Research
Areas of
Specialization
General Philosophy of Science
scientific concepts, explanation, individual-based research, interdisciplinarity,
methodology of philosophy of science, causality, reduction, complexity, normativity
Philosophy of Biology
reductive explanation, causal modeling, mechanistic explanation,
biological individuality, ecological niche, animal personality, environment
Metaphysics
mechanisms, phenomena, part-whole relations, biological dispositions,
causal systems, individuality/uniqueness
Ongoing
Research Projects
This project aims at exploring and integrating major concepts used to study individualization in different disciplines: concepts of individualisation (and individuality) and concepts of ...
The TRR-SFB 212 is a paradigm example of Individual-Based Research (IBR), which studies individuals and their interactions with the environment. This project provides a philosophical framework ...
Past
Research Projects
This research group brings together ecologists, computer scientists and philosophers of biology with the aim of synthesizing ecological knowledge and making it useful for ecosystem restoration.
The project asks what biological dispositions are, how they are individuated, what makes them complex, whether they are extrinsic and come in degrees, and how they relate to their causal basis ...
This project explicates what individualized ecological niches are and how they relate to mechanisms of niche choice, conformance, and construction. My philosophical analysis focuses on three ...
Scientific metaphysics is based on the idea that metaphysics — the study of what the world is ultimately like — should be informed by the remarkable success of science. Opponents argue that the ...