Roman Frigg
Professor of Philosophy at The London School of Economics and Political Science
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- The London School of Economics and Political Science
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
Roman Frigg is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. He is the winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a permanent visiting professor in the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and he held visiting appointments in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario, the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Utrecht, the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science of the University of Sydney, and the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Barcelona. He was associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and member of the steering committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association. He currently serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards.
Roman holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of London and masters degrees both in theoretical physics and philosophy from the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research interests lie in general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, and he has published papers on climate change, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, randomness, chaos, complexity, probability, scientific realism, computer simulations, modelling, scientific representation, reductionism, confirmation, and the relation between art and science. His current work focuses on predictability and climate change, the foundation of statistical mechanics, and the nature of scientific models and theories.
Videos
LSE Research: Science and Philosophy of Science
Roman Frigg: Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice
MSc Philosophy of Science
LSE Philosophy: Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
Roman FRIGG: Anatomy and identity: The inner life of a model
Roman Frigg (LSE) 'Scientific Modelling. A Primer'
CS4 talk Roman Frigg
NIETZSCHE PHILOSOPHY, CHAOS THEORY & SOCIETY W/ ROMAN FRIGG | SOC PODCAST EPISODE #39
CS4 interview with Dr Roman Frigg
Episode 21 - Roman Frigg
The Sigma Club
LSE Philosophy: Roman Frigg
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