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Cosmic Bayes. Datasets and priors in the hunt for dark energy
Bayesian methods are ubiquitous in contemporary observational cosmology. They enter into three main tasks: (I) cross-checking datasets for...
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Investing in Fundamental Research: For Whom? A Philosopher’s Perspective
In this short piece arising from panel discussion at the 2019 FCC Week Conference in Brussels, I briefly review some of the challenges facing...
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Realism, perspectivism, and disagreement in science
This paper attends to two main tasks. First, I introduce the notion of perspectival disagreement in science. Second, I relate perspectival...
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Knowledge from a Human Point of View
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism....
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Points of view: Kant on perspectival knowledge
The aim of this paper is to cast new light on an important and often overlooked notion of perspectival knowledge arising from Kant. In addition to a...
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Simplified models: a different perspective on models as mediators
We introduce a novel point of view on the “models as mediators” framework in order to emphasize certain important epistemological questions about...
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EPSA15 Selected Papers The 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf
This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers...
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Walking the Line: Kuhn Between Realism and Relativism
In this chapter, I evaluate the thorny issue as to whether Thomas Kuhn’s view supports a form of realism or relativism. I consider two prominent...
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Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-Bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability
In Chap. 5 of Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change Joseph LaPorte defends the view that the meaning-change of natural-kind terms does not open the...
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Structural Realism: A Neo-Kantian Perspective
Structural realism was born in the attempt to reach a compromise between a realist argument and an antirealist one, namely the ‘no miracle’ argument...
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From data to phenomena: a Kantian stance
This paper investigates some metaphysical and epistemological assumptions behind Bogen and Woodward’s data-to-phenomena inferences. I raise a series...
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What Demonstrative Induction Can Do Against the Threat of Underdetermination: Bohr, Heisenberg, and Pauli on Spectroscopic Anomalies (1921–24)
In this paper I argue that demonstrative induction can deal with the problem ofthe underdetermination of theory by evidence. I present the historical...