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Since 2008, Michael Stöltzner has been a professor at the University of South Carolina. A native of Munich, he has studied at Tübingen, Trieste, Vienna, and Bielefeld, receiving an MSc in Physics from the University of Vienna and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bielefeld. He has held positions at the Universities of Salzburg, Bielefeld, and Wuppertal, and was a visiting fellow at several places, among them the University of California at Irvine, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Bonn, and the University of Stockholm. He has been a founding member of the interdisciplinary DFG-FWF research unit “Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider.” (2016-2023) In 2021 he has received the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of South Carolina.
Research Interests
Michael Stöltzner’s main areas of research are philosophy and history of physics and applied mathematics; philosophy of elementary particle physics; core principles of mathematical physics, among them the principle of least action; history of logical empiricism and related movements; the development of formal teleology; and the role of models in science.
During his stay at the TU Munich he collaborates with Prof. Dr. Andrea Reichenberger on the philosophical significance of logical and foundational motives in the early history of quantum mechanics.