Michael Eldred

Michael Eldred is an Australian philosopher, mathematician and translator currently living in Cologne, Germany. He was born in Katoomba NSW Australia and gained academic qualifications Ph.D. in philosophy and a M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Hons.) in mathematics from the University of Sydney. In the 1970s he was employed as a mathematician by Legal & General in Sydney (actuarial trainee), the University of Sydney (tutor in pure mathematics), the NSW Dept. of Agriculture (mathematical statistician). His doctoral dissertation, carried out in the Sydney-Konstanz Project from 1976 to 1984 and published in Copenhagen in 1984, is a philosophical reading of Marx's critique of political economy, as the basis of a phenomenological theory of the bourgeois form of society which draws critically on Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It deals also with foundational questions in economics, especially the theory of value and money. He moved from Sydney to settle in Konstanz, Germany in the early 1980s, where he continued his philosophical work which ranges over political and social philosophy, phenomenology of whoness, social ontology, digital ontology as well as foundational questions of mathematics and physics, in particular, the question of time. In Germany he established himself as a freelance translator with a specialization in contemporary art. He has published many philosophical books and articles; for details see www.arte-fact.org