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NATIONALITY:
Cypriot
ACADEMIC POSTS:
07/2006 –
Research
Fellow, Philosophisches Institut, University of Duesseldorf.
- position
funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) since 2008
08/2010 – 12/2010 Visiting Fellow, Center
for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
09/2004 – 06/2006 Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University
of
Bristol.
EDUCATION:
1998 - 2004 London School of Economics
(University of London)
PhD. Philosophy ( awarded on September 30, 2004 ).
Title: ‘The Epistemological Status of Scientific Theories: An
Investigation of the Structural Realist Account’
Primary Supervisor: Prof. John Worrall
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Michael Redhead FBA
Internal Examiner: Prof. Donald Gillies (University College, London)
External Examiner: Prof. Peter Lipton (University of Cambridge)
1996 - 1998 University of California, Berkeley
BA Philosophy ( distinction in general scholarship
).
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. John Searle
PUBLICATIONS:
Editorship:
'Scientific Realism Quo Vadis? Theories, Structures,
Underdetermination and Reference', Synthese,
vol. 180(2), co-edited with Gerhard Schurz.
Articles:
1. ‘The Prospective Stance in Realism’, to appear in Philosophy
of Science.
2. ‘Data meet Theories: Up, Close and Inferentially Personal’, to
appear in Synthese, DOI
10.1007/s11229-009-9614-9.
3. (secondary author with Gerhard Schurz) ‘A Preliminary Application of
Frame-Theory to the Philosophy of
Science: The Phlogiston-Oxygen Case’, to appear in R. Osswald and S.
Loebner (eds.), Concept
Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science,
Springer.
4. ‘How not to be a Realist’, to appear in D. Rickles (ed.) Structure,
Objects and Causality, Western
Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Springer 2011, ch. 3.
5. (co-authored with Roman Frigg) ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know
about Structural Realism but Were Afraid to Ask’, to appear in European
Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2011, vol. 1(2): 227-276.
6. ‘Saving the Intuitions: Polylithic Reference’, Synthese,
2011, vol. 180(2): 121-137.
7. ‘Structural Realism: Continuity and its Limits’, in A. Bokulich and
P. Bokulich (eds.), Scientific Structuralism,
(Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Springer, 2011, pp. 105-117.
8. ‘Making Contact with Observations’, in M. Suárez, M. Dorato and M.
Rédei (eds.) EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences.
Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association,
vol. 2, Springer, 2010, pp. 267-277.
9. ‘Uninterpreted Equations and the Structure-Nature Distinction’, Philosophical
Inquiry, 2007, vol. 29(1-2): 57-71.
10. ‘The Upward Path to Structural Realism’, Philosophy of
Science, 2005, vol. 72(5): 1361-1372.
11. ‘Is Structure Not Enough?’, Philosophy of Science,
2003, vol. 70(5): 879-890.
Reviews & Reports:
Review of Anjan
Chakravartty’s A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the
Unobservable, Analysis, 2009, vol 69(2):378-380.
Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination, Journal
for General Philosophy of Science, 2009, vol. 40 (1):137-140.
Review of Yemima Ben-Menahem’s Conventionalism, Studies
in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2008, vol.
39(1):
234–237.
Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination, The
Reasoner, 2008, vol. 2(6): 5-6.
Review of Kyle Stanford’s Exceeding our Grasp: Science, History
and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives, International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2007, vol.21(1):
103-106.
Review of Ilkka Niiniluoto’s Critical Scientific Realism, Philosophy
of Science, 2003, vol.70(2): 444-447.
Submitted:
Proposal for a special issue on the Theory-Ladenness of Experience
In preparation:
Book on Structural Realism with F.A. Muller (Utrecht &
Rotterdam).
'Evidential Equivalence' co-authored with
Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf)
‘The Indefatigable Principium Contradictionis’
‘The Immaterial Conditional and its Logic’
'Perspectival Structural Realism'
'The Observation-Ladenness of Theory'
'Ecumenical Empiricism'
Review of Stathis Psillos’ Knowing the Structure of Nature, Philosophical
Quarterly.
Review of Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan’s (Eds.) How Well do Facts
Travel?, Metascience.
