Jan Sprenger

I am Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Turin. Actually, I am more of a philosopher of science and formal epistemologist than a logician, but since moving to Turin, I am working in logic and formal semantics, too.

The picture shows me in the hills around Genoa, May 2024.

For Students

You can make an appointment for my office hour online. You will not find me in the Mole Antonelliana in the picture, but in the place with the view:

Palazzo Nuovo, office 6/303 (sixth floor)
University of Turin
Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, Italy
Email: jan.sprenger [at] unito.it

Vita

Since November 2017, I am working at the University of Turin where I am affiliated to the Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (LLC). Before I spent almost ten years at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, doing a lot of Bayesian reasoning and its applications to philosophy of science. I obtained my PhD from the University of Bonn in Germany in 2008.

During my career, I visited research centres in the UK, the United States and in one of my favorite countries: Australia (photo taken during a hiking trip in March 2017).

Leisure

I like to play the piano, to listen to music, to do sports, to cook/to eat, to read, and to meet with friends. Since my move to Turin, I am also enthusiastic about hiking in the nearby Alps and I regularly go skiing in winter (if there is enough snow...).

The picture is taken from the Via Lattea skiing area and shows Val Chisone with Val Troncea and Punta Rognosa in the background.

Chess

Wikipedia lists me as a chess player who has an academic career, too. Perhaps this was true in a distant past, but not any more. I might still have a quite reasonable level, but I have stopped playing. In return, I have taken up the composition of chess studies. Moreover, the name of this website is evidently chess-inspired.

The picture shows me at a tournament in Gallipoli, Italy, in 2016. I remember that the tournament did not go too well, though I greatly enjoyed the venue.