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Ulrich Krohs
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Ulrich Krohs is now Professor of Philosophy - in particular philosophy of science and of nature - at the University of Münster, and has a
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Ulrich Krohs teaches philosophy at the University of Hamburg. He has studied biochemistry as well as philosophy, and started his career as a biochemist. Changing the field,
he has received his 'Habilitation' in philosophy (second thesis; post-doctoral research and teaching qualification). His current research interests are mainly located at the interface of both fields: philosophy and history of science; philosophy of nature and of technology; model theory; biomedical ethics; philosophy of cognition; epistemology. In addition, his teaching covered until now a range of topics from Ancient Greek philosophy, Kant, philosophy of language, and logics, to workshop-like seminars on philosophical writing and coaching for MA and PhD candidates.
address
seit WS 2012/13:
Philosophisches Seminar
Universität Münster
Domplatz 23
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Raum 101
Fon: +49 251 83-24464
Fax: +49 251 83-29321
email:
ulrich.krohs@uni-muenster.de
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curriculum vitae
Universitary education
- 1982 - 1989 Biochemistry at the "Eberhard-Karls-Universität" Tübingen, holding a stipend awarded by the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
- 1989 - 1994 Philosophy at the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule" Aachen
- 1994 - 1995 Philosophy at the University of Hamburg
Degrees and titles
- Diploma: Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, 1989
- PhD: Dr. rer. nat., University of Aachen, 1994
- Habilitation (venia legendi): Philosophy, University of Hamburg, 2004
- Professor, University of Hamburg, 2011
Other qualification
- Certificate of Higher Education, University of Hamburg, 2007
Affiliations
- 1987 AFRC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Sussex, Brighton
- 1988 - 1989 Institut für Chemische Pflanzenphysiologie, University of Tübingen
- 1989 - 1993 Institute for Biological Information Transduction (IBI-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich
- 1994 - 2003 Philosophy Department, University of Hamburg: Research projects on Plato, on the philosophy of modal logic, and on the philosophy of bio-sciences. From 1996 on Lecturer ("Lehrbeauftragter") of philosophy
- 2001 - 2002 Co-operation with the Institute for medical care management and health sciences, University of Bayreuth, project on the ethics of internet-based medical advice
- 2004 - 2007 Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria: Senior Research Fellow
- 2005 - 2006 (Winter term) Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna: External lecturer
- since 2004 "Privatdozent" of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg (on leave summer 2004 - summer 2006)
- academic year 2008/09: Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh: Visiting Fellow
- Sept 2009: Researcher at the FESt: Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e. V., Heidelberg
- 2009-2011: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) of philosophy of science, University of Bielefeld
- 2011-2012: Visiting professor (Dozent I) of philosophy and history of science, University of Bern
- since Sept 2012: professor of philosophy, particularly philosophy of science and of nature, University of Münster
memberships
- since 2005: Editorial board member of Biological Theory (MIT Press, now Springer)
- since May 2007: Coopted member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg (moving to Klosterneuburg), Austria
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publications
Philosophy:
Krohs, U. (2012): Convenience experimentation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43, 52-57.
- (2011): Functions and fixed types: Biological functions in the post-adaptationist era. Applied Ontology 6, 125-139.
- (2010): Epistemic consequences of two different strategies for decomposing biological networks, in: Suárez M., Dorato, M. & Rèdei, M. (eds.): EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences. Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association. Springer, Berlin, 153-162.
- (2010): Dys-, mal- et non-: l’autre face de la fonctionnalité, in: Gayon, J., Ricqlés, A. de, & Mossio, M. (eds.):
Les Fonctions: Des Organismes aux Artefacts. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 337-351.
- (2009): Functions as based on a concept of general design. Synthese 166, 69-89.
- (2009): Structure and coherence of two-model-descriptions of technical artefacts. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 13, 150-161.
- (2009): The cost of modularity, in: Krohs U. & Kroes P. (eds.): Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 259-276.
Krohs, U. & Kroes, P. (2009): Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions, in: Krohs U. & Kroes P. (eds.): Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 3-12.