RESEARCH GROUPS:
2011 - 2015 University of Duesseldorf,
Project B4: ‘A frame-theoretic investigation
of unification and reduction in scientific theories’, part of the
Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991 ‘The Structure of Representations
in Language, Cognition, and Science’ funded by the DFG - German
Research Foundation.
2008 - 2011 University of Duesseldorf, Project B6: 'A frame-theoretic
investigation of the dynamics of scientific theories, their conceptual
systems and their realistic reference', part of the interdisciplinary
group FOR 600 ‘Functional Concepts and Frames’ funded by the DFG -
German Research Foundation.
2000 - 2004 London School of Economics, Centre for Philosophy of the
Natural and Social
Science
Structuralism project (Research Assistant)
Darwin@LSE project (Research Assistant )
REFEREE FOR:
Journals:
Australasian Journal of
Philosophy
British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science
Dialectica
Erkenntnis
European Journal for the Philosophy of Science
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science
Philosophical Papers
Polish Journal of Philosophy
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Synthese
Chapters in Books:
Stephan Hartmann and Luc Bovens (eds.)
(2006) Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science,
Routledge.
Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann (eds.) (2011) Probabilities
in Physics, Oxford University Press.
Publishers:
Routledge
SELECTED TALKS:
July 2011 – ‘Simplicity as a Guide to Falsity?’, 14th Congress of
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Nancy.
July 2011 – ‘Structural Realism and Causation: An Unhappy Marriage?’,
British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference,
University of Sussex.
May 2011 – ‘Runaway Models‘, Seminario di Logica e Filosofia della
Scienza, Università di Firenze.
May 2011 – ‘Endorsing the Methods of Science‘, Dipartimento di
Filosofia, Università di Pisa.
May 2011 – ‘Structural Realism meets the Social Sciences’, IMT
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca.
April 2011 – ‘ Philosophy and Science: Past, Present and Future‘, The
Metaphysical Society’s Annual Symposium, Trinity College Dublin.
Nov 2010 – ‘Epistemic and Ontic Commitments: In Perfect Alignment?’,
invited talk, Structuralism Workshop, University of Notre Dame.
Nov 2010 – ‘The Prospective Stance in Realism’, Philosophy of Science
Association Twenty-Second Biennial Meeting, Montreal.
Oct 2010 – ‘The Logic of Crucial Experiments’, Philosophy of Scientific
Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science, University of
Pittsburgh.
Sept 2010 – ‘Structural Realism: From an Epistemological Point of
View’, invited talk, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of
Pittsburgh.
July 2010 – ‘Heat in Inter-theory Relations’, British Society for the
Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University College Dublin.
June 2010 – ‘Scientific Representation and Perspective’, invited talk,
University of Bochum.
June 2010 – ‘Thinking about Scientific Understanding and Explanation as
a Structural Realist’, Understanding and the Aims of Science, Lorentz
Center, University of Leiden.
May 2010 – ‘The Pessimistic Meta-Inductivist: A Sheep in Wolf’s
Clothing?’, Philosophy of Science in a Forest (PSF2010), Dutch
Association for the Philosophy of Science.
Oct 2009 - 'The Double Life of Evidence: From the Streets to the
Labs', European Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Conference,
Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Sept 2009 – 'Structural Realism: Invariance through Theory Change',
SOPHA 2009,
University of Geneva (Switzerland).
June 2009 - 'Δομικός Ρεαλισμός: Ιστορική Συνοχή και τα Όρια της', 5th
Pan-Hellenic Conference in the History, Philosophy and Teaching of
Natural Sciences, University of Cyprus (Cyprus).
Aug 2009 - 'The Caloric Under a Frame-Theoretic Spotlight', with
Gerhard Schurz,
Concepts, Types and Frames in Language, Congition and Science,
University of Duesseldorf (Germany).
March 2009 - 'Metaphilosophical Ruminations on Theoretical Term
Reference', Research Seminar in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science,
University of Tilburg (Netherlands).
Sept. 2008 – 'Data Meet Theories: Up Close and Personal', Data -
Phenomena - Theories: What's the notion of a scientific phenomenon good
for?, University of Heidelberg (Germany).
