Michael Esfeld

Michael Esfeld (CH/D) a native of Germany studied philosophy and history at the University of Freiburg/Br. from 1986 to 1991 and completed his PhD at the University Münster on mechanism and subjectivity in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Since 2002 Prof. Esfeld teaches philosophy of science at the University of Lausanne (CH). From 1994 to 1996 he worked at ETH Zurich on the philosophy of quantum physics and subsequently conducted research as a visiting scientist at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Canberra (AUS) among other places. In 2000 he was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and in 2001 he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne (D). Prof. Esfeld has been a member of the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina since 2009, and in 2013 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. His main areas of work are natural philosophy including the metaphysics of the natural
sciences and the philosophy of mind including the philosophy of language. Esfeld joined the Liberale Institut in Zurich (CH) and became a member of the Institute’s academic advisory board in 2021.