PROJECTS

Scientific Knowledge Across Jurisdictions
RSE Saltire Research Awards Programme 2021

Main applicant on a Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Award for the Cross-Disciplinary Project on Scientific Knowledge Across Jurisdictions 2021-22 in collaboration with Dept of Chemistry and Dept of Law at the University of Aberdeen

Ocean and Us, PI on a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Award (2023-25)

PI on a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Award (2023-25) in collaboration with the Dept of Chemistry and Dept of Law, University of Aberdeen.

Principal Investigator on a 5-year European Research Council

From January 2016 until December 2020, I am the Principal Investigator on a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant on Perspectival Realism. Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point.

PI on a Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant

From 2012-2015 I was the PI on a Leverhulme Trust International Network grant on Kant and the Laws of Nature. Lessons from the Physical and the Life Sciences of the Eighteenth Century. The network brought together eight institutions, nationally and internationally, and run public outreach events in collaboration with the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Project Leader for a MOOC

In 2014 I was the Project Leader for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) entitled Philosophy and the Sciences, with each lecture covered by a joint team of a scientist and a philosopher and with a focus in philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of cognitive sciences. Just at its first run, the course had over 80,000 enrolments from people coming from over 200 different countries around the world. The course has been running since via the Coursera platform.

PI for an Interdisciplinary and International Research Group

I was the PI (2014-5) for an Interdisciplinary and International Research Group on Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH, Edinburgh) and hosted by the Eidyn Research Centre.