Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Faculty Member, Philosophy and Moral Sciences

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Nathalie Gontier has a background in both philosophy and anthropology, and holds a PhD in philosophy of science (evolutionary epistemology).

She currently holds a part-time professorship at the Dutch Free University of Brussels (Belgium) where she teaches the English and Dutch courses on philosophy of science.

Her main research interests are philosophy of evolutionary biology (symbiogenesis, punctuated equilibrium and abiogenesis), evolutionary epistemology (the units and levels of evolution debate and hierarchy theory) and the origin and evolution of language. She has organized several conferences on these topics, which can be consulted at:
http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/coloquios/darwincolloquium/coloquiodarwin.htm
http://www.darwin2009.pt/iniciativas/Diversos/index.asp?accao=shownot&id_noticia=54
http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/eelc

Previously, she has been awarded a Marie Curie Outgoing Research Fellowship whereby she was connected to both the division of Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History (New York City, New York), and the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). The project description can be found at http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUERY=012b9bb88902:7337:75c5e375&RCN=94336
She has been a postdoctoral research fellow for the Portuguese Fund for Science and Technology while being a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the Universidade de Lisboa; a pre-doctoral research fellow for the Austrian Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg; and a Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (Belgium).

More info can be found in her CV.

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