Full-time Research Professor

Personal
Born in 1979 on Georg Cantor's birthday. Living in Ghent.

Degrees
- Master in Philosophy (UGent, 2000)
- Postgraduate in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (UGent, 2001)
- Doctor in Philosophy (UGent, 2006), Dissertation on the natural-philosophical methodology of Galileo, Huygens and Newton

Research
- Research Professor since 1 October 2011. Working on the research project Revisiting Eighteenth
-Century Scientific Methodology: Historical cum Systematic Study of Scientific Methodology after Newton.
- Areas of expertise: Isaac Newton's philosophia naturalis and its 18th-century legacy, The Scientific Revolution, History and Philosophy of Scientific Methodology, William Whewell, representation and models in science, Early Modern Philosophy (Bacon, Hooke, Boyle, Newton, Locke, Reid, ...)
- See, furthermore, publications and activities.

E-mail / Website
steffen.ducheyne{at}vub.ac.be [replace {at} by @] / www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/SD

Office hours
By appointment (room 5B425). Phone: +32.2.629.26.50. Fax: +32.2.629.36.74.