Igor Douven
Philosopher, cognitive psychologist and formal epistemologist
About Igor Douven
Born 1963. Igor Douven is an epistemologist, university teacher, researcher, psychologist and philosopher.
Igor Douven (born 1963) is a Dutch philosopher, cognitive psychologist and formal epistemologist, known for coordinating the research group Formal Epistemology: Foundations and Applications at the KU Leuven.
In 2010 he became Endowed Chair in philosophy at the University of Groningen. In 2013, he joined the "Probability, Assessment, Reasoning and Inferences Studies" research group at Paris 8 University.
Selected publications "Wouldn't It Be Lovely: Explanation and Scientific Realism", Metascience 14, 3 (2006) 331–361. (Review Symposium on the second edition of Inference to the Best Explanation, with James Ladyman, Igor Douven and Bas van Fraassen.)
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