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Bernd Buldt
Professor of Math Logic & Foundations of Exact Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Bernd Buldt
Professor of Math Logic & Foundations of Exact Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Bernd Buldt received his education in Germany where he initially pursued a MA in protestant theology and a BA in philosophy, with minors in Scandinavian languages and educational sciences. He then changed gears and earned his Ph.D. from the Ruhr-University Bochum with a dissertation in mathematical logic (on incompleteness theorems, for which he was awarded the (in Germany very prestigious) Wolfgang-Stegmüller Prize) and his Habilitation (a post-doctoral degree required by the German system to obtain a tenured position) from the University of Konstanz with work on probability theory in the 19th century. In Germany he held positions at the universities of Bochum, Bielefeld, and Konstanz; he also held visiting positions at the University of Vienna (Austria) and at the University of Notre Dame and (three times) at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. He is a Humboldt-Fellow and joined IPFW in 2006 as professor and chair of philosophy before he moved to his current position in 2017. His research is mostly in logic, the history and philosophy of mathematics, and the history of 19th century science.