Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle

Secr. H 23
Straße des 17. Juni 135

10623 Berlin
Room: H 2533
Tel.: +49-30-314-73815, 314-24016
Fax: 314-25962
E-Mail: Friedrich.Steinle(at)TU-Berlin.de

Office hours during summer semester 2020:

Tuesday, 13.00 h - 14.30 h (telephone consultation)

No office hour on June 2.

During summer semester 2020, office hours will NOT take place personally. Please call Prof. Steinle on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Phone number: +49 (0) 30 - 314- 24016.

Alternaively, please ask for an appointment for a videochat (tubmeeting/WebEx) via friedrich.steinle[at]tu-berlin.de

Office hours during lecture free period (only with appointment via nina.krampitz(at)tu-berlin.de)

Thu, 27 August, 14-16h

Tue, 22 September, 13-15h

Thu, 8 Oktober, 11-13h

Dates for oral exams:

Mon, July 13, 2020 (Video)

Fri, August 28, 2020

Wed, October 28, 2020

To schedule an examination date, please contact the chair's secretary from the beginning of august 2020.

Important note: Please register your module examination via QISPOS or at the examination office on time and have the corresponding confirmation (QISPOS: print-out of the examination over-view; Examination office: yellow piece of paper with the signature of the examination office) with you on the examination date. Without this confirmation, the examination cannot take place.

Short Biography

• Since 2009: professor of History of Science at Technische Universität Berlin
• 2004-2009: professor of History (focus History of Science and Technology) at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Director of the „Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies: normative and historical foundations” (IZWT)“
• 2004 Professeur des universités (Histoire et Épistémologie des sciences), Université Lyon I
• 2001 and 2003-04: Temporary replacement of the Chair of History of Science and Technology, Stuttgart University
• 2002: Temporary replacement of the Interfaculty Chair of History and Philosophy of Science, Bern University
• 2000 Habilitation at TU Berlin, ‚venia legendi‘ in History and Philosophy of Science
• 1998-99 Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science, Cambridge, MA
• 1997-2004 Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin; from 2002 on funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation
• 1996 Teaching position at the Institute for History of Science, Hamburg University
• 1994-95 Research Grant at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
• 1990-98 Research Fellow, partly funded by DFG, at the Philosophisches Seminar of Göttingen University
• 1990 PhD in History of Science, Tübingen University
• Study of physics in Karlsruhe

Award and Academy membership

• Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (since 2011)
• Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) (since 2005)
• Research Prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (DGGMNT) (2001)

Research fields

• History and Philosophy of experiment
• Historical dynamics of scientific concepts
• History of electricity and electrodynamics
• History of colour research and colour knowledge in 18^th and 19^th centuries
• History of epistemic meta-concepts in science (law of nature, fact, …)
• New perspectives on the connexion of History and Philosophy of Science

Academic activities

• Numerous research projects funded by external funds
• Organisation of numerous conferences, symposia and conference sections
• Numerous academic talks in many countries
• Reviewer for academic journals and publishers
• Reviewer for national and international academic funding organisations
• Member of the executive board (since 2009) and president (2012-1017) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (DGGMNT)
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Foundation Eisenbibliothek, Schaffhausen (CH)
• Member of the „Zentrum für Klassikforschung“ of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
• Member of the Committee for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science/ &HPS
• Area editor of the „Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit“ (Stuttgart/ KWI Essen) (2004-2012)
• Co-editor (together with Richard Kremer) of the book series in history of Science: Boethius (Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart)

Publication (selective)

Vollständige Veröffentlichungsliste

Books

• Exploratory Experiments. Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Univ. Press. 2016
  • Reviews, among others, in Metascience 26 (2017), 297-302, Isis 108 (2017), 709-711, Physics in Perspective 19 (2017), 307-318, see also my “Reply to Hofmann”, Physics in Perspective 19  (2017), 452-457 (free access: http://rdcu.be/BhXn)

• Explorative Experimente. Ampère, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik. (= Reihe Boethius, ed. M. Folkerts, Bd. 50). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2005
• Newtons Manuskript “de gravitatione...”: Ein Stück Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner Mechanik (=Reihe Boethius, ed. M. Folkerts, Bd.26) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1991

Edited volumes

• Colour Histories. Science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries. (with Magdalena Bushart): Berlin: De Gruyter 2015
• Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice (with Uljana Feest). Berlin studies in knowledge research 3. Berlin: de Gruyter 2012
• Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction. (with Jutta Schickore), Archimedes 14. Dordrecht, Springer 2006
• Experimental Essays - Versuche zum Experiment (with Michael Heidelberger) (= Bd. 3 der Reihe Interdisziplinäre Studien/ Interdisciplinary Studies des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1998

Papers

• "Goethe und die Farbenforschung seiner Zeit". In M. Dönike, J. Müller-Tamm, F. Steinle (Hg): Die Farben der Klassik. Göttingen: Wallstein (Schriften des Zentrums für Klassikforschung, 3), 255-289 (2016).
• "Concepts, facts, and sedimentation in experimental science", in David Hyder & Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Hg.), Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's 'Crisis of European Sciences'. Stanford: Stanford Univ Press, 199-214 (2010).
• "From Principles to Regularities: Tracing “Laws of Nature” in Early Modern France and England", in Lorraine Daston & Michael Stolleis (Hg.), Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe. Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate  p. 215-31. (2008),
• "Scientific Change and Empirical Concepts", Centaurus 51 (3): 305-13 (2009).
• "Experiments in History and Philosophy of Science", Perspectives on Science 10 (2002) 408-432 (2003).
• "Exploratory Experimentation: Goethe, Land, and Color Theory", Physics Today 55, 43-49 (zus. mit Neil Ribe) (July 2002).
• "'Das Nächste ans Nächste reihen': Goethe, Newton und das Experiment", Philosophia Naturalis 39 (2002) 141-172
• "Entering New Fields: Exploratory Uses of Experimentation" Philosophy of Science 64, S65-74 (1997).
• "Was ist Masse? Newtons Begriff der Materiemenge" Philosophia Naturalis 29, 94-117 (1992).