Krohs, U. (2009): Libertarismus und wissenschaftlich aufgeklärter Determinismus. Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 20, 41-43.
- (2008): How digital computer simulations explain real-world processes. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22, 277-292.
- (2008): Co-Designing social systems by designing technical artifacts, in: Vermaas, P. E., Kroes, P., Light, A. & Moore, S. A. (eds.): Philosophy and Design. From Engineering to Architecture. Springer, Dordrecht, 233-245.
- (2008): Welche Fragen beantwortet der ‚intell igent-design’-Kreationismus? in: Langthaler, R. (ed.): Evolutionstheorie – Schöpfungsglaube. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 61-80.
Krohs, U. & Callebaut, W. (2007): Data without models merging with models without data, in: Boogerd, F. C., Bruggeman, F. J., Hofmeyr, J.-H. S. & Westerhoff, H. V. (eds.): Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 181-213.
Krohs, U. (2007): Wo im Krankheitsbegriff steckt die Norm? Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 18, 114-115.
- (2007): Der Funktionsbegriff in der Biologie, in: Bartels, A. & Stöckler, M. (eds.): Wissenschaftstheorie. Ein Studienbuch. Mentis, Paderborn, 287-306.
- (2007): The influence of measuring technology on model building in molecular biology (abstract), in: Boon M. & Waelbers K. (eds.), Proceedings of the First Biennial Conference SPSP 2007. University of Twente, Enschede 2007, ISBN 978-90-812194-1-9, 75.
- (2006): Philosophies of particular biological research programs. Biological Theory 1, 182-187.
- (2006): The changeful fate of a groundbreaking insight: the Darwinian fitness principle caught in different webs of belief. Jahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur/ Yearbook for European Culture of Science 2 (2006), 107-124.
– (2005): Biologisches Design, in: Krohs, U. & Toepfer, G. (eds.): Philosophie der Biologie. Eine Einführung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main, 52-69.
– (2005): Wissenschaftstheoretische Rekonstruktionen, in: Krohs, U. & Toepfer, G. (eds.): Philosophie der Biologie. Eine Einführung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main, 299-316.
– (2005): The conceptual basis of a biological dispute about the temporal order of evolutionary events, in: Stadler, F. & Stöltzner, M. (eds.): Time and History/Zeit und Geschichte. Kirchberg, 152-154.
Krohs, U. & Toepfer, G. (eds.) (2005): Philosophie der Biologie. Eine Einführung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M.
Krohs, U. (2004): Eine Theorie biologischer Theorien: Status und Gehalt von Funktionsaussagen und informationstheoretischen Modellen. Springer, Berlin.
- (2004): Wer verantwortet Online-Rat durch medizinische Expertensysteme?, in: Jähn, K.H. und Nagel, E. (Hrsg.): e-Health. Springer, Berlin, 326-330.
- (2004): Angewandte Ethik e-Health, in: Jähn, K.H. und Nagel, E. (Hrsg.): e-Health. Springer, Berlin, 331-336.
- (2003): Is natural design a kind of design? (abstract), in: Álvarez, E., Bosch, R. & Villamil, L. (Hrsg.), Volume of Abstracts, 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Oviedo, August 7-13, 2003). Departamento de Filosofia, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, ISBN 84-600-9913-X, 369-370.
- (2002): How to act right in telemedicine - An outline of applied ethics (abstract). Eur.J.Med.Res. 7 (Suppl. I), 41.
- (1998): Platons Dialektik im Sophistes vor dem Hintergrund des Parmenides. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 52, 237-256.
in preparation:
- (forthcoming 2012) Systems biology: Philosophical and foundational issues, in: Dubitzky W., Wolkenhauer O., Cho K.-H., Yokota H. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, ca. 8 Vol. Springer, New York.
Encyclopedia entries:
- (2010): Funktion, in: Sandkühler, H. J. (ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie, 2nd, extended ed., Meiner, Hamburg, 755-758.
