Philosophizing the Scientist

Towards a framework for understanding what a scientist is and how to become one

With the ultimate goal of being able to articulate learning theory for a “scientist education,” a dedicated lens in science education on how to prepare students to become scientists, I am pursuing fundamental philosophical work on what it means to be a scientist in the first place, and how one might transition to assume that identity. I wish to develop educational frameworks to better explain to teachers what scientists are, separate from our ordinary understanding of scientists as implied by the nature of science (NOS).

My philosophical approach is heavily inspired by Robert Brandom’s flavor of inferentialism, and his usage of Kantian and Hegelian ideas to explicate reasoning.