Members and Guests

Dunja Šešelja (permanent student, aka full professor, Wasserstraße 221, office 4/202)

Dunja is working in social epistemology and philosophy of science. She serves as a co-editor in chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Her research topics include formal modeling of scientific inquiry (with focus on agent-based modeling), scientific disagreements and controversies, pursuit-worthiness of scientific theories, and integrated history and philosophy of science. Find more information on her academia page and her page at TU Eindhoven, where she is employed on 25%.

Christian Straßer (permanent student aka full professor, Wasserstraße 221, office 4/401)

Christian is a professor of Logic in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Philosophy II at Ruhr University Bochum. He is specialized in non-monotonic logics, defeasible reasoning, argumentation, deontic and adaptive logics. He is interested in utilizing formal methods (such as logical or computational methods) in philosophy. Beyond logic his research interests spread into the philosophy of science and social epistemology. You find more information on him here and his CV here (and a pdf here).

Prof. Dr. Dr. Cali (Hoomanologist)

The –without doubt– most prominent and cheerful member of the group is the Hoomanologist Cali, specialized for Hooman intelligence and well-known for his books “How to train the hooman. The limitations of the hooman mind.” While working in our group he also got interested in logic, see his latest book “My barks don’t lie. Semantic paradoxes as a trademark of Hooman language.” Yes, we can learn a lot from him …

Matteo Michelini (Cotutelle PhD student, TU Eindhoven and Ruhr-University Bochum)

Matteo is a cotutelle PhD student of TU Eindhoven and Ruhr University Bochum. He works with agent-based models in the areas of social epistemology and philosophy of science.
Matteo is jointly supervised by Dunja and Wybo Houkes.

Luca Redondi (PhD, Wasserstraße, office 4/422)

Luca has a background in ethics with a focus on Kant and is especially interested in deontic logic. He works on applications of deontic logic and explanation in bioethics within the LoDEx project on Logical Methods for Deontic Explanation.

Minkyung Wang (PostDoc, Wasserstraße 221, office 4/403)

Minkyung is a postdoctoral researcher in Logic in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. Her current research focuses on integrating logical and probabilistic reasoning, which is addressed in formal epistemology, social epistemology, and formal argumentation. As a mathematical philosopher, she is keen on using formal methods to solve philosophical problems, particularly those related to epistemology, decision theory, and ethics. Her webpage is here.

Eliot Watkins (PostDoc, Wasserstraße, office 4/403)

Eliot Watkins joined the research group as a postdoc in 2024 after completing a PhD in Philosophy at MIT. His research focuses on the nature of reasons and the semantics of normative natural language. Examples of some of the more unusual positions defended by Eliot in recent work include the claim that reasons to eat ham sandwiches needn’t be reasons to eat sandwiches, and the claim that there are normative reasons for smoke detectors to behave in some ways and not others. At Bochum, Eliot is working as a part of LoDEX (Logical Methods of Deontic Explanation) — a WEAVE-funded collaboration between Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Vienna and the University of Luxembourg. You can find out more about his research here.

Soong Yoo (PhD student, Wasserstraße 221, office 4/423)

Should epistemic workers of the world unite? There are some thoughts or decision we would make only when hanging around with friends, colleagues, and strangers. Same for people doing cognitive tasks for their living. Soong is working with agent-based-models in hope to see how computer simulations would predict and suggest a better conveyor belt of knowledge production.
Soong is jointly supervised by Dunja and Christian.