A Short Bio
I hold degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA in Philosophy 1998) and the London School of Economics (PhD in Philosophy 2004). Currently, I'm a Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London (NUL). I'm also a UCU rep at the university, helping to negotiate fair and transparent work and pay conditions, as well as helping to ensure that our employer remains competitive, retaining and recruiting the best faculty and students. Beyond Northeastern University London, I'm a member of the Turing Institute's Humanities and Data Science Special Interest Group, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advanced HE). I spend some of my free time developing the app The Logic Calculator.
In recent years, I have been the Research Head for the cluster 'Reimagining Higher Education in the Age of AI' as well as the Diploma Director at NUL. I have also been a Visiting Scholar at the Openproof project, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, and a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. Prior to that I spent several years at the University of Düsseldorf, where I occupied a number of positions including that of Assistant Director and Research Fellow at the Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science. I have also been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens as well as a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Bristol.
My main area of expertise is the philosophy of science, particularly the scientific realism debate, but I also have active research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of artificial intelligence and meta-philosophy. Research that I conducted into these areas has been furthered via a number of grants, e.g. from the German Research Foundation and the British Academy, for which I am very grateful. My work has been published in several journals including the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Synthese.
Together with various colleagues, I edited a number of special issues on themes like democracy, public debate and political decision-making, computationalism and the philosophy of information, underdetermination of theory by evidence, the role and value of novel predictions in confirmation, the nature of unification and coherence and the extent to which observation is theory-laden. I have also co-edited the European Philosophy of Science Association 2013 Conference Proceedings (Springer 2015).
I'm currently working on various projects, including how to model analogical reasoning, a neuro-symbolic approach to automating scientific discovery, the epistemology of machine learning, a visual representation of logical inferences, a variant of the resolution principle in automated theorem proving, and pedagogical experiments on conditional reasoning.
For more details please consult my CV: CV Sept 2025 [PDF]