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Gregor E. Bös

Welcome to my academic website.

  1. CV
  2. Research
  3. Teaching
  4. Tools
  5. About

Knowing through Scientific Models (Leuven)

M.A. level course for the module Advanced Epistemology, 2026/27. 12 x 3h lecture with seminar. Syllabus

Continental and Phenomenological Philosophy of Science (Leuven)

M.A. level course for the module Advanced Phenomenology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, KU Leuven, 2025/26. 12 x 3h lecture with seminar. Syllabus

Evaluated 8.9/10 (n=22).

Introduction to Philosophy of Science for Social Scientists (Tilburg)

B.A. level course, Tilburg University, 2024/25. 12 x 2h lecture. Syllabus

Block Seminar Is there a scientific world picture - and if yes, how many? (Münster)

Teaching appointment at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at Münster University, 2024/25. 4 x 6h seminar. Syllabus

Workshops in ‘Data Driven Philosophy’ (Utrecht; Düsseldorf)

3-day Hackathon event organised with Max Noichl. Keynotes by Gregor Betz and Charles Pence. Carried out with funding through the Dutch Research School in philosophy (OZSW) at Utrecht University.

A shorter version featured as a ‘satellite workshop’ at the 2025 GAP conference in Düsseldorf. Keynotes by Catherine Herfeld and Adrian Wüthrich.

Further teaching experience

Seminars

  1. German for Reading: Philosophical Texts (2023, KU Leuven, 12 x 2h)
  2. Epistemology I (King’s College London, Seminar Leader)
  3. Introduction to Philosophy, Epistemology setion (King’s College London, Seminar Leader)
  4. Methodology (2 years; King’s College London, Seminar Leader)
  5. Belief and Decision under Uncertainty (2 years; King’s College London, Seminar Leader)

Guest Lectures

  1. Husserl on the Crisis of Science (2025, Tilburg University)
  2. Quantitative Approaches to History of Philosophy of Science (2025, OZSW Doctoral School)
  3. Quantitative Approaches to Philosophy (2024, 2025, Tilburg Univertsity, in ‘Methodology’ course)
  4. Phenomenological Approaches to Philosophy of Medicine (2022, King’s College London)

Thesis Supervision

I have had the pleasure to examine more than a dozen M.A. theses at KU Leuven and to supervise the following M.A. projects:

Ongoing

  1. A project on phenomenological front-loading in phenomenological psychopathology
  2. A project on the knowability paradox in Husserl’s theoretical philosophy

Completed

  1. Science and the Essence of Transcendental Subjectivity. A Husserlian Intervention in the Scientific Realism Debate. 2026 (awarded with the Mercier Award for that year’s best thesis in the M.A. programme)
  2. How can Husserl’s life-world function as a universal horizon if it is always encountered as a cultural-historical world shaped by sedimented meanings?, 2026