Current Positions

Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University 

Senior Researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University

Previous Positions

Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden (2013)

Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, New York University, USA (2011-12)

Postdoctoral Fellow of Ghent University (2010-2018)

Visiting Fellow at CEPERC and GREQAM, Université de Provence, France (2010)

Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Konstanz Universität, Germany (2009-10)

Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London (2007)

Visiting Fellow at Rationalités Contemporaines (Université Paris IV Sorbonne), Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2006-07)

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO), Belgium (2004-2010)

BOF Postdoctoral Fellow of Ghent University (2003-04)

Research Assistant of the Research Foundation (FWO), Belgium (1999-2003)

Researcher on the project Functional and Teleological Explanations funded by the Research Foundation (FWO) (1999)

Education

Ph.D. (Philosophy): Ghent University (2003)

M.A. (History): Ghent University and Universidad de Salamanca (1998)

Academic teacher training (Philosophy): Ghent University (1997)

M.A. (Philosophy): Ghent University (1996)

Supervising Projects

Co-supervisor of the research project: ‘Science, expertise and democracy.‘ (FWO, 2010-2015)

Co-supervisor of the research project: 'A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation' (FWO, 2009-2013)

Co-supervisor of the research project: ‘Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences.’ (FWO, 2007-2010)

Co-supervisor of Laszlo Kosolosky's PhD-project: 'Science, expertise and democracy.' (2010-2015)

Co-supervisor of Jan De Winter's PhD-project: 'The exclusion of social groups and their perspectives from the scientific debate: problems and remedies.' (2009-2014) - PhD obtained January 2015.

Co-supervisor of Raoul Gervais’ PhD-project: ‘Development of a pragmatic theory of scientific explanation in biology and psychology.’ (2009-2013) - PhD obtained May 2013.

Co-supervisor of Rogier De Langhe’s PhD-project: ‘A model-based approach to problems in the philosophy of social science.’ (2006-2010) - PhD obtained April 2010.

Refereeing Work

For journals: Philosophy of Science, European Journal of Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Perspectives on Science, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, American Political Science Review, Political Studies (UK), Social Epistemology, Social Studies of Science, Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and the Foundations of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A and SHPS Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Philosophical Psychology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Theory and Science, Philosophical Explorations, Topoi, Graduate Journal of Social Science, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, Philosophica, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Ethiek & Maatschappij.

For publishers: Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Edward Elgar and Bloomsbury Publishing.

For science foundations: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Scientific Committees

ENPOSS 2020 Conference (European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences), Toulouse, Program Committee member.

2019 Philosophy and Methodology of Political Science conference, WSU, Pullman (WA), Organizing and Program Committee member.

2019 Philosophical Perspectives on Medical Knowledge, Genoa, Scientific Committee member.

ENPOSS 2017 Conference, Cracow, Program Committee member.

SPS 2012 (Société de Philosophie des Sciences) Program Committee member.

EPSA 2011 (European Philosophy of Science Association) Program Committee member.

SSD 2006 Congress Chair of The Social Sciences and Democracy: a philosophy of science perspective.

CENSS 2002 Member of the Organizing Committee of Causation and Explanation in the Natural and Social Sciences. 

Member of the advisory committee of the Duhem Lectures 2012 (on the theme Risk and Expertise), Paris, organized by SPS (Société de Philosophie des Sciences).

Member of the evaluation committee and public examination jury of Leen De Vreese’s Ph.D. thesis on Causal Pluralism (23 & 30 October 2006)

Member of the doctoral guidance committees of Rogier De Langhe (2006-10), Jan De Winter (2009-2015), Raoul Gervais (2009-2013) and Laszlo Kosolosky (2010-2015).

Member of the Editorial Board of Ethiek & Maatschappij.