Christoph Merdes (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy of Science and Social Epistemology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. He received the title Dr. Des. (Dr. phil. Pending on the publication of the dissertation) in philosophy from the LMU Munich, specifically at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. The dissertation is titled “Collective Rationality. An Agent-Based Approach”. He holds a B. A. in philosophy and computer science, and an M.Sc. in computer science, both from the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research interests are social epistemology, philosophy of computer simulation and normative political philosophy. These resarch interests are bound together by a methodological focus on formal reconstruction, in particular with agent-based models and simulations. He is currently employed as a ‘wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ at the Center for Applied Philosophy of Science and Key Qualifications at the FAU Erlangen Nürnberg. For more information, please visit his website.