Sascha Freyberg
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2023–Dez 2024)
Doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari Università Venezia in the ERC-project Early Modern Cosmology Editorial Manager for Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology (EOA book series).
Sascha Freyberg studied cultural sciences in Hagen and philosophy in Berlin. He has been a research fellow at Ca’ Foscari Università Venezia and at the Critical AI Studies (KIM) group at HfG Karlsruhe. At the MPIWG, he participated in the projects Historical Epistemology of Space, The Split of Scientific Rationality, and Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth (on the Starnberg institute). He is currently collaborating with Ohad Parnes and Katja Krause on “The Enlightenment Project: Dialogues with Ernst Cassirer,” editing the papers of Yehuda Elkana and John Michael Krois.
Sascha is a member of the editorial collective of Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology and of the open-access journal Marxism & Sciences. His research addresses the philosophy and history of science and culture, in particular critical theory of technology, historical epistemology of abstraction, and open science.
Projekte
Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
Historical Epistemology of Abstraction
The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Theories of Knowledge in the Twentieth Century: the “Split of Scientific Rationality”
Selected Publications
Seuthe, Alex and Sascha Freyberg (2024). “Pluralism and the Unity of Science: Physics and Political Epistemology in Cassirer’s Phenomenology of Knowledge.” Continental Philosophy Review, October 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-024-09658-y.
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Freyberg, Sascha and Giorgi Kobakhidze (2024). “Beyond Ideology: Revisiting Dialectical Materialism in the Soviet Tradition.” In The History and Philosophy of Materialism, ed. C. T. Wolfe and J. Symons, 334–350. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org…
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Freyberg, Sascha and Helmut Hauser (2023). “The Morphological Paradigm in Robotics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 100: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.05.002.
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Freyberg, Sascha and Pietro Daniel Omodeo (2023). “Die Copernicanische Revolution als Geschichtszeichen: zur Entstehung der Transformationskosmologie.” In Kosmos: Vom Umgang mit der Welt zwischen Ausdruck und Ordnung, ed. P. König and O. Schlaudt,…
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