Philosophy and Science

I studied philosophy at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, with a focus on logic and metaphysics, graduating in 2001. After more than a decade in the working world, I felt something was missing in my intellectual life, and so in 2015 I returned to academia. I finished my Master's in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy in September 2017 while working on a research project for the Center for Advanced Studies. In October 2017, I began my PhD in Neuroscience at the GSN, and I successfully defended in July 2024. My interests include argumentation and reasoning in science, science communication and the public sphere; economics and development; AI and machine learning; game theory and decision-making under uncertainty. I’m currently working on the application of mathematics to decision problems.

Selected Talks

• The case for truly interdisciplinary science, keynote at GSN graduation, Munich, December 2019

• What’s the point of philosophy - Aristotle and the flat Earth at Science Slam, Munich, November 2019 (winner)

• What’s the point of philosophy? at Lightning Talks, Munich, November 2019

• What’s the point of philosophy? at Science Slam, Heidelberg, October 2019

• Wozu Philosophie? at DGN Congress 2019 Science Slam, Stuttgart, September 2019

• What has philosophy ever done for me? at Munich Science Slam, June 2019 (winner)

• Formal Models in Cognitive Psychology at ECAP 9, Munich, August 2017

• Bayesian Utility Conditionals and Arguments from Consequence at Reasoning and Argumentation in Science, Munich, June 2017

Selected Publications

• What's Hot in Mathematical Philosophy in The Reasoner Volume 12, Number 4, April 2018