I am interim professor of the history of philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Konstanz. My work asks how scientists can establish causal claims about systems that are complex — an economy, a climate, an epidemic — and what role non-epistemic values play in science and in machine learning.

Positions. From 2020 to 2025 I directed a DFG-funded project on the philosophical foundations of complexity economics at the Philosophy Department of the University of Cologne. Before that I was interim professor of epistemology and philosophy of science at University College Freiburg, and from 2013 to 2018 assistant professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Konstanz, where I completed my Habilitation (venia legendi in philosophy) in 2017.

Training. I hold a Licence (BSc) in economics from the University of Toulouse 1 (2000) and an MA in philosophy and economics (2001) and a PhD in philosophy (2009) from the University of Heidelberg. I have been a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2011-2013), and a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh (2016).

Start here

⋅ “Five-minutes fellow”, a talk on causal inference in macroeconomics (video, 6:50 minutes)

⋅ “What is a scientific model?”, a lecture on scientific models (video, 32:12 minutes)

Furthermore on this website: a cv, a research page (with links to written work), a list of talks and courses (with links to syllabi), and information about events that I recently organized.