Thomas Mormann (born 1951) is Professor of Philosophy at the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initiall ...

in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the

University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and ...

(1978). He obtained his Habilitation from the

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 ...

. He works in the

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 ult ...

formal ontology In philosophy, the term formal ontology is used to refer to an ontology defined by axioms in a formal language with the goal to provide an unbiased (domain- and application-independent) view on reality, which can help the modeler of domain- or a ...

, structuralism,

Carnap Rudolf Carnap (; ; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. ...

studies, and

neo-Kantianism In late modern continental philosophy, neo-Kantianism (german: Neukantianismus) was a revival of the 18th-century philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The Neo-Kantians sought to develop and clarify Kant's theories, particularly his concept of the "thin ...

Selected publications

* * Mormann, T. Continuous lattices and Whiteheadian theory of space. The Second German-Polish Workshop on Logic & Logical Philosophy (Żagań, 1998). ''Logic and Log. Philos.'' No. 6 (1998), 35–54. * W. Diederich, A. Ibarra, T. Mormann. Bibliography of structuralism. Erkenntnis, 1989, Springer. * T. Mormann. Rudolf Carnap. München, Beck, 2000. * T. Mormann. Ist der Begriff der Repräsentation obsolete? Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 1997. * J. Echeverría, A. Ibarra, T. Mormann. The Space of Mathematics: Philosophical, Epistemological and Historical Explorations. 1992.

External links

* https://facultyofphilosophyande.academia.edu/ThomasMormann {{DEFAULTSORT:Mormann, Thomas 21st-century Spanish philosophers Ontologists Philosophers of science Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country 1951 births Living people