Aug 2008 – 'Kuhn Loss: A Dilemma', Sixth European Congress for
Analytic Philosophy, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland).
July 2008 – 'Ecumenical Empiricism', Joint Session of the Aristotelian
Society and Mind Association, University of Aberdeen (UK).
July 2008 – 'What’s Wrong with the Problem of Unconceived
Alternatives?', British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual
Conference, University of St. Andrews (UK).
June 2008 - 'The Scope of Fiction: Comments on Tim Button's "Where
Fiction Ends and Reality Begins" ', MetaMetaphyics Conference at Logos
(Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona
(Spain).
April 2008 – 'Saving the Intuitions: Polylithic Reference', Theoretical
Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop, University of
Duesseldorf (Germany).
Nov. 2007 – 'Making Contact
with Observations', First Conference of the
European Philosophy of Science Association, Complutense University
Madrid (Spain).
Aug. 2007 – 'How not to be a Realist or Why we Ought to Make it Safe
for Closet Structural Realists to Come out', Structure, Objects and
Causality Workshop, Banff (Canada).
July 2007 – 'The Observation-Ladenness of Theory', Joint Session of the
Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of Bristol (UK).
Nov. 2006 – ‘Structural Realism 2.0’, Philosophy of Physics Research
Seminar, University of Oxford (UK).
June 2006 – ‘Structural Continuity and its Limits’, University of
Utrecht, (Netherlands).
May 2006 – ‘Seeing the Same Things’, Erasmus University Rotterdam
(Netherlands).
Aug. 2005 – ‘Deflating Scientific Explanation, or How to Make the
Realist Raft Float’, Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific
Understanding, Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
July 2005 – ‘Evidential Equivalence’, British Society for the
Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, (Manchester, UK).
Nov. 2004 – ‘The Upward Path to Structural Realism’, Philosophy of
Science Association Nineteenth Biennial Meeting, (Austin, TX, USA).
Aug. 2004 – ‘Caloric: Centre or Offstage?’, 8th Summer Symposium,
International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, (Durham, UK).
July 2004 – ‘N-Correspondence’, British Society for the Philosophy of
Science Annual Conference, (Kent, UK).
Aug. 2003 – ‘What the History of Science Cannot Teach Us’, 12th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science,
(Oviedo, Spain).
Nov. 2002 – ‘Is Structure Not Enough? ’, Philosophy of Science
Association Eighteenth Biennial Meeting, (Milwaukee, WI, USA).
July 2002 – ‘Overcoming Newman’s Objection’, Sixth National
Postgraduate Analytic Philosophy Conference, (Bristol, UK).
July 2002 – ‘Underdetermination: Quine and Ramsey’, British Society for
the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, (Glasgow, UK).
June 2002 – ‘Is Structure Not Enough?’, Fourth European Congress for
Analytic Philosophy, (Lund, Sweden).
Conference/Workshop/Symposium Organising:
March 10-11, 2011 University of Duesseldorf
The Theory-Ladenness of Experience. (Co-organised with Gerhard Schurz
and Michela Tacca), partly funded by the DFG Research Unit FOR 600
Functional Concepts and Frames.
February 25-26, 2011 University of Duesseldorf
Novel Predictions. (Co-organised with Ludwig Fahrbach and Gerhard
Schurz)
Oct 21-24, 2009 - European Philosophy of Science
Association Conference, Free University of Amsterdam
Symposium 'Different Methodologies, One Aim: Evidence
and Theory at the Confluence'. (Co-organised with Giora Hon, Maarten
van Dyck, Dave Lagnado and Jan Willem Romeijn)
April 10-12, 2008 University of Duesseldorf
Theoretical Frameworks and Underdetermination Workshop. (Co-organised
with Gerhard Schurz)
funded by the DFG Research Unit FOR
600 Functional Concepts and Frames
March 23, 2002 London School of Economics
Structural Realism and Newman’s Problem. (Co-organised with John
Worrall)
funded by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Scientific Committees:
June 11-14, 2009 University of Cyprus, 5th
Pan-Hellenic Conference in the History, Philosophy and Teaching of
Natural Sciences.
