EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

The 2025-26 EPSA Fellowship competition is open until 31 March 2025.

Participating Institutions 2025/26

The EPSA Fellowship scheme is made possible by the generous support of these participating institutions, which cover the full costs of the visits. We would like to express our enormous gratitude to each and every one of them.

The following participating institutions (in alphabetical order) will each welcome one fellow, in the areas suggested by the key words:


Institution

Department

Keywords

1

Aarhus University, Denmark

Centre for Science Studies

Broad areas: History and philosophy of science/mathematics, scientometrics, social epistemology, metaphilosophy, history of philosophy of science

Specific topics: theory choice, case study approach, rationality, explanation, predictivism debate, experimental philosophy, authorship, collaboration, publication, Kuhn, realism debate, visual thinking in math, structuralism in math

2

University of the Basque Country, Spain

IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of biology, organizational approach & organicism, extended evolutionary synthesis, individuality, teleology, hierarchies & levels of organization, origins & definition of life, symbiosis, Gaia hypothesis, dialectical systems, complex systems, models of reproduction, pregnancy, health and disease, agency, enactivism, situated cognition, sensorimotor life

3

University of Bordeaux

Immunoconcept 

Strong preference for applicants who have a background in the biological or biomedical sciences and have a strong interest in actively collaborating with scientists

4

University of Bristol, UK

Department of Philosophy

Philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, metaphysics of science, philosophy of AI, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of psychology

5

University of Bucharest, Romania

ICUB-Humanities & Faculty of Philosophy

-Early modern science, Bacon, Descartes; 

-Philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry;

-Philosophy of logic, higher order logics and set theory;

-Ethics of AI, applied ethics of emerging technologies, cognitive technologies

6

University of Exeter, UK

Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis)

Philosophy of the life sciences

7

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Department of Philosophy

Philosophy of physics

8

Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany

Institute fur Philosophie

Candidates must hold PhD and work on a topic related to trust in science

9

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Vienna, Austria

 

- History and Philosophy of Biology, esp. Life Sciences

Specific topics: 

- EvoDevo; evolutionary medicine; cognition

10

London School of Economics, UK (up to £1k)

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science

Decision theory, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of economics, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of cognitive science, AI ethics, philosophy of probability, formal epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of law

11

Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Centre for the Philosophy of Science and Society

History and Philosophy of Biology, digital humanities, evolution, chance, philosophy of physics, emergence, symmetry, philosophy of maths

12

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Institute d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST)

Philosophy of ecology; biodiversity; stochasticity; data-mining; ground; rationality; mathematical practice; structural realism

13

Università degli Studi di Torino (University of Turin), Italy

Center for Logic, Language and Cognition

Probabilistic inference, causal inference, confirmation and induction, philosophy of psychology/neuroscience, psychology of reasoning, scientometrics, logic, conditional reasoning

14

University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Descartes Centre

Philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology

15TU Munich, GermanyDepartment of Science, Technology and Society

Philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology

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