Deborah Kant

Dr. Deborah Kant is a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she works on the project “Collective Knowledge in Mathematics: Proofs, Collective Justification, and Reliability”. Until 2025, she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg. Since then, she has served as the scientific coordinator of the CIPSH Chair Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices (DMRCP), advancing research in the empirical philosophy of mathematics. Dr. Kant earned her PhD in philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University of Konstanz in 2023. Her dissertation, “Pragmatic Insights into Set-Theoretic Independence: Exploring Disagreement and Agreement among Practitioners” (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2025), analyzes the social dimensions of foundational questions in mathematics, drawing on the findings of an extensive interview study. She is also one of the editors of “Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics: Univalent Foundations, Set Theory, and General Thoughts” (Synthese Library, Springer, 2019). Her international research collaborations include visits to the University of Pisa (2025), the University of California, Irvine (2019), and the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris (2017). Before her transition to philosophy, she studied mathematics from 2008 to 2015 in Berlin.