- (2009): Funktion und Zweck, in: Jordan, S. & Nimtz, C. (eds.): Lexikon Philosophie. Hundert Grundbegriffe. Reclam, Ditzingen, 99-101.
in preparation:
- (forthcoming 2012) Emergence, in: Dubitzky W., Wolkenhauer O., Cho K.-H., Yokota H. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, ca. 8 Vol. Springer, New York.
Biosciences:
- (1995): Damped oscillations in photosensory transduction of Halobacterium salinarium induced by repellent light stimuli. J. Bacteriol. 177, 3067-3070.
- (1994): Sensitivity of Halobacterium salinarium to attractant light stimuli does not change periodically. FEBS Lett. 351, 133-136.
- (1994): Das Verhalten von Halobacterium salinarium nach stufenförmigen Lichtreizen. Experimente zur zellulären Signalverarbeitung. Berlin (Köster) 1994, zugl. Dissertation RWTH Aachen.
- (1993): Sensitivity of halobacteria to attractant light stimuli does not change periodically (meeting abstract). Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 374, 726.
Krohs, U. & Metzner, H. (1990): Overall kinetics of photosystem II: pH dependence and deuterium isotope effect. Bioelectrochem. Bioenerg. 23, 141-151.
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presentations
2011
- May 2nd, 2011: Biologisches Verstehen; Vorstellungsvortrag im Berufungsverfahren Professur für Wissenschaftstheorie und Naturphilosophie, Universität Münster.
- June 2011: Scaling Up: Engineering similarity with and without the help of mathematics, Workshop 'Progress by Design: Mathematization From the Enlightenment To the PC', June 24-25, ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
- June 2011: Holism in systems biology: Demanded by the system or due to the epistemic approach?, BiCoDa Conference 'Research in its Technological Setting', June 29 - July 2, ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
- August 2011: Convenience experimentation, ESF Systems Biology Workshop, August 18-20, 2011, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
- September 3rd, 2011: 'Erklärung' in Natur, Kultur und Technik; ProScientia Sommerakademie, Schloss Seggau, Österreich.
2010
- January 2010: Is the extended human organism still an organism? Workshop 'Plastic Human Boundaries - Nature and Environment of the Human Organism', January 21-23, 2010, FESt, Heidelberg.
- February 10th, 2010: Picturing biological functions. Lecture series 'Celebrating Life Images: In Honor of Charles Darwin', University of Tartu, Science Centre, Tartu, Estonia.
- April 2010: Convenience experimentation and the quest for scientific hypotheses, Workshop Data-driven research in the life sciences, April 15-16, 2010, egenis, University of Exeter.
- June 2010: Der Organismus-Status des (medizin)technisch manipulierten Menschen,
Workshop 'Jenseits des Menschen', June 11-12, ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
- June 21st, 2010: Die Entstehung einer wissenschaftlichen Anwendung, Kolloquium des Graduiertenkollegs 'Auf dem Weg in die Wissensgesellschaft: Wissenschaft in Anwendungs- und Beratungskontexten,' University of Bielefeld.
- October 2010: Semantic explanation in the biological sciences, Workshop 'Types of explanation in the special sciences – the case of biology and history,' September 30–October 3, Universität Köln.
- October 22nd, 2010: Maßstabsvergrüßerung: Auf dem Weg zu einer Wissenschaftstheorie der Technikwissenschaften, (22. Oktober 2010); Vorstellungsvortrag im Berufungsverfahren W3-Professur mit Leitungsfunktion für Wissenschaftstheorie und Technikphilosophie, Universität Stuttgart.
2009
- March 2009: Data driven modeling in systems biology: Explanatory goals and epistemic shortcomings, Models and Simulations 3, March 6-8, 2009, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
- June 30th, 2009: Denkräume und Grenzen der Evolutionstheorie, Ringvorlesung '150 Jahre Darwin(ismus): On the Origin of Species (1859) - eine kritische Reflexion', Summer semester 2009, Universität Hamburg.
- July 2009: Non-explanatory biological mechanisms, 2009 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), July 12-16, Brisbane, Australia.
- July 22nd, 2009: Was sind und was sollen Mechanismen?, Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld.
