

Editorial


Editorial

Claus Beisbart • Ulrich Krohs • Helmut Pulte

Published online: 1 April 2015
� Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

With this Editorial, we’d like to inform our readers about some news concerning the

editorship of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science:

Since its foundation by Alwin Diemer (� 1986), Lutz Geldsetzer and Gert König in
1970, JGPS was edited by the three (respectively two) founders until 2004. In 2005 and

2008, respectively, Helmut Pulte and Gregor Schiemann joined JGPS as new editors, while

Lutz Geldsetzer and Gert König retired by the end of 2008. In 2013, Ulrich Krohs joined

the editorial team and thereby restored the ‘trinity’ of the starting years of JGPS.

Gregor Schiemann has decided to resign from his editorship with the end of 2014 and

has assigned Claus Beisbart as his successor in consultation with the other editors and the

publisher. Since 2012, Prof. Dr. Dr. Beisbart is working as a philosopher of science at the

University of Bern (Switzerland). His areas of expertise include philosophy of physics,

particularly of cosmology, epistemology of model building and simulation, theories of

space and time, probability, and also ethics and decision theory.

Ulrich Krohs and Helmut Pulte would like to welcome Claus Beisbart as a new member

of the editorial team and look forward to a cooperation conducted in a constructive and

cooperative spirit. All three editors are jointly in full charge for all articles published in

JGPS.

The three editors, old and new, would also like to cordially thank Gregor Schiemann for

his competent, energetic and loyal work for this journal since 2008. His commitment to

general philosophy of science will influence JGPS well beyond the 6 years he was one of

C. Beisbart
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

U. Krohs
Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Münster, 48143 Münster, Germany

H. Pulte (&)
Institut für Philosophie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
e-mail: jgps@rub.de

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DOI 10.1007/s10838-015-9291-y


the editors-in-chief. As a new member of the editorial advisory board he will still be

valuable for this journal.

JGPS will continue to be a forum for philosophy of science which does not give

preference to certain schools or fashions, but is rather open to all of its general topics and

its various specialized fields and strands. And it will continue to evolve in accord with the

latest developments in philosophy of science.

2 C. Beisbart et al.

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