Wolfgang Spohn#
| Membership Number: | 3968 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/philosophie/index.php?article_id=25&clang=0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996, 04 – today: Chair of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz
- 1991, 04 – 1996, 03: Chair of Philosophy of Science, University of Bielefeld
- 1986, 08 – 1991, 03: Asscociate Professor, University of Regensburg
- 1984, 08 – 1986, 07: Assistant Professor (Akademischer Oberrat), University of Munich
- 1984, 04 – 1984, 07: Substitute of a Chair of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld
- 1976, 03 – 1984, 03: Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Assistent), University of Munich
- 1971, 10 – 1973, 05: Scientific Collaborator at a DFG research project directed by Prof. Dr. W. Stegmüller
Fields of Scholarship
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of science
- Philosophy of mind and language
- Metaphysics and ontology
- Philosophical logics
- Philosophy of logic and mathematics
- Theory of (theoretical and practical) rationality
- Decision and game theory
Honours and Awards
- Frege-Preis 2015 of the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (for Outstanding Achievements in Analytic Philosophy)
- Lakatos Award 2012 of the London School of Economics (for an Outstanding Contribution to the Philosophy of Science)
- Fellow Elect of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (2005)
- Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2002)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of California at Irvine, USA (1988)
- Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (1985/86)
- Heisenberg Grant of the DFG (1985, not used)
