Dr. Idit Chikurel
Postdoktorandin
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie, MCMP
Büroadresse:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Postdoktorandin
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie, MCMP
Büroadresse:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
I am a postdoctoral fellow of the Minerva Stiftung. I obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Science (2019), an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (2011) and a B.A. in Psychology and Women & Gender Studies (2005), all at Tel Aviv University. I conducted several postdoctoral projects at the University of Hamburg, University of Potsdam, Max Planck Institute of Science, Humboldt University and ETH Zurich. I was recently a guest lecturer at Berlin Institute of Technology and the University of Potsdam, and formerly an exchange graduate student at Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV University.
My research interests are in the philosophy and history of mathematics, philosophy of science, history of philosophy and the employment of scientific knowledge in Jewish philosophy. I focus on epistemological and metaphysical questions, and on the use of mathematical knowledge in the construction of philosophical arguments. In my current project I explore the roles of grounds and consequences in ampliative analysis, comparing Salomon Maimon’s ampliative analysis based on intuition and diagrams with Bernard Bolzano’s ampliative analysis based on interchangeability of concepts. My inquiry builds upon mathematical examples of ampliative reasoning.