Prof. Dr. Gerd Graẞhoff

Institut für Philosophie (HU)

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Gerd Graßhoff – Professor for History and Philosophy of Science, formerly at Bern University, now Professor for History of Ancient Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2010 Gerd Graßhoff has been director of the Excellence Cluster Topoi. His research fields cover the history of ancient science from Babylonian astronomy to Modern Times, methods of scientific discovery and philosophical models of causal reasoning.
 

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philosophischen Fakultät I
Institut für Philosophie

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Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

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+49 30 2093-99066

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+49 30 2093-99080
 
 

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"Antrittsvorlesung: Verteilte Erkenntnis - wenn man etwas nur weiß, weil man weiß, dass andere es wissen"

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"The Usage of Sundials for the Data of Ptolemy’s Geography"
part of the Conference Ancient Sundials, Astronomical Instruments and Geographical Knowledge

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"Von Wegen und Orten zu geographischen Koordinaten: die Genese der Ptolemäischen Geographie"
part of the Conference Politische Räume in vormodernen Gesellschaften: Gestaltung, Wahrnehmung, Funktion

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Publications

 
In Topoi

2012MetaATLAS. Studien zur Generierung, Validierung und Kommunikation von Wissen in einer modernen Forschungskollaboration
Graßhoff, Gerd
2012Die ATLAS-Collaboration als wissenschaftlicher Autor
Graßhoff, Gerd
2011Babylonian Meteorological Observations and the Empirical Basis of Ancient Science
Graßhoff, Gerd
Babylonian_Meteorological_Observations_and_the_Empirical_Basis_of_ Ancient_Science_2011.pdf
2011In pursuit of formaldehyde: Causally explanatory models and falsification
Nickelsen, Kärin. Graßhoff, Gerd
NickelsenGrasshoff2011.pdf
2011Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experiments
Graßhoff, Gerd
Graßhoff2011.pdf
2010Mit allen Wassern gewaschen? Galileis Theorie der Gezeiten
Graßhoff, Gerd
Graßhoff_Galileis Theorie der Gezeiten_2010.pdf
2010Die ATLAS-Collaboration als wissenschaftlicher Autor
Graßhoff, Gerd
Graßhoff_ATLAS-Collaboration_2010.pdf
 
further Publications

2008 Gerd Graßhoff, "Innovation – Begriffe und Thesen", in: Gerd Graßhoff – Rainer C. Schwinges (Hrsg.), Innovationskultur : von der Wissenschaft zum Produkt, Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag,13–32. (dnb-info)
2008 Gerd Graßhoff: "Natural Law and Celestial Regularities from Copernicus to Kepler" In: Lorraine Daston – Michael Stolleis (eds.), Natural Law and laws of nature in early modern Europe: jurisprudence, theology, moral and natural philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 143–161.
2006/2009 Gerd Graßhoff – Alfred Stückelberger (eds.): Klaudios Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie : griechisch - deutsch ; Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung, Index. Basel: Schwabe. Teil 1. Einleitung und Buch 1 - 4 (2006); Teil 2. Buch 5 - 8 und Indices (2006); Erg.-Bd. Mit einer Edition des Kanons bedeutender Städte (2009). (dnb-info)
2005 Gerd Graßhoff – Samuel Portmann – Adrian Wüthrich: "Minimal assumption derivation of a Bell-type inequality," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56: 663–680 / axi140.
2003 Michael Baumgartner – Gerd Graßhoff: Kausalität und kausales Schliessen : eine Einführung mit interaktiven Übungen, Bern: Bern Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. (dnb-info)
2002 Gerd Graßhoff – Hubert Treiber: Naturgesetz und Naturrechtsdenken im 17. Jahrhundert : Kepler - Bernegger - Descartes - Cumberland, Baden-Baden : Nomos. (dnb-info)
1997 Gerd Graßhoff: "Normal Star Observations in Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries" In: Noel Swerdlow (ed.), Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination, Cambridge, Mass. – London: MIT Press.
1990 Gerd Graßhoff: The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue. New York u.a.: Springer. (dnb-info)
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

12 June 1957 Born in Homberg/Niederrhein (Moers), Germany
  Academic Positions
Since October 2010 Director of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Professor for History of Ancient Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002 Research semester at the University of California at Berkeley, USA
1999 – 2010 Full Professor for the History of Science and Director of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Member of the faculties of science and humanities
1997/98 Temporary professorship for the History of Science at the University of Göttingen, Germany
WS 1995/96 Temporary professorship for Theoretical Philosophy at the Philosophical Seminary of the University of Hamburg
1995 – 1999 Senior Research Assistant for Historical epistemology at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
1988 – 95 Assistant Professor C 1 at the Philosophical Seminary of the University of Hamburg, Germany
1990 – 1991 Minerva Stipend at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv, Israel
1987-1990 Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
1986/87 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
1983 – 1986 Research Assistant at the Philosophical Seminary of the University of Hamburg, Germany with Professor Lothar Schäfer
  Academic Degrees
1995 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: Die Kunst wissenschaftlichen Entdeckens – Grundzüge einer Theorie epistemischer Systeme.
1986 Dr. rer. nat. Dissertation: „Die Geschichte des Ptolemäischen Sternenkatalogs. Zur Genesis des Sternenverzeichnisses aus Buch VII und VIII des Almagest“ at the Institute for the History of Science, Hamburg. Referee: Ch. Scriba, A. Kleinert,(J. Dobrzycki, Warschau)
1982/83 Magister Artium M. A. in Philosophy
1977 – 1978 First degrees in Mathematics (Bochum), Physics (Bochum), Philosophy (Bochum)
  Education and Academic Studies
1976 - 1985 Studies of Philosophy, Physics and Mathematics in Bochum, Hamburg, Oxford (St. John’s College with P.M.S. Hacker, G. Baker, W. Newton-Smith), MIT Cambridge (Th. Kuhn)