Project

Philosophy of Scientific Practice

Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/254
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • General philosophy of science
    • Philosophy of mathematics
    • Philosophy of social science
    • Philosophy of natural sciences
    • Philosophy of medical and biomedical sciences
Keywords
scientific explanation causation evidence-based policy lawfullnes
 
Project description

In this project I will further expand my research in practice-oriented philosophy of science. More specifically, I continue to work on four interlinked topics:

1. Causality, with three pillars (meaning, evidence and use) in various scientific domains.

2 The concept of law, especially in the social sciences.

3. Scientific explanations in various scientific domains (empirical sciences but also mathematics).

4. Evidence-based policy (including evidence-based management) with an emphasis on extrapolation of causal knowledge and analogical reasoning.