Towards a New Scientific Realism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031988851)

Jan Voosholz is a tenured research associate at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of science. He finished his PhD in 2022, this book presents the key findings of this project, in which he strove to understand the consequences of Quentin Meillassoux's and Markus Gabriel's new realism for the philosophy of science in general and the debate concerning realism and antirealism in particular. He is the editor of Top-Down Causation and Emergence (with Markus Gabriel; Synthese Library 439, Springer, 2021) and Markus Gabriel's New Realism (Synthese Library 492, Springer, 2024). For research stays, he has spent time at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, and previously received a M.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in history from the Free University Berlin.