TEACHING:
Lectures:
University of Bristol, Department of
Philosophy:
2005 - 2006 First Term: Epistemology,
Philosophy of Science (intermediate)
Second
Term: Philosophy of Science (advanced)
2004 - 2005 First Term: Philosophy of
Science (intermediate)
Second
Term: Philosophy of Science (advanced)
Graduate/Advanced Seminars:
University of Düsseldorf, Philosophisches
Institut:
2010 - 2011 Second Term: Structural Realism
2009 - 2010 First Term: Evidence
Second
Term: Philosophical Logic
2008 - 2009 First Term: Intuitions
Second
Term: The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
2007 - 2008 First Term: Scientific Realism
Second
Term: The Theory-Ladenness of Observation
2006 - 2007 First Term: Scientific Realism
Second
Term: The Theory-Ladenness of Observation
University of Bristol, Department of Philosophy:
2005 - 2006 First Term: Philosophical Writing and Research Seminar
Second
Term: Scientific Epistemology and Methodology
2004 - 2005 First Term: Philosophical Writing and Research Seminar
Second
Term: Scientific Epistemology and Methodology, Philosophy of Biology
London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy:
2001 & 2003 Organised and led seminars on Structural Realism
during the Lent terms at the Department of Philosophy.
Undergraduate Tutorials:
University of Bristol, Department of
Philosophy:
2005 - 2006 First Term: Introduction to Philosophy A
Second
Term: Introduction to Philosophy B , Philosophy of Science (advanced)
2004 - 2005 First Term: Introduction to Philosophy A , Epistemology
Second
Term: Introduction to Philosophy B , Philosophy of Science (advanced)
London School of Economics, Department of
Philosophy:
2003 - 2004 Reason,
Knowledge and Values: An Intro to Philosophy
2003 - 2004 Special Topics in the Philosophy of
Natural and Social Science
2001 - 2002
Logic
2000 - 2001 Scientific Method
2000 - 2001 Scientific Revolutions
1999 - 2000 Frege and Russell
Training:
July 4th 2002 LTSN Workshop on teaching
Philosophy of Science.
Oct. 4th 1999 Induction Session for Part-time Teachers
Sept. 20-21 1999 Introduction to Teaching and Learning Workshop
Supervision:
Unofficial PhD supervision of Guillaume Maranda (PhD awarded in 2009 by
the University of Bristol, official supervisor Alexander Bird),
postgraduate and undergraduate essay supervision.
Committees:
PhD progress interviews, MA essay
supervision, Finals essay tutor, Graduate Studies Committee,
Staff-Student Committee, etc.
FUNDING:
Post-doctoral:
2011 - 2015 German Research Foundation (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft): 'A frame-theoretic investigation of
unification and reduction in scientific theories'.
2008 - 2011 German Research Foundation (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft): 'A frame-theoretic investigation of
the dynamics
of scientific theories, their conceptual systems and their realistic
reference'.
2004 - 2007 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Juan de la
Cierva Programme, elected for a 3-year postdoc, [NB: I did not take up
this post and went to Bristol instead].
Doctoral Scholarships:
LSE Research Studentship 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2002-2003.
MISCELLANEA:
Other Work Experience:
1999 – 2000 House of Commons,
Research Assistant (intern) for Richard Burden (Labour MP).
1990 – 1992 Cypriot National Guard, Cyprus, Cryptographer for
the Telecommunications Division
Volunteer Work:
Dec 2001 and Jan 2002 London School of
Economics, Chaired debates of the Goldman Sachs Foundation Winter
School for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Languages:
Fluent in English and Greek; intermediate
French; elementary German
REFERENCES:
Main: Prof. Stathis Psillos (Athens), Prof.
Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf), Prof.
John Worrall (LSE)
Others: Prof. Alexander Bird (Bristol), Prof. Nancy Cartwright FBA
(LSE), Dr. Helena Cronin (LSE), Prof. Steven French (Leeds), Prof.
Donald Gillies
(UCL), the late Prof. Peter Lipton (Cambridge), Prof. Michael Redhead
FBA (LSE).
