Project description

Discovery is essential to natural science. But what conditions need to be fulfilled for scientists to legitimately announce a discovery? The book will address this all too neglected question and engage in detail with the recent emergence of AI-assisted discovery. The book will highlight challenges for the reward system of science springing from AI-assisted discovery in particular.

Short bio

I’m associate professor of philosophy of science at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. My research in general philosophy of science focuses on the theory-evidence relationship, theory choice, prediction, explanation, and discovery. I use the history of science and other empirical methods to complement the philosophical toolbox. My book Theoretical Virtues in Science: Uncovering Reality Through Theory (CUP, 2018) is a culmination of that work. I also have an interest in meta-philosophy both with regards to philosophy of science and other areas of philosophy. From 2016-2019, I was the PI of the research group on Intuitions in Science and Philosophy, which focused on the (prima facie strange) practice of using intuitive judgements as evidence, both in science and philosophy, and in particular in thought experiments in physics and acceptability judgments in linguistics.