The History of Technology’s main focus is the investigation of the intellectual and social dimensions of technology from a historical perspective. The issue at stake here is that any technology, if it is to succeed, must be designed to espouse the cultural and historical background of a society. This presupposes an understanding of the society and the historical transformation processes in which it is permanently involved. Thus, our primary mission is to cultivate such an insight within the engineering and natural sciences curricula at Technische Universität München.
In order to do so, the History of Technology builds a variety of bridges between engineering and the natural sciences on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other – be it in the interdisciplinary classes offered at Technische Universität, in joint research projects with research institutes based in and around Munich, or national and European research cooperation.
If these activities can be carried out successfully, it is only thanks to long-term cooperation within the fertile scientific arena in Munich as well as with national and international partner institutions.
- The umbrella organisation for these research activities is the Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology that brings together academic and museum-related institutions devoted to the history of science, medicine and technology.
- The large inter-university research centre linking these domains is located at the Deutsches Museum. It is on these stimulating and historic premises that the History of Technology is also housed.
As of October 2021, the History of Technology is part of the new School of Social Sciences and Technology, within the Department of Science, Technology and Society at TUM (formerly the Munich Center for Technology in Society, or MCTS), where it continues to conduct research together with the social sciences as well as the engineering sciences on technology and society.
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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.
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stoeltzn(at)sc.edu
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/philosophy/our_people/directory/stoeltzner_michael.php
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Stoeltzner
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.
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stoeltzn(at)sc.edu
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/philosophy/our_people/directory/stoeltzner_michael.php
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Stoeltzner
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.
