Author: Christian Damböck

Christian Damböck studied philosophy in Vienna with added focuses on mathematics and history. He received his Ph D at the University of Vienna in 2005 with a dissertation on philosophical logic. From 2002 to 2011 he worked at the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna) in several research projects, all funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and directed by Friedrich Stadler. Recently he started working as an FWF researcher in the research project “Wilhelm Dilthey and Rudolf Carnap” (FWF research grant P24615) which is also located at the Institute Vienna Circle. In Spring term 2015 he will be Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. Christian’s main areas of research are history of philosophy and philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th century in central Europe; methodological questions in philosophy and philosophy of science; history and philosophy of logic; philosophy of the humanities; the philosophies of Wilhelm Dilthey, Hermann Cohen, Rudolf Carnap, Thomas Kuhn and Wolfgang Stegmüller.