Summary of research
Felipe Romero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He obtained his PhD in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program, Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2016). He studied Philosophy (B.A.) and Computer Science (B.Sc, M.Sc.) at University of Los Andes. Before coming to Groningen,he was a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University.
His research falls in the domains of philosophy of science, social epistemology, and philosophy of cognitive science. He works primarily on understanding how the social organization of research activities affects their epistemic outcomes, and he also has projects on causation and explanation in cognitive science, and knowledge ascriptions. He explores these topics supporting conceptual analysis with empirical literature, case studies, and computational models. He currently teaches courses on social epistemology of science, philosophy of neuroscience, and analytic existentialism.
Expertise
Philosophy
