Education 1978–1991 studies of philosophy, protestant theology, educational sciences, and Scandinavian languages at the universities of Bonn, Mainz, and Bochum Language proficiency tests in Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Old Icelandic, Danish 1991 doctoral dissertation, U of Bochum Title: The Gödel Theorems. Logical and Philosophical Perspectives Advisors: Proff. Gert König and Reinhard Kleinknecht Awarded with the "Wolfgang-Stegmüller-Preis" in 1994 2003 habilitation, U of Konstanz Title: Science and Reason in 19th Century Germany. Probability and Induction in Kant and the Fries School Advisor: Prof. Wolfgang Spohn Area(s) of Competence; Area(s) of Specialization AoC:  Modern Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Heidegger AoS: History and Philosophy of Science: Its history and philosophy in general, problems of knowledge acquisition and justification in particular; probabilistic reasoning and its formal models in the 19th and 20th century Kant and 19th Century German Philosophy Logic: Its history and its significance for philosophy in general and the Gödel theorems and related issues in particular History and Philosopy of Mathematics: Its history and philosophy in general, the discussion during the period from Kant up to the present in particular; recent interests in category theory and questions of mathematical practice Academic Positions 07/06 –          :  professor and chair, IPFW 07/03 – 06/06:  associate professor, U of Konstanz 04/96 – 05/03:  assistant professor, U of Konstanz 01/96 – 03/96:  assistant professor, U of Bielefeld 10/92 – 12/95:  assistant professor, U of Bochum 08/91 – 09/92:  research assistant, U of Bochum 05/87 – 04/91:  student assistant, U of Bochum (Major) Grants – Honors – Visiting Positions 10/06 – 10/09:  member of the DFG-funded Research Network PhiMSAMP 10/99 – 04/03:  adjunct member of the DFG-funded Research Group Logic in Philosophy 03/99 – 04/99:  grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 01/94 – 12/94:  grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) 04/92 – 05/92:  grant of the Austrian Ministry of Research      09/07      :  Multidisciplinary Research Award of the IPFW College of A&S      09/94      :  Wolfgang-Stegmüller Award of the GAP 08/03 – 08/04:  visiting professor, CMU, Pittsburgh/PA, USA 01/03 – 05/03:  visiting professor, CMU, Pittsburgh/PA, USA 08/01 – 12/01:  visiting professor, CMU, Pittsburgh/PA, USA 01/94 – 12/94:  visiting professor, U of Notre Dame, USA Memberships since 2006:  American Philosophical Association (APA) since 2006:  Indiana Philosophical Association (IPA) since 2000:  German Association for Analytical Philosophy (GAP) since 1993:  German Association for Mathematical Logic and the Foundations of the Exact Sciences (DVMLG) since 1991:  Kurt-Gödel-Gesellschaft (KGS), Vienna, AU since 1989:  Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), Urbana/IL, USA Further Activities & Service Secretary/Treasurer of the Indiana Philosophical Association Senator to the Purdue Senate, West Lafayette (2007–2010) Chair of various department and university committees Member of various department, college, and university committees Referee for various journals, books, and institutions Organizer or chairperson for various conferences A curriculum vitae will soon be downloadable here