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Steering Committee Elections 2019 < Denis Bonnay
Denis is running for the office of Steering Committee officer.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, and I am also an associate member at the IHPST in Paris. My research interests range from logic and theories of individual and collective rationality to general philosophy of science, with most of my work within those areas pertaining to formal philosophy. In the past, my main contributions have been to the characterization of logicality. In the recent years, I have been working on broader issues regarding rationality in the context of probabilistic updates and judgment aggregation or in relation to techniques of descriptive statistics such as clustering methods. I have published in Philosophy and Logic journals such as the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, and Erkenntnis. I have recendly co-edited The Philosophy of Science. A Companion published by Oxford University Press. I have been regularly involved in European research projects funded by the ESF or national research agencies (most recently, a Franco-German project on deliberation and aggregation). During the last four years, I have served on the board of the French national evaluation committee for research and teaching in philosophy. I am also the head of the distant learning master program in philosophy at Nanterre.
The European Philosophy of Science Association is now a well-established institution which plays a major role in bringing together philosophers of science from all over Europe, providing new academic spaces for discussions and debates, and promoting a European spirit to our discipline. As a steering committee member, I would first of all be proud to contribute to this continuing effort. I would consider as our main priorities to encourage the diversity of research, in terms of who, what and where. I also think that, in a context where the voices of science and rationality sometimes go unheard or downtrodden, philosophy of science, through its practitioners and representatives, should play its part and contribute to raise social awareness of issues regarding the role of science in society. Finally, on a more specific note, as a formal philosopher, I would wish to contribute to the mutual enrichment of logic and philosophy of science which has shaped our field in the past.