| Jan Michael Sprenger | |
|---|---|
 Sprenger in 2008 | |
| Country | Germany |
| Born | 26 November 1982 (age 41) Cologne, West Germany |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2468 (December 2023) |
| Peak rating | 2537 (January 2008) |
Jan Michael Sprenger (born 26 November 1982) is a German chess grandmaster and philosopher.
Born in 1982, Sprenger earned his international master title in 2001 and his grandmaster title in 2018. [1] [2] He is the No. 55 ranked German player as of March 2023. [3] Sprenger plays in the German Chess Bundesliga for the team of Schachfreunde Berlin and writes regularly on chess-related topics. [4]
Sprenger holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bonn (2008), specializing in philosophy of science, and worked afterwards at Tilburg University, where he was appointed professor in 2014. In 2017, he became professor of philosophy at the University of Turin.
2019. Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Stephan Hartmann). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [5]
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