My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more
The central questions of this research project are: i) What is the correlation between the adoption of Newtonian physics and the acceptance of determinism? ii) Should the question whether nature ...read more
A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation can be characterized as follows: (1) it starts from the idea that why-questions originate in different epistemic interests, (2) it answers questions about the ...read more
The general aim of this project is to study the structure and dynamics of values and norms from a formal logical point of view. Conflicts between values and/or norms will ...read more
In today's literature on scientific explanation causal-mechanist accounts have become so dominant that they have pushed unificationism into the background. However, scientists themselves still apply the concept of unification in ...read more