Jürgen Mittelstrass#
| Membership Number: | 38 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/Mitarbeiter/mittelstrass/homepage.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1970-2005 Full Professor, Philosophy, Univ. Konstanz, Germany
- 1968 Habilitation, Univ. Erlangen, Germany
- 1961 Ph.D. Philosophy, Univ. Erlangen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- History and philosophy of science
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- History of philosophy (particularly ancient Greek philosophy)
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Society
- 1992 Arthur-Burkhardt Prize
- 1998 Lorenz-Oken Medal of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians
- 2000 Werner-Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1993 Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
- 1999 Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2006 Order of Merit of the State of Bavaria
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh Pa/USA, from the Humboldt University of Berlin and from the University of Jassy/Romania
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tartu/Estonia
- 2004 Honorary Doctorate from Technical University of Berlin
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen
- 1985-1990 Member of the German Science Council
- 1997-1999 President of the German Philosophical Association
- 2002-2009 President of the Academia Europaea
- 2005 Chairman of the Austrian Science Council
- 2013 Nicholas Rescher Prize
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (Berlin), of the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina (Halle), of the Academia Europaea (London), of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Pontificia Academia Scientiarum) (Rome); Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
