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East European Network for Philosophy of Science |
Regional network for philosophers of science
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The East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) is a network of philosophers of science and researchers from related disciplines educated, affiliated, or working at the academic institutions in the broadly understood region of the East Europe. We define 'Eastern Europe' flexibly and the network is open to all, regardless of their current country of residence or country of origin.
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Goals and activities
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The aim of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science is to provide a forum for collaboration among philosophers of science through regular meetings, invitation and exchange of visitors, and funding for participation at various international events.
Bridging science and philosophy
Equally important is the effort to engage and promote stronger connections between departments of sciences and philosophy departments within the Network.
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Regional collaboration
Activities in the Network serve to promote new and lasting research collaboration among philosophers of science in the region and with international partners, to promote participation of philosophers of science from this region in important international conferences, and support research processes that can lead to high quality, ambitious and socially relevant scholarly outcomes.
Educating
One of Network’s aims is promoting the philosophy of science among students, particularly of non-philosophical departments, via educational activities. The Network encourages students to take part in the seminars and it will organize lectures and other educational activities, like summer schools, within the scope of philosophy of science and related areas.
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Join us!
New members can join the network by filling out the application form or by sending an email to the address eenphilsci@gmail.com with the following information: Name, title, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address.
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Steering committee (since 2020)
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Borut Trpin, Co-founder and Coordinator
Borut obtained a PhD degree (2018) in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on learning from conditionals. In 2018 he was awarded an Ernst Mach Grant for postdoctoral research, which he conducted in the Department of Philosophy (KGW) at the University of Salzburg (study year 2018/2019). In 2019 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers to research probabilistic versions of inference to the best explanation at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Borut’s main research interests are in formal epistemology and philosophy of science. Some of the topics that particularly interest him are different kinds of probabilistic belief updating, inference to the best explanation, and indicative conditionals. He likes to use computer simulations for philosophical research. |
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Daniel Kostić, Co-founder, deputy coordinator, and secretary
Daniel is a Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellow (from September 2020) at the Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. From 2016 until 2018, he held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the IHPST (CNRS-Sorbonne Pantheon Paris 1) working on his project "Philosophical Foundations of Topological Explanations" (Acronym: TOPEX, GA n°: 703662). The overarching theme of his research is understanding the scientific explanation. In the last couple of years, he has been working on a comprehensive account of topological explanations, especially in neuroscience. Work on topological explanations has led him to a larger, more normative issue of any successful explanation. He is currently developing a set of epistemic norms that can be universally applied to both causal and non-causal explanations. |
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Elena Trufanova, Co-founder
Elena is a Leading Research Fellow and the Head of the Department of the Theory of Knowledge at the RAS Institute of Philosophy and a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the State Academic University for the Humanities (both in Moscow, Russia). She graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the State Academic University for the Humanities in 1999, defended the Ph.D. thesis (Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy in Russian academic ranks) in 2007 and Dr.hab. thesis (Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy) in 2018. Her research interests lie in the field of epistemology and philosophical and interdisciplinary studies of the problems of consciousness, the Self and personal identity. She is the Executive Editor of the journal “Filosofija nauki i tehniki / Philosophy of Science and Technology” (ISSN 2413-9084). |
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Magdalena Małecka
Magdalena is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (Stanford, Helsinki). After defending her PhD in philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2014, she has undertaken research at Stanford University, University of Helsinki, Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Central European University, European University Institute, University of California, Berkeley. In September 2020 she will join the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, as a fellow at the School of Social Science. She has published on a variety of topics in the philosophy of the social and behavioural sciences, philosophy of economics, philosophy of law. Currently her research interests are shifting towards political economy and feminist philosophy of science. She is a recipient of prestigious prizes and grants funded by the European Commission, Academy of Finland, Poland’s National Centre for Science, Foundation for Polish Science. She is involved in the works of the journal Oeconomia- History, Methodology, Philosophy as a member of the editorial board. |
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Maria Panagiotatou
Maria holds a Physics degree (1995) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from the National Technical University of Athens (funded by an NTUA scholarship). In 2011 she completed her PhD in philosophy of physics with a dissertation titled: “Looking into the possibility of a realist approach of quantum physics - old and new myths”. From August 2012 to September 2015, Maria was a post-doctoral researcher in Thalis program “Aspects and Prospects of Realism in the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics”, whose principal investigator was Professor Stathis Psillos. From 2016 to 2017 she taught general philosophy of science at the University of Patras and from 2018 to 2020 philosophy of physics at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Since 2019 she is an Associate Editor of the journal International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, together with Professor Vasso Kindi (Editor in Chief) and Professor Miles Macleod (Associate Editor). |
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Martin Zach
Martin is based in Prague (Czech Republic) at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University. He works on the philosophical aspects of scientific modeling in the context of the life sciences, with a particular focus on immunological research. He was a visiting researcher at the ImmunoConcEpT lab in Bordeaux, the University of Helsinki and the London School of Economics. |
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Özlem Yılmaz, Co-founder
Özlem is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at University of Exeter. She does research in philosophy of science, specifically in philosophy of plant biology. She has a BSc in biology, a MSc in biology education, and a MSc. in environmental sciences. She has a PhD in biology -2011- and a PhD in philosophy -2020- (both: Ege University, İzmir). She was selected for the first cohort of EPSA fellows and she visited Egenis, Exeter in 2016. As a biologist, she was a trainee PhD student in the Plant Energy Biology Lab of University of Sydney (2008-2009); a PhD candidate researcher in the Plant Physiology Lab of Sabancı University (2009-2011) and, later, a post-doc in the same lab (2013-2016). As a philosopher, she worked as a post-doc in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of İstanbul Technical University (2017-2019) and she was a Writing-up Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg (2018). |
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Richard David-Rus, Co-founder
Richard is a researcher at the Institute of Anthropology Francisc I Rainer of the Romanian Academy and a lecturer at the University of Bucharest. With a background both in natural sciences (Physics BS, Statistics MS) and humanities (BA, MA philosophy), he earned his PhD from University of Munich in 2010. His research interests in philosophy of science concern scientific explanation and understanding. His scientific research focuses on modeling and data analysis in anthropology and biomedical sciences. |
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Sorin Bangu
Sorin Bangu is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway. He is originally from Bucharest, Romania, where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Univeristy of Toronto. His main area of competence is contemporary philosophy of science, rather broadly understood. Most of his work is in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of physics, and very often addresses issues at their boundary. He also ventures into metaphysics and epistemology (when scientifically relevant), philosophy of logic and history of science and mathematics. He has longstanding interests in the history of analytic philosophy, in Quine and especially later Wittgenstein. |
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Vlasta Sikimić
Vlasta is a research fellow at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Foundational Research of the University of Tübingen. Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and an associate member of the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology at the same faculty. Her research focuses on formal and empirical philosophy of science, responsible science policy, and logic. Specifically, she works on data-driven and formal approaches to optimization of scientific reasoning. Her empirical research includes qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys with scientists with the goal of understanding both the existential and epistemic challenges they are facing. |
