Stephan Hartmann (born 1 March 1968) is a German philosopher and Professor of

Philosophy of Science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultim ...

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, known for his contributions to

formal epistemology Formal epistemology uses formal methods from decision theory, logic, probability theory and computability theory to model and reason about issues of epistemological interest. Work in this area spans several academic fields, including philosophy, ...

Biography

Hartmann received his PhD from

Justus Liebig University University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

, Germany in 1995. He started his academic career at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

and the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. Back in Germany in 2002 at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

he headed the research group Philosophy, Probability and Modelling together with Luc Bovens. From 2004 to 2006 he led the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

, and became Professor in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. In 2007 he became Professor of Philosophy at the

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a public university, public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands. Tilb ...

, The Netherlands, where he founded and led the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). In 2012 Hartmann became Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion at LMU Munich, where he also is co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). Hartmann is President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2013–17) and President of the

European Society for Analytic Philosophy The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) is a philosophical organization founded by Kevin Mulligan, Barry Smith, Peter Simons, Pierre Jacob, Diego Marconi, Francois Recanati, Marco Santambrogio, Andreas Kemmerling and Pascal Engel in ...

(2014-2017). Since 2016, he is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and since 2019, he is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.stephanhartmann.org
Accessed May 26, 2019

Publications

* 2003. ''Bayesian Epistemology'' (with

Luc Bovens Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bovens is a former editor of '' Economics and Philosophy''. His main areas of research are moral and political philosophy, philosophy of economics ...

). Oxford: Oxford University Press. * 2006
Models in Science
(with

Roman Frigg Roman Frigg (born 1972) is a Swiss philosopher, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and director of its Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. In 2016 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research A ...

). In E. Zalta (ed.): The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. * 2011. ''Probabilities in Physics'' (ed. with Claus Beisbart). Oxford: Oxford University Press. * 2011. ''Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation'' (ed. with Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,

Thomas Uebel Thomas Ernst Uebel (born 1952) is a philosopher of science, and professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester. Uebel has held academic posts at Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, Technical University of Berlin, University ...

and Marcel Weber). Berlin: Springer. (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective series). * 2019. ''Bayesian Philosophy of Science'' (with Jan Sprenger). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

External links

Personal webpage

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2013
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