Gerhard Vollmer#
| Membership Number: | 2435 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.philosophie.tu-bs.de/profile/vollmer.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Retired
- 1991-2007 Full Professor, Tech. University, Braunschweig, Germany
- 1981-1991 Professor, Univ. Giessen, Germany
- 1975-1981 Lecturer, Univ. Hannover, Germany
- 1974 Ph.D. Philosophy, Univ. Freiburg, Germany
- 1971-1974 Assistant Professor, Univ. Freiburg, Germany
- 1971/72 Research associate / postdoc with Mario Bunge, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada
- 1971 Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Univ. Freiburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary ethics
- Evolutionary theories
- Philosophy of science, esp. physics and biology
- Reduction problems
- Circularity problems
- Unity of science
- Philosophy of nature
- Algorithms
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Leopoldina Academy Halle, Scientific Society Braunschweig, Academia Europaea, London.
- 2002 Guest professor, Changsha, China
- 2003 Honorary volume: “Kaltblütig Philosophy from a Rational Point of View” , 540 pages
- 2004 Culture Award Eduard-Rhein Foundation
