Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Post-Doc, Philosophy and Moral Sciences

About

Nathalie Gontier holds a PhD in philosophy of science (evolutionary epistemology) which was awarded by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

She has been a research assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (Belgium); a pre-doctoral research fellow for the Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg (Austria); and a postdoctoral research fellow for the Fund for Science and Technology (Portugal), while being a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the Universidade de Lisboa.

She has currently been awarded a Marie Curie Outgoing Research Fellow grant and is connected to both the division of Palaeontology 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).

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 organised 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

For more information and full references to publications, please check out the attached CV.

Contact Information

Homepage: http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/members/nathalie/index.shtml