SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Sabine Ammon is spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research group Knowledge Dynamics in Engineering Science and PI of the DFG-project From Artefacts to Facts at Berlin University of Technology. She studied architecture and philosophy at Berlin University of Technology with study and research stays at the University of London, the Research Institute of Philosophy Hannover (FIPH), Harvard University, and ETH Zürich. She received her Ph.D. from Berlin University of Technology with a dissertation on concepts of knowledge and understanding in the Philosophy of Nelson Goodman and Catherine Elgin in 2009. From 2011 to 2013 she was co-leader of the interdisciplinary research group Image and Design, eikones NCCR Bildkritik at the University of Basel, from 2013 to 2014 researcher and lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology, from 2014 to 2017 researcher at Darmstadt University of Technology. Directing a project on the Epistemology of Designing, she was from 2014 to 2016 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Berlin University of Technology. Her current research focuses on epistemic, ethical, and aesthetic questions in relation to designing and modeling in architecture and engineering.
Selected Publications:
1. S. Ammon. “Design methods and validation.” In: Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Ed. by N. Doorn and D. Michelfelder. In preparation. London: Routledge, 2019.
2. S. Ammon. “Drawing inferences: Thinking with 6B (and sketching paper).” In: Philosophy & Technology (Aug. 2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0323-5.
3. S. Ammon. “Why designing is not experimenting: Design methods, epistemic praxis and strategies of knowledge acquisition in architecture.” In: Philosophy & Technology 30.4 (2017), pp. 495–520.
4. S. Ammon and R. Capdevila-Werning, eds. The Active Image: Architecture and Engi- neering in the Age of Modeling. New York: Springer, 2017.
5. S. Ammon and I. Hinterwaldner, eds. Bildlichkeit im Zeitalter der Modellierung: Operative Artefakte in Entwurfsprozessen der Architektur und des Ingenieurwesens. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017.
6. S. R. Grimm, C. Baumberger, and S. Ammon, eds. Explaining understanding: New perspectives from epistemology and philosophy of science. London: Routledge, 2016.
7. S. Ammon and E. M. Froschauer, eds. Wissenschaft Entwerfen: Vom forschenden Entwerfen zur Entwurfsforschung der Architektur. Mu ̈nchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013.
8. S. Ammon. “Knowledge, the context distinction and its impact on the relation between philosophy and sociology of science.” In: Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII: Bringing together Philosophy
and Sociology of Science. Ed. by K. Francois, B. Löwe, T. Müller, and B.Van Kerkhove. Vol.32. Studies in Logic. London: College Publications, 2011, pp. 1–16.
9. S. Ammon. Wissen verstehen: Perspektiven einer prozessualen Theorie der Erkenntnis. Weilerswist-Metternich: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2009.
10. S. Ammon, C. Heineke, and K. Selbmann, eds. Wissen in Bewegung: Vielfalt und Hegemonie in der Wissensgesellschaft. Weilerswist-Metternich: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2007.