Hannes Leitgeb

Leitgeb in 2012

Hannes Leitgeb (born 26 June 1972 in Salzburg) is an Austrian philosopher and mathematician. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has received a Humboldt Professorship in 2010. His areas of research include logic (theories of truth and modality, paradox, conditionals, nonmonotonic reasoning, dynamic doxastic logic), epistemology (belief, inference, belief revision, foundations of probability, Bayesianism), philosophy of mathematics (structuralism, informal provability, abstraction, criteria of identity), philosophy of language (indeterminacy of translation, compositionality), cognitive science (symbolic representation and neural networks, metacognition), philosophy of science (empirical content, measurement theory), and history of philosophy (logical positivism, Carnap, Quine).^[1]

Leitgeb studied mathematics at the University of Salzburg and graduated with a Master's degree in 1997. After his PhDs in mathematics (1998) and philosophy (2001), also in Salzburg, he was offered a position as assistant professor at the university's faculty of philosophy. In 2003 he received an Erwin Schrödinger scholarship by the Austrian Science Fund to do research at the Stanford University Department of Philosophy/CSLI. From 2005 on, he worked at the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics in Bristol. Two years later, he became Professor of Mathematical Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics.

In autumn 2010, he took up an invitation to occupy the Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he became director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.^[2]

In 2016 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[3]

References

1. "Prof. DDR. Hannes Leitgeb – Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft – LMU München". Archived from the original on 16 October 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
2. "Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) – LMU Munich".
3. "Hannes Leitgeb". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 26 May 2021.