Short CV
1984 Doctorate, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1989 Habilitation, University of Constance
1994 – 1998 Professor for Philosophy, University Heidelberg
1998 – today Professor for Philosophy, University Bielefeld
2008 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
His research interests include the philosophy of science, in particular "Theory change in the sciences" and the conceptual relations between different theories as well as the current question of the extent to which the strong exploitation pressure on application-oriented research threatens to damage them in their epistemological core.