94 |
Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
1986-94 |
Studies of philosophy and history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (1986-1991), Université de Lausanne (1987/88), and Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (PhD) (1992-1994) |
1986 |
High School graduation (Abitur) |
1966 |
Born in Berlin (West) |