Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology at the Universities of Tübingen and Berlin, Germany. A molecular biologist and historian of science, he was a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin until 2014. His current research interests include the history and epistemology of experimentation, the history of the life sciences, and the relation between the sciences and the arts. Among his more recent publications are: On Historicizing Epistemology (2010); An Epistemology of the Concrete (2010); A Cultural History of Heredity (with Staffan Müller-Wille, 2012); Culture and Nature in the Prism of Knowledge (History of the Humanities 1, no. 1, 2016); and Kunststücke (2015).