Torsten Wilholt#
| Membership Number: | 7133 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.philos.uni-hannover.de/wilholt.html?&L=1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0729-5476 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019,03 Full Professor of Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover
- 2011 - 2019 Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover
- 2008 - 2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Toronto
- 2004 - 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University
- 2002 - 2004 Post-Doc, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University
- 1999 - 2002 Fellow of Graduate Research Group “Development, Structure and Consequences of Science and Technology”, Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University
Fields of Scholarship
- Science and society
- Political philosophy science
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Public trust in science
- General philosophy of science
- Science and values
- Social epistemology of science
- Philosophy of applied science
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Wissenschaftspreis Niedersachsen (State Prize for Science of the State of Lower Saxony)
- 2017 Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), Brussels
- 2003 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Bielefeld University Association
