Samo Tomšič studied Philosophy in Ljubljana and received his doctorate at the Institute for Philosophy there with a dissertation entitled “Was ist Antiphilosophie?” (“What is anti-philosophy?”). In the past year he has worked for the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Department for German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His current research is dedicated to the philosophical questions of formalisation, the history of rationalism and the topicality of the structuralist programme. He is a research associate on the base project Models in Cognitive Processes.