Professur für Philosophie
Rämistrasse 36
RAC E16
CH-8092 Zürich
Tel: 0041-44-632-7180
Fax: 0041-44-632-1561
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Karim Bschir studied biochemistry and philosophy at the University of Zurich. In 2003 he received his MSci in biochemistry. In the following year, he continued his studies in philosophy. During that time, Karim was also working as a high school teacher in philosophy and as a guide and referee at the Swiss National Museum in an exhibition on recent developments in the Life Sciences. In November 2004, he started his PhD studies in philosophy at the University of Zurich (funded by the Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich). Since January 2007, he is a research assistant at the Chair for Philosophy at ETH Zurich. He is an affiliated researcher at the Collegium Helveticum and a research fellow at the the Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (CPNS) at California State University Sacramento. From October 2009 to April 2010, Karim is visiting the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the London School of Economics (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
projects
Realism and Scientific Practice
publications
scientific papers:
Transient or Fundamental? The Code Metaphor in Molecular Biology. In: A. Gleiniger, G. Vrachliotis (Eds.). Code – Between Operation and Narration. Birkhäuser, Lepizig (forthcoming).
Pahlich S, Bschir K, Chiavi C, et al. Different Methylation Characteristics of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 and 3 Toward the Ewing Sarcoma Protein and a Peptide. Proteins 61 (1): 164-175, 2005.
encyclopedia entries:
“Teleology”. In: Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Meiner, Hamburg (together with Michael Hampe, forthcoming 2010, German).
reviews:
Chalmers, Alan. The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone – How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. In: Annals of Science (forthcoming).
Boi, Luciano. Symétries, brisures de symétries et complexité. In: Bibliographie de la philosophie, 2007 (German).
Siggen, Michel. L'expérience chez Aristote. In: Bibliographie de la philosophie, 2006 (German).
talks and poster presentations:
“Acategoriality, Archetypes, Emotions and the Limits of Language”, a reply to Prof Reinhard Nesper in the lecture series “The Empiricism of Emotions“ at the Collegium Helveticum, February 2009 (in German).
“Scientific Realism and Immediacy”, talk at the World Congress of Philosophy 2008, National University Seoul, July 2008.
“The Role of Truth in Science”, talk at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, May 2008 (in German).
“Reality without Language? – Science’s non-linguistic access to reality”, talk at the International Graduate Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, December 2007 (in German).
“Realism and Scientific Practice”, talk at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, June 2007 (in German).
“Experience and Reality – A Contribution to the Debate on Realism in the Philosophy of Science”, poster presentation at the symposium of the Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich, June 2007 (in German).
“On the Metaphor of the Genetic Code”, talk at the Centre for History of Science, ETH Zurich, July 2006 (in German).
“The Mathematization of Physics and the Concept of Experience in Galilei”, talk at the colloquium for theoretical philosophy, University Zurich, December 2005 (in German).
“On Putnam’s Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses”, talk at the colloquium for Theoretical Philosophy, University Zurich, June 2004 (in German).
teaching
Winter 08 together with Prof Michael Hampe: Philosophy of Biology – Evolution.
Winter 07 together with Dr Ursula Renz: Realism in Philosophy and Science.
Spring 07 together with Prof Michael Hampe: Philosophy of Biology – The Concept of Information in Biology.
attended conferences/workshops/summer schools
“2nd conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association”, October 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“International Conference on Science and Spirituality”, June 2009, Cortona, Italy.
“Scientific Realism Revisited”, workshop at LSE, London, April 2009.
“World Knowledge Dialogue 2008”, participant in the students program, September 2008, Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
“World Congress of Philosophy”, July 2008, Seoul, Korea.
“Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop”, April 2008, Dusseldorf, Germany.
“Was ist Wissenschaft? Darstellung und Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Wissenschaftsphilosophie”, March 2008, Bonn, Germany.
“Philosophische Aspekte des Lebens”, summer school of the Schweizerische Studienstiftung, Sepember 2001, Maienfeld, Switzerland.
links
Centre for Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), LSE, London
Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (CPNS), California State University, Sacramento