I am a philosopher and cognitive scientist interested in how science works, how it could, and how it should work.
I work as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. My research is currently funded by the ERC Consolidator grant Scientist in the loop - Automation of scientific discovery (SCI-AI).
The general aim of my research is to better understand scientific problem-solving: Science is the humanity’s most successful problem-solving system, and the primary source of epistemic authority in modern societies.
I view & model science as a distributed cognitive system, “problem-solving writ large.” How does…
I am a philosopher and cognitive scientist interested in how science works, how it could, and how it should work.
I work as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. My research is currently funded by the ERC Consolidator grant Scientist in the loop - Automation of scientific discovery (SCI-AI).
The general aim of my research is to better understand scientific problem-solving: Science is the humanity’s most successful problem-solving system, and the primary source of epistemic authority in modern societies.
I view & model science as a distributed cognitive system, “problem-solving writ large.” How does that system function at different levels of analysis ranging from individual scientists to research groups and scientific communities?
And how should it function - what are the social, cognitive, and institutional preconditions of well-functioning scientific research?