CV

Born 3 December 1979

French

Two children (born 2017 & 2020)

mvorms@gmail.com

Alumna of the École normale supérieure (Paris)

Agrégée in Philosophy

PhD in Philosophy

Senior lecturer (maître de conférences) at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, department of Philosophy, permanent researcher at the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (UMR 8590)

Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France

Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Division of Psychology and Languages Sciences

Associate Research Fellow at Centre de recherche sur la justice et le règlement des conflits (legal studies, University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French national public health agency (Santé publique France)

AOS: philosophy of science, epistemology, psychology of reasoning, legal epistemology

AOC: philosophy of cognitive science, legal evidence, philosophy of biology, philosophy of physics

Since 2019 Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France 

Since 2012 Maître de conférences (senior lecturer) at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Sept.-Dec. 2021 Parental leave

Feb.-May 2020 Maternity leave

July 2017-
Apr. 2018 Maternity and parental leave

2015-2017 Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellow at Birkbeck College, London, Department of Psychological
Sciences (while in leave from Paris 1)

2011-2012 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) postdoctoral fellow at University College
London, Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences Department

2009-2011 ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche) postdoctoral fellow at IHPST (CNRS, Paris),
CompuPhys project, “The Computational Turn in Physics”

2008-2009           ATER (teaching and research fellow) in Philosophy at University Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne

2005-2008           Allocataire monitrice normalienne (AMN — graduate student instructor) at Paris 1

2003-2004           French tutor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

1999-2005           Fellow of the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm

Other teaching positions

2010                   Teaching fellow at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), occasional lectures

2009-2010          Teaching fellow at Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)

2009                   Teaching fellow at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), occasional lectures

2002-2003          Teaching assistant in Philosophy at University of Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle

2020-2022 Master 2 in law (procedural trial law), University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, thesis on French

evidence law

2005-2009 PhD Thesis “Théories, modes d’emploi : une perspective cognitive sur l’activité théorique dans les
sciences empiriques” (“Theories, A User’s Guide: A cognitive approach to theorising in the empirical
sciences”), (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), under the supervision of J. Gayon and A. Barberousse.
Members of the committee : P. Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS), P. Humphreys (University of
Charlottesville, Virginia), O. Darrigol (REHSEIS, CNRS). With highest distinction. Winner of the
Award “Chancellerie des Universités”.

2004-2005 DEA (postgraduate degree) in History of Science, centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS, Paris.
Dissertation on “Context and content in the Science Studies: a critical reading of Bruno Latour’s
works”, under the supervision of A. Dahan. With highest distinction. Winner of the award
Young researcher ‘science and society', Grenoble Alpes-Métropole — CNRS.

2002-2003 DEA (postgraduate degree) in Philosophy, University of Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle. Dissertation on
“Education and freedom in democracy in Simone Weil’s writings”, under the supervision of F.
Worms. With highest distinction.

2001-2002 Agrégation of philosophy (national competitive exam).

2000-2001 Philosophy master’s degree (maîtrise), University Paris 1.

1999-2000 Philosophy degree (Paris 10 Nanterre-University) 

1999-2005 Student at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris (admission after a national competitive exam)

Awards

Award from the Fondation pour les Sciences Sociales (call for proposals on the notion of trust), 2018 

“Prix jeune chercheur” (Young researcher award) 2012 of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences for my article “Theorising and Representational Practices in Genetics”, Biological Theory, 2012

“Prix de la Chancellerie des universités” for my PhD dissertation

“Prix Jeune Chercheur Sciences et Société” (Young researcher science and society, first price: gratification from Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole, CCSTI and Gresec — Stendhal University, in partnership with CNRS) for my postgraduate dissertation (DEA) in History of Science.

Individual research funding, grants and scholarships

Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, 2019-2024.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie intra-European individual fellowship for the project “Reasonable Doubt: An epistemological and psychological approach”, hosted by Birkbeck College, London, 2015-2017.

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (3 years full time) for the project “The collective dimension of science”, to be hosted by Cambridge University, History and Philosophy of Science department (declined).

Research Foundation — Flanders (FWO) Post-doctoral fellowship (3 years full time renewable once) for the project “The epistemic and cognitive role of images in science”, to be hosted by the University of Antwerp (declined).

