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Gereon Wolters Author & Editor

Christian Damböck is Privatdozent at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is recently working on an edition of Rudolf Carnap's diaries and scientific correspondence (FWF research grant P31716). His research interests are philosophy of science and the humanities in the 19th and 20th century in central Europe and the US; moral non-cognitivism and theories of democracy; philosophy of logic; the philosophies of Wilhelm Dilthey, Hermann Cohen, Chaim H. Steinthal, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Thomas Kuhn, and Wolfgang Stegmüller.

Gereon Wolters is professor emeritus of philosophy and history of science at the University of Konstanz and director of the Philosophical Archive. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science - Leopoldina and of the Academia Europea. His most recent publication that deals with Carnap is: “« Wrongful Life » Reloaded: Logico-Empiricism’s Philosophy of Biology 1934/36 (Prague/Paris/Copenhagen) - With Historico-Political Intermezzos”, in: Michel Bourdeau/Gerhard Heinzmann/Pierre Wagner (eds.), Sur la philosophie scientifique et l'unité de la science. Le congrès de Paris 1935 et son héritage. Actes du colloque de Cerisy,  Philosophia Scientiæ 22(3) 2018 (special issue), 233-255“.