Bios Talk: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - My Itinerary Toward a Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. His academic stations include Berlin, Stanford, Lübeck, and Salzburg. From 1997-2014, he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. Areas of his interest include the history of the life sciences, in particular molecular biology, the history and epistemology of experimentation, and forms of research in the sciences and the arts. His newest books: Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023); In Touch. Encounters between Art and Research (Zurich and Berlin: Diaphanes, 2025).