Primary research

- History and philosophy of probability theory, logic and mathematics

- The frequency interpretation of probability (Mill, Ellis, Venn, Boole)

- Issues in the axiomatization of mathematical probability (Hilbert, Von Mises, Kolmogorov and Khinchin): idealization and abstraction, formalism versus intuitionism etc.

- Issues in the development of (mathematical) logic, symbolic algebra and abstract algebra (Peacock, Babbage, Gregory, Ellis, Boole, W.R. Hamilton, Cayley).

Secondary research

- Philosophy of technology (Heidegger, Simondon, Stiegler etc.)  

- Topics in recent (French) metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics and statistics (Deleuze, Serres, Badiou) 

Teaching

2014-2015
- Thomas Kuhn Revisited, Department of Philosophy
- Philosophy, science and public affairs (with Huub Dijstelbloem), Department of Philosophy
2014

- Recent philosophical history of chance (BA-completion Philosophy of Science), Department of Philosophy

- Normative and empirical approaches (in philosophy of science), Department of Philosophy

2013-2014

- Foucault: knowledge, language and power (with M. Leezenberg), Department of Philosophy

- Philosophy of science,  Department of Philosophy

2012-2013

- Science and politics of classification and standardization: 'experimental metaphysics' (BA-completion Philosophy of Science), Department of Philosophy 

- Philosophy of science, Department of Philosophy
2012          

- Introduction to philosophy of science, ASW
- Zeker Weten: Wetenschapsbeoefening in de technologische samenleving', Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
- Introduction to philosophy: thesis, Department of Philosophy    

2011-2012    
- Philosophy of science, Department of Philosophy

Publications (primary research)

 

Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory. Historia Mathematica, 40 (4), 423-454. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086013000451

 

Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn. Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 29 (3), 184-195  www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17498430.2014.889269

 

John Venn's hypothetical infinite frequentism and logic. History and Philosophy of Logic, 35 (3), 248-271. http://www.tandf-online.com/doi/full/10.1080/01445340.2014.913351#.U2v3r3Y_gYg

 

The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory. Historia Mathematica. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2015.01.003. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086015000191

 

Duncan F. Gregory, William Walton and the development of British algebra: 'algebraical geometry', 'geometrical algebra' and abstraction. Annals of Science. doi: 10.1080/00033790.2015.1025844. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2015.1025844#abstract

 

Robert Leslie Ellis, William Whewell and Kant: the role of Rev. H.F.C. Logan. Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics(forthcoming)

 

Duncan Farquharson Gregory and Robert Leslie Ellis: second generation reformers of British mathematics. Under review.

 

The place of probability in Hilbert's axiomatization of physics, ca. 1900-1926. Revised and resubmitted

 

John Venn on the foundations of symbolic algebra. Under review.

 

On Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin's paper 'Ideas of intuitionism and the struggle for a subject matter in contemporary mathematics'. Under review.

 

Venn on Mill on inductive and syllogistic logic. Unpublished manuscript.

Publications (secondary)

 

Flows, fluxes and monads: the conceptual madness of experimental social ontology, Parallax, 20 (1), 2014. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13534645.2014.865327

 

Deleuze's Badiou, Political Studies Review, 11 (2), 2013. http://onlinelibrary-.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1478-9302.12016_23/abstract

 

A plea for technological activismat the European borders?, Science as Culture, 21 , 2012. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09505431.2012.662218

Techno-philosophy of the pre-individual, Cultural Politics.Forthcoming, 2014.

 

'Real izations: notes on chance', Present Forever:55 Dutch Contemporary Artists, exhibition catalogue. 2012. See:http://fatform.com/projects/present-forever/

 

'"We, philosophers, are not allowed to sleep!", review of: Alain Badiou'sSecond Manifesto for Philosophy , Krisis , 2, pp. 56-61. 2011. http://www.krisis.eu/#htmlpart=articles.php?FirstName=Lukas&Prefix=&LastName=Verburgt

 

'How to hide from existence?', Krisis , 1 , pp. 65-69. 2011. http://www.krisis.eu/#htmlpart=articles.php?FirstName=Lukas&Prefix=&LastName=Verburgt

Professional memberships

Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.  

Appearances

 

4S/EASST Conference, Copenhagen, October 17-20, 2013, 'Design and Displacement - Social Studies of Science and Technology', paper presented: 'Gilbert Simondon on modes of existence'

Fellowships

- (2014) Predoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
  (See here for my profile and here for the description of my research project) 

Professional Memberships

- Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics

Grants

- (2014) 2500,-, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam (DIA), Amsterdam 

 

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