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Rethinking Cities: A Farewell to the Physical
a vision statement Aristotle begins his Politics with a definition of the city: ”It is clear that all partnerships aim at some good, and that the partnership that is most authoritative of all and embraces all the others does so particularly, and aims at the most authoritative good of all. This is what is called [...]
Wolfgang Pietsch
Wolfgang Pietsch is research assistant in philosophy of science at Technische Universität München, Germany. He began his academic life studying physics in Berlin and Toulouse. After a brief stint in science writing, he went on to write a PhD in philosophy at Universität Augsburg on the philosophical and physical foundations of the arrow of time. His main areas of research are scientific method as well as the history and philosophy of fundamental ideas in science, especially space, time, and probability. Wolfgang contributes to the Poesis project his interdisciplinary background as well as a thorough understanding of some of the basic concepts providing the physical and epistemological framework of any systematic engagement with cities.