Matthias Schirn
German philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Matthias Schirn is a German philosopher and logician. Education and academic career Schirn completed his doctoral degree at the University of Freiburg in 1974 with a thesis on identity and synonymy in logic and semantics and subsequently taught at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Michigan State University. Schirn’s research during this time focused on theories of meaning for natural languages and intensional semantics, and he continued working in this area at the University of California at Berkeley, St. John’s College , Harvard University and at Wolfson College . In 1985, Schirn was awarded his habilitation at the University of Regensburg with a thesis on Frege’s philosophy of mathematics. Since 1987 he has held a distinguished Fiebiger-Professorship at the University of Munich and since 2012 he has been a member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota , the State University of Campinas , the Catholic University of São Paulo , the National University of Buenos Aires , the National Autonomous University of Mexico , the National University San Marcos in Lima and numerous other universities in Europe and Latin America. Schirn has published in Mind, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Review, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Axiomathes, The Journal of Symbolic Logic,The Review of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Applied Logics, Reports on Mathematical Logic, History and Philosophy of Logic, Logique et Analyse, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Metascience, Dialectica, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Kantstudien, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Theoria, Crítica, Manuscrito and other international journals. He has given invited lectures at the most prestigious universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America and South Africa as well as at some of the most distinguished universities in the United States of America and Australia. In 2014, he delivered a series of lectures on Frege’s philosophy of mathematics at the University of Oxford and carried out related research at Wolfson College. In the same year, he was invited to work as a research professor at Kyoto University and received a research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Thanks to his academic activities all over the world since the beginning of his career, Schirn considers himself a cosmopolitan. Besides German, he speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese and French fluently and is currently engaged in regaining his fluency in Italian. Schirn also speaks a little modern Greek, Romanian and Japanese. He is familiar with Latin and ancient Greek.
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