PhD Candidate/Junior Researcher in the History of Philosophy and Science

The Center for the History of Philosophy and Science (CHPS) brings historians of philosophy and historians of science together in a single research unit. Its goal is to investigate the immensely rich discipline of natural philosophy and to describe its evolution in time from Antiquity to the 21st century. It pays particular attention to the period between 1250 and 1700, and to the consequences of the fragmentation of the Aristotelian worldview into the manifold of modern scientific disciplines, which no longer share common ontological and epistemological premises. This fragmentation of natural philosophy into different sciences, which do no longer share common ontological and epistemological premises, raises important questions for the contemporary philosopher of science, which are also addressed at CHPS.

Research topics addressed at CHPS include notions of place/space, time, matter, motion, chance and necessity, but also soul, mind and cognition. Within the global academic landscape, CHPS is unique in approaching the history of philosophy and the history of science as historically intertwined phenomena. For this reason, it has attracted staff, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers from many countries, and functions as an international hub for scholars interested in the combination of the history of philosophy and the history of science. In addition to addressing academic peers, CHPS also reaches out to a wider audience to contribute to a better understanding of the historical trajectory that has led to today's science and technology-driven society.

The members of CHPS publish the journal Early Science and Medicine and the book series Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science. The largest collective project includes the edition of Buridan's commentary on Aristotle's Physics. Other projects address issues as diverse as the relation between the faculty of imagination and scientific image-formation, the effect of Einstein's relativity theory on the philosophy of time in the 1920s and 1930s, Francis Bacon's matter theory, and the development of psychology during the Renaissance.

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