Stephan Hartmann | |
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 Stephan Hartmann (2015) | |
| Born | (1968-03-01)1 March 1968 (age 57) Limburg an der Lahn, Germany |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Giessen |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Konstanz London School of Economics Tilburg University University of Munich |
| Website | http://www.stephanhartmann.org/ |
Stephan Hartmann (born 1 March 1968) is a German philosopher and Professor ofPhilosophy of Science atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich, known for his contributions toformal epistemology.
Hartmann was born inLimburg an der Lahn inHesse, Germany. He studied physics and philosophy atJustus Liebig University inGiessen, Germany and received his bachelor's degree in 1989. He received his PhD in philosophy from the same university in 1995. He was a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Washington from 1991 to 1992. He became a lecturer in philosophy at theUniversity of Konstanz in 1996 and taught there for two years before becoming an assistant professor of philosophy in 1998. Hartmann was a fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at theUniversity of Pittsburgh from 2000 to 2001. Back in Germany in 2002 at theUniversity of Konstanz 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 theLondon School of Economics and Political Science, and became Professor in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. In 2007 he became Professor of Philosophy at theTilburg University, 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).[1] Hartmann is President of the European Philosophy of Science Association[2] (2013–17) and President of theEuropean Society for Analytic Philosophy (2014-2017).[3] 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.[4]
