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
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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.