Cheryce von Xylander is an American philosopher who works across disciplines and media in text, film, and event design. She first studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford University, a globally unique Bachelor of Science program that encompasses logic, software engineering, cognitive linguistics, and the philosophy of mind. She then studied the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Chicago, where she earned her Master of Philosophy and her Ph.D.

She subsequently served as a research associate at the Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology) in Munich and worked at the Max Planck Institutes for Cognitive and Neural Sciences in Munich and for the History of Science and Educational Research in Berlin. In the academic field, she taught philosophy at TU Darmstadt, Humboldt University in Berlin, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Stanford in Berlin, and Leuphana University in Lüneburg. She recently premiered the media opera Pink Mouse, conceived and directed the film Walled Garden, and completed an artistic-scientific study on Stanford in Haus Cramer: A Berlin Microhistory as a co-production.

Dr. Cheryce von Xylander
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Research Fields

• History of Knowledge and Philosophy
• Digitality and digital Transformation
• Pictoriality