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Roman Frigg (born 1972) is a Swiss philosopher, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and director of its Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. In 2016 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.
Born in Basel, Switzerland, Frigg obtained his MSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel. In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the University of London under Nancy Cartwright with the thesis, entitled Re-presenting Scientific Representation.
After graduation Frigg started his academic career at the London School of Economics. After some years he was appointed Professor of Philosophy in its Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. He is also visiting professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich at its Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy.
Selected publications
- Roman Frigg, Re-presenting Scientific Representation. London School of Economics, University of London, September 2003.
- Roman Frigg, Matthew Hunter (eds.). Beyond mimesis and convention : representation in art and science. Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Articles, a selection:
- Frigg, Roman. "On the property structure of realist collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics and the so-called" counting anomaly"." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17.1 (2003): 43-57.
- Frigg, Roman, and Julian Reiss. "The philosophy of simulation: hot new issues or same old stew?." Synthese 169.3 (2009): 593-613.
- Frigg, Roman. "Models and fiction." Synthese 172.2 (2010): 251-268.
- Roman Frigg and Ioannis Votsis (2011), "Everything you always wanted to know about structural realism but were afraid to ask," European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1(2):227-276, esp. p. 250.