Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow of Ghent University, a member of Ghent's Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science and, currently, a Visiting Scholar at NYU's Department of Philosophy. My primary research and teaching areas are: philosophy of the social sciences (including economics), general philosophy of science, philosophy of the biomedical sciences, (mainly social) epistemology and social metaphysics. My current research is centred on the idea of scientific pluralism - and how it can be elucidated by models of democracy. Two components can be distinguished. The first component elaborates our understanding of scientific pluralism in relation with more traditional topics in philosophy of science (e.g., the theory of scientific explanation, causality, social ontology, scientific objectivity and values in science). The second component deals with the institutional context within which scientific pluralism and science as public knowledge (should) operate - an exercise in social epistemology.

Out now! The Social Sciences and Democracy - Palgrave Macmillan.

Reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science and New Political Science.