FNRS (Belgian Fonds national de la recherche scientifique) research fellowship (“chargé de recherche” appointment, 3 years full time renewable once) for a project on the collective dimension of science, to be hosted by University of Liège (declined).

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral fellowship for a project on “The cognitive basis of scientific reasoning, learning, and decision-making: the nature and role of representation”, hosted at UCL, 2011-2012.

PhD fellowship as an “Allocataire Monitrice Normalienne” at Paris 1 University, 2005-2008.

Grant from the Comité national d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (French Academy of Sciences) for participation to the 13th international congress of history of science and technology, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

Grant “Aires Culturelles” from Paris 1 University for research stay at New York University as a visiting scholar, sept-dec. 2007.

Grant from the Comité national d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (French Academy of Sciences) for participation to the 13th congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Beijing, China, 2007.

“Lavoisier” Scholarship for my stay in India, 2003-2004).

Honorary research positions, affiliations, and invitations

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), “Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science” programme (invitation to short time stays and workshops participations, 2016)

Honorary research fellow at UCL, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences (2012-2017); Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (2019-2024)

Affiliated research scholar at Cambridge University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (2012-2015).

Visiting Scholar, New York University, Philosophy Department, on invitation by Professor Ned Block (sept.-dec. 2007).

Scientific Advisory Board membership

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French national public health agency (Santé Publique France), 2021-2025

Member of PhD defense committees

Member of Stéphanie Debray’s PhD defense committee (La science et ses contrefaçons : rôles légitimes et illégitimes des valeurs, des preuves et des agents dans lespratiques et les décisions scientifiques, supervisors: Cyrille Imbert and Gerhard Heinzmann, University of Lorraine, Archives Henri-Poincaré), Nancy, France, 13 Dec. 2023

Member of Luca Rivelli’s PhD defense committee (Modularity, Antimodularity, and Explanation in Complex Systems, supervisors: Philippe Huneman, IHPST, CNRS, University of Paris 1, France & Fabio Grigenti, University of Padua), Padua, Italy, Nov. 2016

Expert panels

Member of the HCERES evaluation committee for the research unit IRePh (Institut de Recherches Philosophiques), University of Paris Nanterre (EA373), 2019.

Member of Luca Rivelli’s thesis committee (Modularity, Antimodularity, and Explanation in Complex Systems, supervisors: Philippe Huneman, IHPST, CNRS, University Paris 1, France & Fabio Grigenti, University of Padua), Padua, Italy, 2016

Member of the HCERES evaluation committee for the research unit “Activation de LYmphocite T, surveillance du Stress et Auto-immunité”, Bordeaux, 2015

Academic member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College (2012-2016)

Member of several interview committees for the recruitment of assistants professor (maîtres de conférences), Paris 1 (2014 & 2015), Paris 4 (2015), external reviewer for the EHESS (2015).

Member of the committee for attribution of the “Young researcher award” (Société de philosophie des sciences)

Editorial board member and journal referee

Referee for several international journals: Mind and Language, Cognition, Biology and Philosophy, The Monist, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Studies, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Synthese, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Erkenntis, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, Science and Education, Perspectives on Science, Lato Sensu.

Member of the advisory board of the Springer book series SAPERE.

Responsibilities

Assistant and associate professors elected representative at the philosophy école doctorale of University Paris 1 (since 2023)

Référente « développement durable » à l’Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (depuis 2022)

Head of the team Décision, rationalité et interaction (DRI) at IHPST, with Mikaël Cozic since 2017, sole responbility since 2022

Member of the laboratory board (conseil de laboratoire) of IHPST, representing of assistant professors (since 2018)

Treasurer of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (since 2018)

Member of the executive board (conseil d’administration) of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (since 2014)

Representative of the philosophy department for international relations, Paris 1 (2013-2015)

PhD students representative at the philosophy école doctorale of University Paris 1 (2007-2009)

Conference and workshop organisation (as a main organiser)

Chair of the thematic section “philosophy of argumentation” at the 25th world congress in philosophy, Rome, Italt, 1-8 Aug. 2024.

Co-organiser (with Vincent Ardourel, Isabelle Drouet and Cyrille Imbert) of the Models, representation, and computation conference, tribute to Paul Humphreys and Margaret Morrison, Paris, 13-15 June 2024

Co-organiser (with Isabelle Drouet) of the symposium “Transparency in pharmaceutical research: how much should and can the public demand?”, EPSA23, Belgrade, Serbia, 21 Sept. 2023.

