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Paul Weingartner (born 8 June 1931 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian philosopher.

After completing his studies in primary education, he worked as an elementary school teacher for three years until 1955. He then studied philosophy, physics, and mathematics at the University of Innsbruck until 1961. This was followed by a postdoctoral position with Karl Popper in London and a Humboldt Fellowship with Wolfgang Stegmüller in Munich.

After completing his habilitation, he was a lecturer in Graz and Salzburg, and from 1970 until his retirement in 1999 he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg.

From 1972 onwards, he also served as head of the Institute for Philosophy of Science at the International Research Centre in Salzburg.

The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1995.

He has been a member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1997.^[1]

Publications (selection)

Wissenschaftstheorie I. Einführung in die Hauptprobleme. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt 1971 (second revised edition 1978).
Wissenschaftstheorie II. 1. Grundlagenprobleme der Logik und Mathematik. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt 1976.
Logisch-Philosophische Untersuchungen zu Werten und Normen. Werte und Normen in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
Logisch-Philosophische Untersuchungen zu philosophie-historischen Themen. Von Platon und Aristoteles zu Wittgenstein und Popper. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
Evil. Different kinds of evil in the light of a modern theodicy. Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2003.
Knowledge and scientific and religious belief. De Gruyter, Berlin 2018.

as editor:

Deskription, Analytizität und Existenz. Anton Pustet, Salzburg/München 1966.
Grundfragen der Wissenschaften und ihre Wurzeln in der Metaphysik. Anton Pustet, Salzburg/München 1967.
Law and Prediction in the Light of Chaos Research. (mit Gerhard Schurz) Springer, Berlin u. a. 1996.
Gesetz und Vorhersage. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg/München 1996.
Koexistenz rivalisierender Paradigmen: eine post-kuhnsche Bestandsaufnahme zur Struktur gegenwärtiger Wissenschaft. (mit Gerhard Schurz) Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen u. a. 1998.
Die Sprache in den Wissenschaften. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg/München 1993.
Evolution als Schöpfung? (mit Otto Muck) Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart/Berlin/Köln 2001.
Wissen und Glauben: Akten des 26. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums, 3. bis 9. August 2003, Kirchberg am Wechsel. (mit Winfried Löffler) Öbv & Hpt, Wien 2004.
Glaube und Vernunft. Interdisziplinäres Streitgespräch zur Enzyklika Fides et Ratio. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
Formale Teleologie und Kausalität in der Physik: zur philosophischen Relevanz des Prinzips der kleinsten Wirkung und seiner Geschichte. (mit Michael Stöltzner) Mentis, Paderborn 2004.
Das Problem des Übels in der Welt. Vom interdisziplinären Standpunkt. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005.

Weblinks

Paul Weingartner at the website of the University of Salzburg
Literature by and about Paul Weingartner in the German National Library catalogue

References

↑ "Paul Weingartner - Universität Salzburg". www.plus.ac.at (in German). 2024-11-21. Retrieved 2026-06-07.

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[1] "Paul Weingartner - Universität Salzburg". www.plus.ac.at (in German). 2024-11-21. Retrieved 2026-06-07.

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