Education and work experience
Trainings
Studies of philosophy and history
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1986-1991)
Université de Lausanne (1987/88)
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (PhD) (1992-1994)
1986
- 1994
Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1987
- 1994
PhD-degree in philosophy
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), PhD-Thesis on "Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Th. Hobbes" (supervisors Prof. Dr. Peter Rohs and Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep)
1994
Continuous teaching in epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, logic, and history of modern philosophy
ETH Zürich and the Universities of Münster, Konstanz, Hertfordshire, Cologne and Lausanne
1994
Habilitation in Konstanz
Habilitation Thesis on "Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics"
2000
Work experience
Postdoctoral Fellow
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, research work on the philosophy of quantum theory with Prof. Hans Primas
1994
- 1996
Visiting Scholarships
Cambridge (with Prof. Michael Redhead and Dr. Jeremy Butterfield, 1996/97), Canberra (with Prof. Philip Pettit, 1998), and Pittsburgh (with Prof. Robert Brandom, 1999)
1996
- 1999
Research Fellow and Privatdozent
Department of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz
1997
- 2001
Summer Term Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Hertfordshire
2000
Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000
- 2001
Associate professor of epistemology, philosophy of science and logic
University of Cologne
2001
- 2002
Full professor of epistemology and philosophy of sciences
University of Lausanne
2002
