CONTACT: kantdebo at gmail dot com
NEWS:
- Part II: Who? and Part III: How? of our “Triptych on Empirical Philosophy of Mathematics”, co-authored with Benedikt Löwe, are now published!
- My chapter “The Hidden Use of New Axioms” is now published in the volume The Palgrave Companion to the Philosophy of Set Theory!
- My thesis Pragmatic Insights into Set-Theoretic Independence – Exploring Disagreement and Agreement Among Practitioners has been published with Vittorio Klostermann. (Acknowledgements, Contents, and Introduction available.)
- My paper on Hamkins’ multiverse view and set-theoretic practice is out now – and it’s open access!
I work on questions in the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and (social) epistemology. My recent projects explore deep disagreement and peer disagreement within scientific communities, as well as the epistemic significance of value judgements in scientific discourse. My area of expertise is the set-theoretic community.
As a Post-Doc, I’ve been conducting research and teaching at the University of Hamburg. I am also the scientific coordinator of the CIPSH-Chair Diversity of mathematical research cultures and practices (DMRCP), held by Prof. Dr. Benedikt Löwe. DMRCP is a research network bringing together scholars from various disciplines working on the empirical philosophy of mathematics.
In my PhD thesis, I analysed the practical dimension of the independence problem in set theory. I earned my PhD in philosophy from 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, I gained valuable insights into the philosophy of set theory and set-theoretic practice through two research stays abroad: 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).
Prior to that, I studied mathematics – focusing on set theory and logic – at the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University, and the University of Potsdam. My studies were supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).