Teaching at the Chair of Philosophy of Science
The current and past courses offered by the Chair can be found on LSF.
The Chair is involved in the Master program in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the MCMP.
Example courses in the General Philosophy of Science:
- Value-free Science?
- Science and Pseudoscience
- Evidence and Justification
- Central Topics in the Philosophy of Science
- Studying Discrimination through the Lens of Philosophy of Science
- Scientific realism and its discontents
- Theories of Causation
Example courses in the Philosophy of the Specific Sciences:
- Philosophy of Space and Time
- Symmetries in Physics and Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Medicine
- Philosophy of Biology
- Philosophy of Climate Science
- Philosophy of Memory
- The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and Mathematics
Example courses in the Formal Epistemology and Philosophy of Machine Learning:
- Epistemology and theory of machine learning
- Philosophy of Probability
- Philosophy of Technology
- Philosophy of Statistics
- Philosophy of Data Science
- Probability Puzzles and Bayesian Epistemology
- Computational Methods in Philosophy, Introduction to Python
- Philosophy of Natural Language Processing
Doctoral studies at the Chair of Philosophy of Science
If you are interested in doing a PhD on a topic relevant to the Chair, there are two possibilities:
- You can apply for an advertised PhD student position. These advertisements will appear on the Faculty's webpage.
- You already have funding or are planning to apply for a scholarship (e.g. from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). In that case, please send the following documents (in English) as one PDF file to the Chair's secretary:
- a cover letter that addresses why you want to do your PhD at our chair, your academic background, your research interests and the proposed starting date;
- a list of publications (if applicable);
- BA and (if applicable) MA certificates;
- a sample of written work of no more than 3000 words;
- a description of the planned PhD project of about 2000 words.
A separate letter of recommendation should also be sent to the Chair's secretary from the referees directly. No need to copy you. We will then look at your documents and get back to you.
