PD Dr. habil. Marco Tamborini Visiting professor
Marco Tamborini is a historian and philosopher of science and technology with broader interests in philosophy and its history. He is based at the TU Darmstadt (where he teaches as Privatdozent and is P.I. of the project supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Hybrid Systems, Bionics, and the Circulation of Morphological Knowledge in the Second Half of the 20th Century and the Early 21st Century”). Futhermore, he is also member of the Junge Akademie | Mainz - the Young Academy of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, fellow of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy as well as associate member at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«.
Marco Tamborini did his Habilitation (venia legendi for "Philosophy"- awarded in 2022) at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he is teaching philosophy as well as history and philosophy of science and technology. He did his Ph.D. in philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg (awarded in 2015) and was pre-doc at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He also holds the Italian National Habilitation in Science (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the full professorship in the philosophy of science and the associate professorship in theoretical philosophy.
Contact
PD Dr. habil. Marco Tamborini
Lehrgebäude 10, Room 130b
Erich-Weinert-Str. 1
03046 Cottbus
Personal Website: Marco Tamborini
Office Hours
Please make an appointment.
For submitting documents please also use the post box no. 44 at Lehrgebäude 10 (ground floor, near coffee machine).
Research Fields
Marco Tamborini's research lies at the intersection of (bio)science, technology and ethics, with a particular focus on life sciences and bio-inspired and engineering disciplines (such as AI, robotics, biorobotics, biofabrication, synthetic biology, bionics, bio-inspired architecture). He also works on classical philosophical topics (philosophy of the 18th to 21st century, especially: Kant, Herbart, Lotze, Husserl, Neo-Kantianism, Phenomenology and Neo-Empiricism), the philosophy of culture and philosophical anthropology.