Jürgen Mittelstraß

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Jürgen Mittelstraß (born 11 October 1936 in

In 1970 Mittelstraß became a professor of philosophy in the University of Konstanz and from 1970 to 2005 he was a full professor of philosophy of science at Konstanz.

He is the editor of the Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie (4 volumes, 1980–1996; second edition 2005–2018, 8 volumes).^[1]

Academic recognition

Mittelstraß is member of numerous scientific and philosophical societies and has received several awards. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from six universities, the

He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (1988).^[2]

Private life

Mittelstraß is married and has four daughters.

Awards

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (German Research Foundation
  , 1989)
• Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
  (1993)
• Merit Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) (1999)
• Arthur Burkhardt Prize (1992)
• Lorenz Oken Medal (Society of German Scientists and Physicians, 1998)
• Award of the Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation (2000)
• Werner Heisenberg Medal (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2000)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (2006)
• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
  (2011)
• Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy^[3] (University of Pittsburgh, 2012)

Major works

• Die Rettung der Phänomene (1962, Dissertation)
• Neuzeit und Aufklärung (1970,
  ISBN 3-11-001825-X
  )
• Die Möglichkeit von Wissenschaft (1974,
  ISBN 3-518-07662-0
  )
• Wissenschaft als Lebensform (1982,
  ISBN 3-518-27976-9
• Der Flug der Eule (1989,
  ISBN 3-518-28396-0
  )
• Die unzeitgemäße Universität (1994,
  ISBN 3-518-28759-1
  )
• Die Häuser des Wissens (1998,
  ISBN 3-518-28990-X
  )
• Wissen und Grenzen (2001,
  ISBN 3-518-29166-1
  )
• Wem gehört das Sterben?, in:
  ISBN 978-3-8329-3171-1
  )

References

1. ^ Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie Bd. 8: Th–Z. Springer Verlag. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
2. ^ "Jürgen Mittelstrass". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
3. ^ "Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy | Philosophy | University of Pittsburgh".

• "Jürgen Mittelstraß und Christiane Woopen in UNESCO-Gremien berufen" [Jürgen Mittelstraß and Christiane Woopen appointed to UNESCO bodies] (in German). German Commission for UNESCO. July 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-02.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jürgen Mittelstraß.

• Jürgen Mittelstraß in the German National Library catalogue
• Homepage von Mittelstraß
• Article 'On Transdisciplinarity' at the website of the Holy See