Wissenschaftsphilosophie
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Principal Investigator D02
Member of the Board of Directors of ZiF, Director
Marie I. Kaiser has been researching and teaching as Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology since June 2018, where she was previously a junior professor. Marie I. Kaiser studied Philosophy and Biology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and completed her doctorate at the University of Cologne. She worked scientifically at the universities of Münster, Cologne and Geneva/Switzerland and was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota (USA) and the University of Calgary (Canada). In addition to the General Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics, she conducts research primarily in the field of Philosophy of the Life Sciences. In her research, she works in a strongly interdisciplinary manner, bringing together philosophical and biological perspectives in particular. Marie I. Kaiser is PI in TRR-SFB 212 on individualised niches and in GRK 2073 on the integration of ethics and epistemology of science, among others. Further information can be found here.
On 29 November 2019, Prof. Dr. Marie I. Kaiser was elected as the first Prorector for Human Resources Development and Equality at Bielefeld University. In addition to the topics of academic staff development and gender equality, the prorectorate also represents the cross-sectional topics of health and family friendliness.
General Philosophy of Science: Explanation, Reductionism, Causality, Complexity, Methods in Philosophy of Science, Interdisciplinarity, Science & Society, Normativity
Philosophy of Biology: Reductive explanation, causal models, mechanistic explanation, biological individuality, ecological niche, animal personality.
Metaphysics: Mechanisms, phenomena, part-whole relationships, biological dispositions, individuality/uniqueness.