Project
Complexity, transdisciplinarity and epistemological unity
This project aims to highlight some structural epistemological features common to complexity sciences, given that a minimal epistemological unity of science seems necessary to foster discussion between different scientific fields and to enable fruitful transdisciplinarity.
Bio
Theoretical physicist by training (PhD in Theoretical Physics, 2018), I defended in 2024 a PhD thesis in philosophy of science and epistemology under the supervision of Anne Staquet (University of Mons) and Dominique Lambert and Olivier Sartenaer (University of Namur). My work focuses on comparative aspects between natural and social sciences in a unitary epistemological perspective. My topics of interest include (but are not limited to): epistemology of models and modelling, transdisciplinary epistemological structures of scientific theories, the scientific demarcation problem and its links to scientificity and pseudo-scientificity issues.
Publications
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J. Attard, Epistemological status of rationality principles in the social sciences: a structural invariance criterion. In: Michal Oleksowicz (ed.), Proceedings of the Hypothesis in science International Conference, The 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Oct. 2022. Springer.
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J. Attard, Vers un mod`ele unitaire de la scientificité, Paris, Editions Mat´eriologiques.
