Research

My research work is characterzied by an interdisciplinary approach joining different methods and questions from philosophy, science and the arts. 

During my education, I had occasion to do research on a number of different topics: history and philosophy of mathematics (philosophical problems of non-standard analysis, concept of mathematical revolution), philosophy of physics (probability interpretations in Boltzmann’s statistical mechanics, problem of the arrow of time), philosophy of information and AI, general philosophy of science (explanations and models in science, scientific progress, scientific objectivity), history and philosophy of biology, etc.

I developed a special interest for the interconnections between music and mathematics, as well as for the historical development of the ontology of music theory and acoustics between 16th and 20th century. 

The notion of understanding in present-day epistemology has become one of the principal objects of my philosophical investigation, about which I defend non-reductionist and non-factual ideas. This brought me to reconsider many problems and questions in the philosophy of science (understanding-based epistemology of science, understanding-based conception of scientific progress) and aesthetics (cognitive and epistemic contributions of aesthetic symbolic systems, possibility of music to transmit scientific understanding, etc.).

Currently, I'm working on the history and philosophy of robotics. In my PhD research I attempted a first historical-epistemological reconstruction of Affective Computing and Social Robotics as scientific research fields and developed a non-reductionist account of robotic emotions based on propositionality and sound. 

For my postdoctoral activities, I'm now extending this trajectory to projects about robots as epistemic tools in medicine and psychology, and about non-Western perspectives in the history and philosophy of robotics.