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Stephan Hartmann is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion at LMU Munich, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). From 2007 to 2012 he worked at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he was Chair in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Before moving to Tilburg, he was Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. He was President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA, 2013-2017) and President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP, 2014-2017). In 2016, he has been elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and in 2019 he has been elected as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2020, he became a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). His primary research and teaching areas are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, formal epistemology, social epistemology and (Bayesian) cognitive science. He published numerous articles and the books Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens, OUP 2003) and Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Jan Sprenger, OUP 2019). His current research interests include the philosophy and psychology of reasoning and argumentation, the philosophy of physics (esp. the philosophy of open quantum systems) and formal social epistemology (esp. models of deliberation).

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