Co-organiser (with Isabelle Drouet and Robin Lamarche-Perrin) of a workshop on the prediction of social phenomena, co-funded by the Socété de Philosophie des Sciences, SPS and the Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle, AFIA (February 2020, forthcoming)

Main organiser of ReaDoubt international conference, “From Reasonable Doubt to Undue Scepticism”, co-organiser: Ulrike Hahn), Birkbeck College, London, UK (May 2017). Website: http://readoubtproject.wixsite.com/conference

Main organiser of CompuPhys international conference, “Knowing and Understanding with Computer Simulations”, co-organiser: Anouk Barberousse), Paris, France (June 2011)

Collective projects (leader or member)

Member of the ANR project “Covid long : Processus de contestation et de stabilisation d'une pathologie émergente”, Jan. 2024-Dec. 2026, PI: Alexandra Soulier (IHPST).

PI (with Christine Noiville, CNRS, ISJPS) of a “Politique Scientifique” (Paris) programme, ”Les SHS et la pandémie : Sciences, expertise, décision“, 2021-2023.

Member of an IRS (Initiatives de Recherche Stratégiques) project funded by Université Grenoble-Alpes IDEX on Judges’ evidential reasoning (Raiso-Preuve), starting 2019.

Member of an IRN (International Research Network) on ‘Justice and Interest’, starting 2019.

Co-leader (with Etienne Vergès) of an interdisciplinary research group on judges’ evidential reasoning (since 2016). Agreement with the Ecole nationale de la magistrature (ENM), involving research funding, in exchange of teaching sessions for training, and professional judges (2017-2019).

Member of MSH-Lorraine project Colexia, on collective dimension of science, leader: Cyrille Imbert (2011-2014).

Member of ANR Project CompuPhys, PI: Anouk Barberousse (2009-2011).

Participation to conferences organisation

Member of the programme committee for the Société de Philosophie des Sciences congress, Nantes, France, 4-6 July 2018

Member of the steering committee of the ‘Science and Conspiracy’ international conference & workshop University of Padua, Italy, 28-30 Nov. 2016

Member of the programme committee of Models and Simulations 7 conference, Barcelona, Spain, 18-20 May 2016

Member of the scientific committee of the conference on “Uncertainty in Climate Science and its Impact on Decision-Making”, Paris-Sorbonne, 26-28 May 2016

Member of the programme committee for the Société de Philosophie des Sciences congress, Lille, France, June 2014

Member of the programme committee for the Models and Simulations 6 conference, Notre Dame, USA, May 2014

Member of the organisation committee for Société de philosophie des sciences congress, Geneva, 29-31 march 2007

Summer schools (organisation, participation as a student or as a teacher)

Invited teacher at the Société de philosophie analytique summer school in philosophy of science, St Jacut-de-la-Mer, France (Sept. 2014)

Member of the organisation committee for the CNRS summer school on Cognitive bases of scientific images, Roscoff, France (June 2006).

CNRS summer school “Images: Content, recognition, classification”, Paris, France (July 2012).

CNRS summer school “Consciousness and action”, Cargèse, France (June 2007).

Scholarly societies membership

Member of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS).

Member of the Société de Philosophie Analytique (SOPHA).

Member of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP)

Member of European Philosophy of Science Association

At École nationale de la magistrature (ENM), two-day training in evidential reasoning for French judges, 26 sept. & 28 Nov. 2019

At ‘Valeo’, one-day training on scientific method, 6 Nov. 2019

Co-supervisor (with Alexandre Billon) of Sylvain Montalvo’s PhD, University of Lille 3.

Supervisor of several dozens of M1 and M2 theses at Paris 1.

Supervisor of a M1 thesis in cognitive psychology at University Lyon 2, EMC - Laboratoire d'étude des mécanismes cognitifs, 2015-2016

At University of Paris 1

Coordinator of undergraduate courses of epistemology and philosophy of science at Paris 1, 2012-2015, and since 2023.

Representative of Philosophy department for the International relations in Paris 1 (selection of outgoing exchange students (Erasmus and other), support of incoming exchanges students, development of agreements with foreign universities, 2013-2015. 

Member of a dozen of Master 2 theses committee

At Ecole normale supérieure

Tutor at the department of philosophy, and representative of the IHPST (2012-2015)

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