Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann

Personal information

Stephan Hartmann is Chair of Philosophy of Science, Co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at LMU. Moreover, he is an external member of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. He researches and teaches on questions in general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, formal epistemology and formal philosophy of science, social epistemology, and (Bayesian) cognitive science. His current research interests include the philosophy of open quantum systems, the philosophy and psychology of reasoning and argumentation, and models of deliberation.

Curriculum vitae

Selected publications

1. Sprenger, J. & Hartmann, S.: Bayesian Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
2. Eva, B. & Hartmann, S.: Bayesian Argumentation and the Value of Logical Validity. Psychological Review 125 (5): 806–821 (2018).
3. Stern, R. & Hartmann, S.: Two Sides of Modus Ponens. The Journal of Philosophy 115 (11): 605–621 (2018).
4. Colombo, M. & Hartmann, S.: Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification and Explanation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (2): 451–484 (2017).
5. Dawid, R., Hartmann, S. & Sprenger, J.: The No Alternatives Argument. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66 (1): 213–234 (2015).
6. Frigg, R. & Hartmann, S.: Models in Science, in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020).
7. Dizadji-Bahmani, F., Frigg, R. & Hartmann, S.: Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction?, Erkenntnis 73 (3): 393–412 (2010).
8. Bovens, L. & Hartmann, S.: Bayesian Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
9. Beisbart, C., Bovens, L. & Hartmann, S.: A Utilitarian Assessment of Alternative Decision Rules in the Council of Ministers. European Union Politics 6 (4): 395–419 (2005).
10. Hartmann, S.: The World as a Process: Simulations in the Natural and Social Sciences, in: R. Hegselmann et al. (eds.), Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996, pp. 77–100.

Academic distinctions

• 2023 Corresponding Member, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
• 2021 - 2024 Henriette Herz Scout, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2020 Member, Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)
• 2019 Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• 2016 Member, Leopoldina
• 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
• 2008 - Honorary Visiting Professor, Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney, Australia

Research projects

Current externally funded research projects:

• Argumentation in a Social Context, funded by the DFG (2024 - 2027)
• Amalgamating Evidence About Causes: Medicine, the Medical Sciences, and Beyond, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK) and the DFG (“UK-German Collaborative Research Project in the Arts and Humanities”; with Jacob Stegenga, Cambridge) (2023 - 2026)
• Towards a Mathematical Philosophy of Consciousness, funded by the LMU-NYU Strategic Partnership (with Johannes Kleiner) (2023 - 2024)
• Decision Theory and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, funded by the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership (with Jacob Stegenga) (2022 - 2024)
• The Universe as an Open System, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK) and the DFG (“UK-German Collaborative Research Project in the Arts and Humanities”, with Karim Thebault, James Ladyman and David Sloan, Bristol) (2021 - 2024)
• The Bayesian Approach to Robust Argumentation Machines, funded as part of the DFG priority programme “Robust Argumentation Machines” (2021 - 2024)

Teaching

Prof. Hartmann's current courses can be found on LSF.

If you wish to write a thesis under Prof. Hartmann's supervision, please contact him by email, including a few sentences outlining the planned topic, in order to arrange an appointment.

Further activities

• 2024 - 2028 Member of the Research Committee, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• 2023 - Member, Advisory Board, Open Science Center, LMU Munich
• 2023 Panel member, Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal
• 2023 Panel member, National Science Center of Poland (NCN)
• 2021 - Panel member, Research Council of Norway (RCN)
• 2018 - Member, ESF College of Expert Reviewers
• 2015 Panel member, European Research Council (ERC)
• 2014 - Member, International Advisory Board, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
• 2014 - 2017 President, European Society for Analytical Philosophy (ESAP)
• 2013 - 2017 President, European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)
• 2012 - 2016 Scientific Board Member, Munich Center for Neurosciences, LMU Munich
• 2011 - 2012 Member, Wetenschappelijke Adviescollege Geesteswetenschappen (NWO)
• 2010 - 2014 Member, Governing Board, Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)
• 2009 - 2018 Member, Advisory Board, Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS)
• 2007 - 2009 Vice-President, European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)

Editorial Boards: Epistemic Studies (de Gruyter, since 2001), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2009-2017), European Studies in Philosophy of Science (since 2013), Minds and Machines (since 2009), Philosophy Compass (since 2006), Philosophisches Jahrbuch (since 2015), Philosophy of Physics (since 2021), Philosophy of Science (since 2010), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (since 2011), Theory and Decision Library A (since 2012).