Interests
Logic and dialectics (diagrams, induction, fallacies, etc.)
History of science (cognition, evolution, experiments, etc.)
Philosophy of mathematics (intuition, visualization, proofs, etc.)
Knowledge and reasoning (causality, existence, etc.)
Language and communication (multimodality, gestures, metaphors, etc.)
Technology (tools, neural networks, AI, etc.)
Ethics (argumentation, eristic, role models, etc.)Publications
10 selected publications from the last 5 years:
Lemanski, Jens & Jansen, Ludger (forthcoming). A CL System for Propositions and Classes. Erkenntnis. PDF
Lemanski, Jens (2026). Frege's Father was a German Idealist. History and Philosophy of Logic:1-14. PDF
Lemanski, Jens (2025). Erhard Weigels Erfindung des Schlussmaßes. In Klaus-Dieter Herbst (ed.), Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) und seine Lehrer. Leipzig: Akademischen Verlagsanstalt. pp. 29-55. Link
Lemanski, Jens (2024). Individuals, Existence, and Existential Commitment in Visual Reasoning. Open Philosophy 7 (1):1-25. PDF
Henlein, Alexander; Bhattacharjee, Reetu; Lemanski, Jens et al. (2024). An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. In Duffy Vincent G., Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management (HCII 2024). pp. 182–234. Link
Lemanski, Jens (2023). Logic Diagrams as Argument Maps in Eristic Dialectics. Argumentation 37 (1):69-89. PDF
Lemanski, Jens (2022). Schopenhauers Logikdiagramme in den Mathematiklehrbüchern Adolph Diesterwegs. Siegener Beiträge Zur Geschichte Und Philosophie der Mathematik 16:97-127. PDF
Moktefi, Amirouche & Lemanski, Jens (2022). On the Origin of Venn Diagrams. Axiomathes 32 (3):887-900. PDF
Lemanski, Jens (2022). Can Non-Causal Explanations Answer the Leibniz Question? Metaphysica 23 (2):427-443. PDF
Lemanski, Jens (2021). Discourse Ethics and Eristic. Polish Journal of Aesthetics 62:151-162. PDF
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2025-
Managing Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster;
Extraordinary Professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen, KSW;2019
Habilitation; Venia Legendi for Philosophy;
Supervisor at the Hans Böckler Foundation
2009-2025
Research and teaching activities at various universities in Mainz, Bochum, Münster, Hagen, and Tübingen2011
Doctorate in Philosophy (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and Philology (Università del Salento)