Paul Hoyningen-Huene is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) and lecturer for philosophy of economics at the Dept. of Economics at the Universität Zürich (Switzerland).
He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 1975 before switching to philosophy of science. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, with Professor T.S. Kuhn, from 1984 to 1985, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, from 1987 to 1988.
His main research interests are the dynamics of scientific theory change, especially Kuhn, Feyerabend, and incommensurability; the nature of science; reduction and emergence; the ethics of science; metaethics; the philosophy of logics, of physics, of biology, of history, of psychology, and of economics; and the philosophy of soccer.
Hoyningen-Huene is best known for his books Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Formal Logic: A Philosophical Approach (Pittsburgh University Press, 2004), and Systematicity: The Nature of Science (Oxford University Press, 2013).