- September 2009: Datengeleitete biologische Forschung: Verbindung des Praktischen mit dem Nutzlosen?,
GAP.7: Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie, September 14-17, Bremen.
- October 2009: Functions, Mechanisms, and Types,
EPSA09: Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, October 21-24, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- October 28th, 2009: Evolution mit und ohne Darwin, Ringvorlesung 'In Darwins Schatten', Summer semester 2009, Universität Bielefeld.
- November 6th, 2009: Die Entstehung der Arten: Über die Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Revolution, Evangelische Akademie Loccum.
- December 16th, 2009: Epigenetics: between adaptation and adaptivity, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück.
2008
- January 22nd, 2008: Der Funktionsbegriff in der Biologie, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bremen.
- March 2008: Funktion oder Valenz? Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Analyse funktionaler Modelle von Ökosystemen, Workshop
Grenzen der Ökologie, March 3-5, Benediktbeuern.
- March 2008: Können die Biowissenschaften den Menschen erklären? Was ist Wissenschaft? Darstellung und Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Wissenschaftsphilosophie, March 17-19, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn.
- May 2008: Dys-, mal- and non-: the other side of functionality, Colloque 'La notion de fonction: des sciences de la vie à la technologie/The Notion of Function: from the Life Sciences to Technology'. May 21-23, Collège de France, Paris.
- June 2008: 'Die Wirklichkeit' in der Biologie, Tagung 'Wie realistisch sind die Wissenschaften?', June 13-15, Evangelische Akademie im Rheinland, Bonn.
- September 2008: organization of the symposium Styles of Systems Biological Thinking, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, September 10-12, 2008, Vienna (not attending).
- September 16th, 2008: Mechanistic explanation in top-down systems biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
- November 2008: The roots of organismic thinking in systems biology, 2008 History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 6-9, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.
- November 2008: Conservative and non-conservative models in molecular biology and the concept of genetic information, PSA 2008, 25th Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, November 6-8, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.
2007
- May 25th, 2007: Materielle Kultur in technisch-funktionalem Kontext, Perspektiven der Kulturphilosophie, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus.
- July 2007: How systems biology makes sense of
(gen)omics, 2007 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), July 25-29, Exeter, United Kingdom.
- August 2007: The influence of measuring technology on model building in molecular biology,
First biennial conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2007, August 23-25, Enschede, The Netherlands.
- September 2007: Naturalizing functional norms – different approaches and their limits (Keynote lecture),
Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop '07, September 1-5, Kazimierz, Poland.
- November 2007: Epistemic consequences of two different strategies for decomposing biological networks,
Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, November 15-17, Madrid, Spain.
- November 20th, 2007: Functions in bio-technological hybrid systems and biofacts. Philosophy Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
2006
- February 21st, 2006: Function and malfunction: no need to refer to evolutionary history, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1, Paris, France
- June 2006: A priori measurable worlds,
Models and Simulations, June 12-13, CPNSS (London School of Economics) and IHPST (Université Paris I), Université Paris VI & VII, Paris, France
- July 18th, 2006: Erkenntnis über Funktionen: Ein Band zwischen den Lebens-, Sozial- und Technikwissenschaften, Zentrale Einrichtung für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsethik, Universität Hannover, Hannover
- September 2006: The cost of modularity, talk at the workshop:
2005
- January 20th, 2005: A common structural feature of biological theories and technological explanations, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
- July 2005: Applied Biology: Where Teleology Really Enters the Stage, 2005 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), July 13-17, Guelph, Canada
- July 2005: Co-Designing Society by Designing Artefacts: a Conceptual Approach, 14th Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, July 20-22, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
- August 2005: Scientific Understanding as Related to Other Kinds of Understanding, Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding, August 25-27, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- August 2005: Biological Functions as Based on a Notion of General Design, Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP5), August 27-31, Lisbon, Portugal
- November 2005: Welche Fragen beantwortet der 'in telligent-design'-Kreationismus?; Symposium "Evolution – Schöpfungsglaube", November 18-19, Institute of Christian Philosophy, University of Vienna.
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