Prof. Dr. Carlos Ulises Moulines

Personal information

Carlos Ulises Moulines, born on 26 October 1946 in Caracas, Venezuela, is a renowned philosopher of science. He has Venezuelan and Spanish citizenship and has worked at numerous universities around the world during his academic career. After studies in physics, philosophy, and psychology in Barcelona, he received his doctorate in 1975 in logic and philosophy of science from the University of Munich.

His career led him to institutions in Germany, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, among them the University of Bielefeld and the Free University of Berlin. From 1993 to 2012 he was Professor Ordinarius for Philosophy, Logic, and Philosophy of Science at the University of Munich and Chairman of the Insititute for Philosophy there. Today, Moulines is Professor Emeritus at the University of Munich and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on general philosophy of science, the history of the natural sciences, as well as formal reconstructions of physical theories.

Selected publications

1. Moulines, C.U. Zur logischen Rekonstruktion der Thermodynamik. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Analyse. München: Universität München, 1975, 112.
2. Moulines, C.U. "Hermann von Helmholtz: A Physiological Approach to the Theory of Knowledge". In: H.N. Jahnke and M. Otte (eds.) Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981, 65-73.
3. Moulines, C.U. "An example of a Theory-Frame: Equilibrium Thermodynamics". In: J. Hintikka et al. (eds.) Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics, and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981, 211-238.
4. Moulines, C.U. "On How the Distinction Between History and Philosophy of Science Should Not be Drawn". Erkenntnis, 19, 1983, 285-296.
5. Moulines, C.U. "Ontological Reduction in the Natural Sciences". In: W. Balzer et al. (eds.) Reduction in Science. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984, 51-70.
6. Moulines, C.U., W. Balzer, and J.D. Sneed. An Architectonic for Science: The Structuralist Program. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987, 431.
7. Moulines, C.U. "The Emergence of a Research Programme in Classical Thermodynamics". In: K. Gavroglu and Y. Goudaroulis (eds.) Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989, 111-121.
8. Moulines, C.U., W. Balzer, and J.D. Sneed. Structuralist Knowledge Representations: Paradigmatic Examples. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000, 362.
9. Moulines, C.U. "Ontology, reduction, emergence: A general frame". Synthese, 151/3 (Special Issue on New Perspectives on Reduction and Emergence in Physics, Biology and Psychology), 2006, 313-323.
10. Moulines, C.U. Die Entwicklung der modernen Wissenschaftstheorie (1890-2000): Eine historische Einführung. Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 2008, 210.