Volker Peckhaus, Curriculum Vitae

1955
8.July, born in Düsseldorf.

1974
Abitur.

1974-76
Military service.

1976-78
Study of mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen.

1978-84
Study of History, Philosophy and German at the RWTH Aachen.

1984
26 October, M.A. (Medieval and Modern History, Philosophy, German Philology), RWTH Aachen.

1984-90
Post-graduate studies in Philosophy, Modern History and German Linguistics at the RWTH Aachen, since winter term 1985/86 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

1985-90
"Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter" in a research project granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft entitled "Case Studies towards a Social History of Formal Logic" (director: Prof. Dr. Christian Thiel) at the Interdisziplinären Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

1989
Organization of the symposiums D1 at the International Congress of History of Science, Hamburg/Munich entitled "Towards a Social History of Science and Scientific Disciplines".

1990
26 Feburary, Ph.D. "summa cum laude" (thesis: Hilbertprogramm und Kritische Philosophie. Das Göttinger Modell interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mathematik und Philosophie; assessments by Prof. Dr. Christian Thiel an Prof. Dr. Eva Picardi, Bologna).

1990-1996
"Wissenschaftlicher Assistent" at the Institut für Philosophie, University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

1991-1996
Collaboration in a research project granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, entitled "Methodological Foundation of the Historiography of Scientific Disciplines" (directors: Prof. Dr. Christian Thiel, Erlangen; Prof. Dr. Lothar Kreiser, Leipzig; Prof. Dr. Günter Schenk, Halle a.S.)

1991-2002
Computer equipment manager at the Institut für Philosophie and at the Interdisziplinäres Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

1993
Member of the WAP committee (program for computer equipment) at the Philosophical Faculty I. Member of the program committee for the symposium "Religion and Science" of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Heidelberg, 12–14 May 1994.

1995
Organization of the symposiums "Perspectives of the Historiography of Scientific Disciplines" at the Interdisziplinäres Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, University Erlangen-Nürnberg (6–8 July 1995).

1996
5 February, Habilitation in Philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty I, University Erlangen-Nürnberg (thesis: Logik und Struktur. Leibniz und die Wiederentdeckung der formalen Logik im 19. Jahrhundert; assessments by Prof. Dr. Theodor Ebert, Erlangen; Prof. Dr. Gottfried Gabriel, Jena; Prof. Dr. Eberhard Knobloch, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Christian Thiel, Erlangen).

25 March, "venia legendi" for Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, "Privatdozent".

1999
November, DFG grant for the research project "Wissenschaftliche Biographie von Ernst Zermelo (1871-1953)" durch die DFG. Das Projekt wird zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Institut für mathematische Logik der Universität Freiburg i.Br. (DFG EB 60/2-1; EB 60/2-2).

2000
1 April to 30 September, Professor of Philosophy (substitute C 3) at the Interdisziplinären Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

1 October 2000 to 31 March 2001, Professor of Philosophy (substitute C 4) at Fachbereich 1 der Universität Gesamthochschule Essen .

Since 1 October, Privatdozent for Philosophy at the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

2001
1 April 2001 to 24 November 2003, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Fachbereich 1 der Universität Gesamthochschule Paderborn.

June-December, member of the International Steering Comittee for the First International Conference of the New Millenium on History of Mathematical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 20 to 23 December 2001.

2002
28 April, "außerplanmäßiger Professor", University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
20 August, call on the professorship for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Paderborn.
25 November, appointment as university professor.

2003
19 March, member of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University Paderborn.

2003-2005
"Formal Languages as Universal Languages and the Orgins of Modern Logic", project related exchange of researcher with Argentina, granted in the by the programme DAAD-Antorchas 2003, application with Prof. Dr. Javier Legris (Buenos Aires) and Prof. Dr. Oscar M. Esquisabel (La Plata), involved Marcello Ghin, M.A., Paderborn.

2004
18 September, elected member of the Governing Board of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften" (DVMLG).
23 October, elected member of the Scientific Board of the "Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte".

Memberships in Scientific Organizations

Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie (since 1996); Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (since 1996); Deutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften (since 1992, since 2004 Member of the Governing Board); Deutscher Hochschul-Verband (1996); Fachgruppe Geschichte der Mathematik der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (since 1993); Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wissenschaften, Berlin (since 1991); Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (since 1992); Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft, Hannover (since 1994), HOPOS (seit 2000).

Membership in Editorial Boards

Editor-in-Chief (together with John W. Dawson) of the journal History and Philosophy of Logic (since 2006, member of the Editorial Board since 2004).

Since 1990 Member of the Editorial Board of the journal The Review of Modern Logic (bis 2003 Modern Logic).

Since 1994 Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historia Mathematica.

Since 1998 Member of the Comité Scientific of the journal Philosophia Scientiae. Travaux d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences (Nancy).

Since 2002 Review editor for the history of logic of the journal Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.

From No. 1/2005 on (co-)editor of the journal Mathematische Semesterberichte.

Since 2006 Member of the Editorial Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the Philosophisches Jahrbuchs der Görres-Gesellschaft.

Since 2007 member of the Editorial Board of the book series History of Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

 

Collaboration in Long Term Projects

Since 1995 Reviewer of the Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete.

Seit 1996 Mitarbeiter an dem Projekt "The Development of Modern Logic", Managing Editor: Leila Haaparanta, Helsinki.

Since 1997 Collaborator in preparing the second edition of the Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, managing editor Jürgen Mittelstraß, Konstanz.

Since 1999 Erlangen Database for the History of Formal Logic.

Since 2000 Collaboration in the Edition Project Oskar Becker, directed by Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, Hagen; Carl-Friedrich Gethmann, Essen; Jürgen Mittelstraß, Konstanz.

Since 2000 Collaboration in the Edition Project Paul Bernays directed by Wilfried Sieg, Pittsburgh

Since 2002 Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews.

Invited lectures abroad

Nancy (F), Wien (A), Zaragoza (SP), Breslau (PL), Minneapolis (MN, USA), Bern (CH), Northridge (CA, USA), Buffalo (NY, USA), Hamilton (Ont., CAN), University Park (PA, USA), Austin (TX, USA), New York City (NY, USA), Lausanne (CH), Leeds (GB), Méréville (bei Nancy) (F), Ottawa (Ont., CAN), Helsinki (FIN), Boston (MA, USA), Posen (PL), Krakau (PL), La Plata (Argentinien), Buenos Aires (Argentinien), Roskilde (DK), Tampere (FIN), New Delhi (Indien), Neuchâtel (CH), Oviedo (Sp).

Assessments, Peer Reviews

Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Bulletin of Symbolic Logic; Canada Council for the Arts; Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology; Erkenntnis; Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Technológia (Argentinien); Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Österreich); Historia Mathematica; History and Philosophy of Logic; Logic and Logical Philosophy (Torún); Mathematische Semesterberichte; Modern Logic; NTM. Internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Ethik der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin; Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques; The Philosophical Quarterly (St Andrews); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy; Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Synthese.