Teaching & Service
Teaching, supervision, grants, and academic service.
Teaching
I teach philosophy of science at master's level across three Belgian universities. My courses cover research methodology, the philosophy of science and mathematics, and selected topics at the frontier of philosophy and AI.
Developing and Writing Research Proposals in Philosophy
InterUniversity Research Master in Philosophy
UGent UAntwerpen VUB 2024-25, 2025-26
Philosophy of Science: Capita Selecta
Master of Science in Teaching in Arts and Humanities & Master of Arts in Philosophy
UGent 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
InterUniversity Research Master in Philosophy
UGent 2023-24
Panel member for Master dissertations at Ghent University (2022-2026)
Supervision
Yihui Cheng ongoing
PhD candidate, Ghent University
Advancing an Integration of Functional Explanation in Life Sciences, Engineering and Social Sciences
Grants and Prizes
| FWO Fellowship | Explanation in Explainable AI (2023-2026, PI, ~EUR 220,000) |
| BOF Fellowship | Can LLMs Contribute to Science? Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ghent University (2027-2030, PI) |
| FWO travel grant | Long-stay fund, Mechanistic Interpretability as a New Science, research stay at Butler University (2025) |
| IRP Voucher | Interdisciplinary Research Platform, Radboud University (EUR 50,000) |
| EPSA Prize | Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2021 (link) |
| Lorentz Workshop | Physics & Question-Answering Machines: Artificial Scientific Understanding? (link) |
Workshops and Conferences Organised
| 2024 | Lorentz Workshop: Physics & Question-Answering Machines: Artificial Scientific Understanding? (Leiden) |
| 2022 | SPSP 2022 — Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (Ghent University) |
| 2022 | Mathematics as/in Science (Ghent University) |
| 2019 | Reasoning about Evidence: Logical, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (Ghent University) |
| 2019 | Non-Causal Explanations: Logical, Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives (Ghent University) |
Refereeing
Journals
Erkenntnis European Journal of Philosophy of Science Synthese Philosophy & Technology Foundations of Science Frontiers in Physics AI & Society Mind and Matter Discover Artificial Intelligence Journal of Computational Social Science
Prizes
Jeunes Chercheurs, Jeunes Chercheuses (JCJC) prize
Workshop proposals
Evaluator for Lorentz Center workshop proposals and applications.