About me
- I am professor (emerita) at the TU Dortmund (Germany), where I held the chair of theoretical philosophy from 1997 to 2019. My background is in high energy physics (PhD 1987) and traditional philosophy of nature (PhD 1986). My work was strongly influenced by the supervisor of my postdoctoral thesis, the philosopher of science Erhard Scheibe (1927–2010), and by two decades of collaboration with the physicist and philosopher Peter Mittelstaedt (1929–2014)
- Currently, I am PI of an interdisciplinary project on machine learning and mechanistic explanation in astroparticle physics (with Wolfgang Rhode, TU Dortmund), supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG):
https://app.physik.tu-dortmund.de/en/research/philosophy-of-astroparticle-physics/
- Currently, I am PI of an interdisciplinary project on machine learning and mechanistic explanation in astroparticle physics (with Wolfgang Rhode, TU Dortmund), supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG):
- My books focus on the conceptual foundations of particle physics, Kant’s cosmological antinomy, and the philosophy of neuroscience.
- I edited volumes on mechanistic explanations (with Gregor Schiemann), emergence and reduction in the physics of condensed matter and complex systems (with Margaret Morrison), and the history of astroparticle physics (with Wolfgang Rhode).
- Further, I edited English translations of works of Erhard Scheibe, and two posthumous books of my late husband, the Hegel scholar Hans Friedrich Fulda (1930-2023)
Contact: brigitte.falkenburg@tu-dortmund.de