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Thomas Müller is a professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Konstanz since 2013. Since 2022 he is a member of the Centre for Human | Data | Society. He studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Freiburg, graduating in Physics in 1997. In 2001 he received a doctorate in Philosophy). In 2008 he defended his habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He was Vice President and Treasurer of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy until 2022. Since 2020 he is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Thomas Müller has expert knowledge in metaphysics, the theory of action and philosophy of science. He uses formal methods of logic and scientific modelling, such as from physics, where possible and appropriate. His research focuses on the concept of action, bringing together methods and results from metaphysics, philosophy of agency, and the natural sciences

Research-related publications

• Eva, B. , Ried, K., Müller, T. and Briegel, H.J. (2022). How a Minimal Learning Agent can Infer the Existence of Unobserved Variables in a Complex Environment. Minds and Machines, online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-022-09619-5
• Müller, T. (2022). The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre. Philosophical Investigations, online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12371
• López-Incera, A., Nouvian, M., Ried, K., Müller, T. and Briegel, H. J. (2021). Honeybee communication during collective defense is shaped by predation. BMC Biology 19:106. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01028-x
• Müller, T. (2019). The reversibility objection against the Second Law of thermodynamics viewed, and avoided, from a logical point of view. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 66:52–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.09.002
• Müller, T. and Briegel, H. J. (2018). A stochastic process model for free agency under indeterminism. dialectica 72(2), 219–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12222
• Müller, T. and Placek, T. (2018). Defining Determinism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 69(1):215–252. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axv049
• Briegel, H. J. and Müller, T. (2015). A chance for attributable agency. Minds and Machines, 25(3):261–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-015-9381-y
• Belnap, N. and Müller, T. (2014). CIFOL: Case-Intensional First Order Logic. (I) Toward a Theory of Sorts; (II) Branching Histories. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 43(2):393–437; 43(5):835–866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-012-9267-x https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-013-9292-4
• Belnap, N., Müller, T. and Placek, T (2021), Branching Space-Times: Theory and Applications. New York: Oxford University Press. Review by V. Goranko in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2022-09-12. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/branching-space-times-9780190884314
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• Müller, T. (2002). Arthur Priors Zeitlogik Eine problemorientierte Darstellung. Paderborn: mentis Review by N. Strobach in Journal for General Philosophy of Science 35 (2004), p. 403-411. https://brill.com/display/title/49209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10838-004-4547-y