Dr. Enno Fischer

Publications

"Actual Causation and the Challenge of Purpose", in: Erkenntnis 88, 6 (2023).
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"Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification
of Scientific Principles", in: Philosophy of Science 90,3 (2023).
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Research

Enno Fischer has research interests in philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. Currently, he is interested in the epistemology and methodology of particle physics. He develops a philosophical account of guiding principles in scientific inquiry. Traditionally, scientific principles are understood as claims that are particularly robust. But sometimes principles play an important role in scientific inquiry even though they have hypothetical or even speculative character. Looking at case studies such as the so-called “naturalness principle” in high-energy physics, Enno Fischer researches the roles that such principles play in developing new theories and motivating experiments. Enno Fischer has also research interests in theories of causation and causal reasoning. Currently, he is interested in value-laden causal reasoning in the context of cause-of-death inquiry. He has also published on interventionist causal models as a framework for understanding causal concepts.

Vita

Academic Positions

• 04/2022 – 03/2024: Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Philosophy and History of Science.
• 10/2020 – 03/2022: Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG Research Unit “Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider”
• 10/2016 – 10/2020: Leibniz University Hanover. Doctoral candidate at the DFG GRK 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research” at the Institute of Philosophy.

Education

• 10/2016 – 08/2020: PhD Philosophy at the DFG GRK 2073
  “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research”,
  Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hanover.
• 10/2019 – 12/2019: Visiting student at the Department of
  History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
• 10/2015 – 06/2016: History, Philosophy and Sociology of
  Science, Technology and Medicine (Master of Philosophy),
  Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
  University of Cambridge.
• 10/2013 – 09/2015: Physics (Master of Science), Georg
  August University Göttingen.
• 10/2011 – 03/2015: Philosophy and Physics (Bachelor of Arts),
  Georg August University Göttingen.
• 10/2010 – 09/2013: Physics (Bachelor of Science),
  Georg August University Göttingen.
• 10/2009 – 07/2010: Studium Generale, Leibniz Kolleg Tübingen.  

Further Information:

Personal Website: https://ennofischer.weebly.com/
PhilPeople: https://philpeople.org/profiles/enno-fischer