Benedikt Balschun

Associate Phd Researcher

Project

Inter-disciplinarity and meta-ontology: an epistemic structural approach

The project is aimed at analyzing and ultimately modeling the behavioral characteristics and fundamental properties of ontologies from an metaontologic viewpoint, taking into consideration the epistemic structures guiding the constitution of objects ascribed to these regional ontologies and the possibility of their complexification.

Bio

My name is Benedikt Balschun and currently I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Freiburg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fausto Fraisopi. Prior to this I finished my bachelors in philosophy, history and political sciences (2016-19) at the University of Göttingen, subsequently starting my masters in philosophy (2019-21) in Freiburg, graduating with a thesis regarding the intimate connection between epistemological and ontological structures operating inside the „Noema“, a terminus prominently coined by German philosopher Edmund Husserl. Followed by an almost 3 year lasting study of mathematics, once again at the Unversity of Freiburg, I decided to pursue a Ph.D. degree in philosophy/theory of science. My recent work is concerned in developing a framework to analyze the behaviour and constitution of „theories“ and „ontologies“ as genetic and complex systems of sense from a meta-ontological standpoint of view, especially aiming at their modeling and the therein involved mathematical tool-sets (e.g. category theory, network modeling).