European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - SC Elections 2019

EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Steering Committee Elections 2019 < Dunja Šešelja

Dunja Šešelja

Dunja is running for the office of Steering Committee officer.

Biography

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Before joining MCMP, I held visiting professorships at the University of Vienna and Ghent University, and postdoctoral positions at Ghent University and Ruhr-University Bochum. I serve as an associate editor for the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. I am also a member of the steering committee of the Scientific Research Network “Logical and Methodological Analysis of Scientific Reasoning Processes” with the core at Ghent University, and an associate member of the Research Group for Non-Monotonic Logics and Formal Argumentation at Ruhr-University Bochum. My research aims at the integration of historically informed philosophy of science and formal models of scientific inquiry. I have published in various international journals on the assessment of the pursuit-worthiness of scientific theories, on historical case-studies in earth sciences and medicine, and on formal models of scientific inquiry. My current research focuses on agent-based modeling of scientific inquiry. In particular, I investigate their epistemic and methodological merits and limitations, as well as fruitful applications. For more information see my webpage.

Candidate Statement

I have been an active member of the EPSA community for the last eight years: first, by presenting my work at each bienniall EPSA conference since 2011 (in Athens, Helsinki, Düsseldorf and Exeter), and second, by serving as an associate editor for the European Journal for Philosophy of Science since July 2017. In view of this, I would be thrilled to become a member of the EPSA Steering Committee. Beside contributing to EPSA's continuing growth as one of the central institutions in philosophy of science across Europe and beyond, I would strive to achieve the following objectives:

Increasing the visibility of underrepresented groups in philosophy of science: by working together with the EPSA Women’s Caucus, as well as organizations such as Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) to identify particularly underrepresented groups and ways of increasing their visibility.
Fostering the integration of junior scholars into the EPSA community: first, by exploring the possibility of an EPSA Summer School, which would precede each EPSA conference, and which would consist of expert tutorials for graduate students; second, by attracting financial aids that would help to establish a traveling grant system, aimed at helping tal- ented junior scholars to participate in EPSA events, such as the above mentioned summer school (especially targeting underrepresented groups, thereby addressing Objective 1 as well).
Increasing the impact of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science: by working together with both the EPSA Steering Committee and the EJPS Editorial Board to, first, plan ways of attracting special issues on hot topics in philosophy of science; second, to explore novel regular sections within EJPS, designed to encourage discussion among experts in the given field (e.g. an 'Adversarial Section' where we would invite 2-3 scholars from different sides of a given debate to write articles on the given topic).