Research within CLPS is organised around two clusters:
The philosophy of mathematical practices
The development of a descriptive, empirically informed, philosophy of mathematics, with a focus on mathematicians as fallible knowledge workers. This includes research on mathematical and scientific cultures, cultures of proof, virtues in mathematics, diagrammatic reasoning, ethnomathematics, mathematics education; mathematical, statistical and data literacy, etc.
The history and philosophy of science and scientific method
Current research centres on inter alia Isaac Newton's scientific methodology (including its development and ‘reception’), on the appropriation of Newton's natural philosophy in Europe, on ‘the’ ‘Scientific Revolution’, on mathematization in physics, on the origins and evolution of empiricism, and on the history of the demarcation problem.
Visiting scholars
CLPS welcomes visiting scholars on a permanent basis. For more information on how to apply, contact us via e-mail.
ERC grants and Marie Skłodowska Curie - Individual Fellowship' grants
CLPS is open to support applications of excellent researchers wishing to apply for ERC grants and for Marie Skłodowska Curie - Individual Fellowship' grants. For more information, contact us via e-mail.
Featured Publications
Ducheyne, S (2022), Using one’s talents in honor of God: Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731) and Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy
Ducheyne, S (2021), Geneva, Natural History and the Art of Observing
Ducheyne, S & Dhondt, F (2021), Isaac Newton Explicating His Natural Philosophical Method: A Study of the Development of the Methodological Statements in the Queries to the Opticks
Ducheyne, S & van Besouw, J (2021), Readers of the first edition of Newton's Principia on the relation between gravity, matter, and divine and natural causation: British public debates, 1687–1713
Ducheyne, S (2020), Adriaen Verwer (1654/5-1717) and the first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia in the Dutch Republic.
Rittberg, CJ & Van Kerkhove, B (2019), 'Studying mathematical practices: the dilemma of case studies' ZDM: the International Journal on Mathematics Education, 51, 5, pp. 857-868. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-019-01038-8
Hamami, Y (2018), 'Mathematical inference and logical inference' Review of Symbolic Logic, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 665-704. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020317000326
Rittberg, CJ, Tanswell, FS & Van Bendegem, JP (2018), 'Epistemic Injustice in Mathematics' Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01981-1
Lefever, K & Székely, G (2018), 'On Generalization of Definitional Equivalence to Non-Disjoint Languages' Journal of Philosophical Logic. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-018-9491-0
De Kock, L (2018), 'Historicizing Hermann von Helmholtz’s Psychology of Differentiation' Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 40-62.
Larvor, BP & Francois, K (2018), The concept of culture in Critical Mathematics Education. in P Ernest (ed.), The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today ., 5, Springer, Switserland Cham, pp. 163-176.
Van Bendegem, JP (2018), The who and what of the philosophy of mathematical practices. in P Ernest (ed.), The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today. Springer, New York, pp. 29-59.