Wolfgang Lefèvre
Emeritus Scholar (2006–2024)
Wolfgang Lefèvre was Professor of Philosophy and Science at the Freie Universität Berlin until 2006, and is currently working at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His research interests include History of Science in Connection with History of Philosophy on the Basis of Social History; Sciences in Greek Antiquity; Early Modern Physics and Chemistry; and History of Biology (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries).
Selected Publications
Lefèvre, Wolfgang (2025). Theory of Nature and Mode of Production: The Genesis of Modern Science in Materialist Perspective, trans. Cat Moir Wolfe. Political Epistemology. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02295-0.
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Lefèvre, Wolfgang (2023). “Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and Its Philosophical Contexts.”. In Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth…
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Lefèvre, Wolfgang, ed. (2023). Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century. 2nd extended edition. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 341. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031…
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Lefèvre, Wolfgang (2022). Bausteine zu einer Oral History der Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Wissenschaft als Arbeitsprozess. Interview mit Wolfgang Lefèvre. Interview by Mathias Grote and Anke te Heesen. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (1-2): 265…
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