Ulrich Charpa

PhD, Habilitation, Research Professor at LBI London, is also affiliated with the MA programme Modern European Jewish History, Culture & Thought of the University of Sussex and with the Institute of Philosophy, Ruhr-University, Bochum. He has published nine books and numerous articles in academic journals and collections, mostly on history and philosophy of science as well as of the humanities. He advocates a conception of research progress that - based on epistemological reliabilism - emphasizes the role of expert knowledge and other competencies of the scientists/scholars involved. Apart from the LBI project on Jews in German-speaking Academia, he is currently working on 19th century methodology and on some systematic aspects of the relationship between research work and Jewish religion.

Among his books are:

- Philosophische Wissenschaftshistorie Grundsatzfragen / Verlaufsmodelle, Braunschweig/ Wiesbaden: Vieweg 1995

- Grundprobleme der Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Paderborn/München: UTB 1996.

- Wissen und Handeln - Grundzüge einer Forschungstheorie, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2001.

-German-speaking Jews in the Sciences in Modern Times as Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts, vol. 71, Tübingen 2006 (forthcoming) (co-editor).

Recent papers:

- "Emil Du Bois-Reymonds ‚Goethe und kein Ende'. Analyse einer Ablehnung", in: Wissen in Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. L. Danneberg and others, Tuebingen: Niemeyer 2003, pp. 220-239.

- "Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804-1881) - The History of Jewish Interest in Science and the Methodology of Microscopic Botany", in: Aleph - Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, vol. 3, 2003, pp. 213-245.

- "Eruw techumim - Fortschrittshandeln und Grenzziehung. Analogisierungen im Blick auf Talmud und Wissenschaft", in: Horizonte des Horizontbegriffs, ed. R. Elm, Sankt Augustin: Academia 2004.

- (with U. Deichmann), "Vertrauensvorschuß und wissenschaftliches Fehlhandeln - Eine reliabilistische Modellierung der Fälle Abderhalden, Goldschmidt, Moewus und Waldschmidt-Leitz", in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 27, 2004, pp.187-204.

- "Judentum und wissenschaftliche Forschung - Einstellungscluster im späten 19. Jahrhundert und ihr Fortwirken", in: Yearbook of the Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 175-198.

- (with U. Deichmann), Jews in the Sciences - Sciences and the Jews - The 19th and 20th Centuries: Introductory remarks in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 149-159.

- "Matthias Jakob Schleiden", in: Naturphilosophie im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. O. Breidbach and Th. Bach, Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 2004.

-"Kompetenzen und technischer Fortschritt - Eine alternative Betrachtungsweise und ihre Bezüge zur jüdischen Tradition", in: Der Zugang zur Technik in der Wissenschaft, ed. M. Kerner and Th. Müller, Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau (forthcoming).

-(with U. Deichmann) "Jewish Scientists as Geniuses and Epigones - Scientific Practices and Attitudes towards them: Albert Einstein, Ferdinand Cohn, Richard Goldschmidt", in: Studia Rosenthaliana (forthcoming).

-"Aaron Bernstein's 'nächster großer Reformator'. Einstein's Reduction of Jewish Religion to 'Enlightenment'-Metaphysics and the 'Endarkenment' of the origins of Relativity Theory", forthcoming in: German-speaking Jews in the Sciences in Modern Times (forthcoming) (see above).

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