Lüthy, Christoph

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2. Gender Name Male
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   1. Christoph Lüthy is Professor of the history of philosophy of science in Radboud University and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. After obtaining a first-class BA hon. in Philosophy and Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford (1987), he studied physics for a couple of semesters at Basel University and the of the history of science at Harvard University (MA 1989, PhD 1995). He is principally interested in the origin of the modern sciences after the Renaissance, in the evolution of matter theories, in visual strategies in the sciences, and in the mind-body problem as it developed in reaction to Darwin's evolutionary model.He has published notably on a series of early-modern atomists,  on the evolution of techniques of visualization  and of key notions.Lüthy is also editor-in-chief of the journal "Early Science and Medicine" and co-editor of the book series "Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science" (both published by Brill Academic Publishers). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.