CONTACT: kantdebo at gmail dot com
NEWS:
- I’ll give a talk at the Forcing Fest in Oslo next year. Looking forward to it!
- I’ve been awarded the Förderpreis des Landkreises Konstanz zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses for my thesis!
- My thesis will be published in Studies in Theoretical Philosophy, Vittorio Klostermann.
- New project: I’m writing a short book about set-theoretic independence (in German, to appear in the essentials series of Springer Spektrum).
I am currently employed at the University of Hamburg, where my tasks include research, teaching, and the scientific coordination of the CIPSH-Chair Diversity of mathematical research cultures and practices, which is held by Prof. Dr. Benedikt Löwe.
I work on questions in the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and (social) epistemology. Recent projects include work on deep disagreement and peer disagreement in scientific communities and the epistemic significance of value judgements in scientific discourse.
My area of expertise is the set-theoretic community. In my PhD thesis, I analysed the practical dimension of the independence problem in set theory. I got my PhD in philosophy at the University of Konstanz, where I was a member of the Forcing Project. The thesis was supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carolin Antos and Prof. Dr. Karl-Georg Niebergall (Humboldt University Berlin).
During my doctoral studies, two stays abroad provided me with valuable insights into the philosophy of set theory and set-theoretic practice: in 2019, I was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Irvine (host: Penelope Maddy), and, in 2017, at the Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques in Paris (host: Mirna Džamonja). Before that, I studied mathematics, in particular set theory and logic, at the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University, and the University of Potsdam. My studies were funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).