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Christoph Baumberger (* 1971; Dr.) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Decisions of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and a member of the Centre for Ethics of the University of Zurich. After training as a draughtsman specialising in structural engineering, he studied philosophy, linguistics and new German literature at the University of Zurich and the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. In 2010 he attained his doctorate with his work Gebaute Zeichen. Eine Symboltheorie der Architektur. From 2001 to 2006 he was research assistant and from 2006 to 2008 research officer at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Zurich. From 2003 to 2005 he taught at the Zurich University of Design; from 2005 to 2009 he taught at the University of Zurich as part of the Master of Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics.

Publications (selection)
  • Philosophie der Architektur. Grundlagentexte. Paderborn: Mentis. Published June 2012.
  • Gebaute Zeichen. Eine Symboltheorie der Architektur. Frankfurt a. M./Lancaster: Ontos 2010.
  • “Identität, Charakter und Stil von Bauwerken” (with Georg Brun). In Christoph Baumberger (ed.): Philosophie der Architektur. Grundlagentexte. Paderborn: Mentis. Published 2012.
  • “Art and Understanding. In Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism”. In: Christoph Wagner et al. (eds.): Bilder sehen. Perspektiven der Bildwissenschaft. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner. Published 2012.
  • “Identities of Artefacts” (with Georg Brun). Theoria 78 (2012), 47–74.
  • “Understanding and its Relation to Knowledge”. In: Christoph Jäger; Winfried Löffler (eds.): Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 2011, 16–18.
  • “Tragwerkskonzeption und Raumgestaltung – Zum Verhältnis zwischen Architekt und Bauingenieur“. In: Aita Flury (ed.): Kooperation. Zur Zusammenarbeit von Ingenieur und Architekt. Basel: Birkhäuser 2011, 57–71. English in: Aita Flury (Hrsg.): Cooperation. The Engineer and the Architect. Basel: Birkhäuser 2011, 57–70.
  • “Kunst aktiviert Kunst. Ein Framework für eine funktionale Analyse der Museumsarchitektur”. In: Jakob Steinbrenner; Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.): Kontextarchitektur. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2010 (Kunst und Philosophie, Vol. 2), 49–76.
  • “Ambiguity in Architecture”. In: Gerhard Ernst; Oliver Scholz; Jakob Steinbrenner (eds.): Nelson Goodman. From Logic to Art. Frankfurt a. M./Lancaster: Ontos 2009, 293–319.
  • “Five Ways of (Not) Defining Exemplification” (with Georg Brun and Inga Vermeulen), in: Gerhard Ernst; Oliver Scholz; Jakob Steinbrenner (eds.): Nelson Goodman. From Logic to Art. Frankfurt a. M./Lancaster: Ontos 2009, 219–250.
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