Roman Frigg

Roman Frigg (born 1972 in Switzerland) is a Swiss philosopher and professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, where he also directs its Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.[1] He is also visiting professor at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University.[2] In 2016 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.[3]

Frigg obtained his MSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel and his PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science under Nancy Cartwright and Carl Hoefer, with the thesis entitled Re-presenting Scientific Representation.[4]

  1. ^ Frigg, Roman; Professor Roman Frigg at lse.ac.uk. Accessed 2017-09-07.
  2. ^ "Frigg, Roman - Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) - LMU Munich". www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  3. ^ Professor Roman Frigg has won the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s prestigious Bessel Research Award at lse.ac.uk, 2016/05/10.
  4. ^ Frigg, Roman (2003). Re-presenting scientific representation (phd thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).