Epistemology

Broad interests

I was raised as a scientist, insofar as my parents would always ask questions about the world, and seek rational answers.

I am in awe with the fact that there just is something, rather than nothing. Furthermore, the complexity of what exists: the stars, elements, DNA, my thoughts; is astonishing. The scientific quest to explain the world is thrilling. To me, it is part of the beauty of human existence. To put it bluntly, I would not know what to do with myself, if I did not try to comprehend my world.

Thus, scientific and philosophical endeavours go hand in hand for me. With linguistics, logic, neuroscience, psychology and social sciences, today's science posseses a way of addressing topics, which exclusively belonged to the realm of philosophy before. We, as humans, may ask scientific questions about our minds, language and reasoning.

These are the kind of questions which I am specializing in. I study in parallel the following two questions:
  1. How do humans comprehend the world?
    • question of biological processing of information: senses and internal biological signaling.
    • question of cognitive processing: structure of language, structure of thoughts.
  2. How do scientists create knowledge about question 1?
    • if scientific knowledge must rely on reproducible experiments, how can we create scientific knowledge about irreproducible phenomena, such as subjectivity?
The fields of knowledge that I have encountered along my path are: