WOLFGANG PIETSCH

I am a philosopher of science and technology affiliated with the Munich Center for Technology in Society at Technical University Munich. Before turning to philosophy, I studied physics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and science writing at Freie Universität Berlin. My PhD thesis was on fundamental concepts in statistical mechanics centering around the problem of the arrow of time in physics. I have been a visiting researcher in various places including the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh and the Institute for Public Knowledge of New York University. I was a Poiesis Fellow of the BMW foundation and have been for many years the vice chairman of the working group on philosophy of physics of the German Physical Society.

Primary location: München Germany