Charlotte Werndl

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Charlotte Werndl
Education University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions University of Salzburg
Thesis Philosophical aspects of chaos: definitions in mathematics, unpredictability, and the observational equivalence of deterministic and indeterministic descriptions  (2010)
Doctoral advisor Jeremy Butterfield
Main interests
philosophy of science
Website http://charlottewerndl.net/index.html

Charlotte Werndl is an Austrian philosopher. She holds a chair in logic and philosophy of science at the University of Salzburg and a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics. Werndl is known for her works on philosophy of science and is a winner of Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics (2011). [1] [2]

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Werndl received her doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. Before teaching at the University of Salzburg, she was an associate professor at the London School of Economics. Previously, she was a junior research fellow at the Queen's College, University of Oxford.

She is an editor of the Review of Symbolic Logic and an associate editor of Philosophy of Science . She is also a member of the council of the DLMPST (International Union of History and Philosophy of Science). [3]

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References

  1. "Charlotte Werndl". Google Scholar Citations.
  2. "An Interview with Charlotte Werndl". The Rotman Institute of Philosophy. 5 May 2014.
  3. "Charlotte Werndl". London School of Economics and Political Science.