Stathis Psillos
Stathis Psillos | |
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Psillos in 2016 | |
| Born | Efstathios Psillos 22 June 1965 Athens, Greece |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Patras King's College London (MSc, 1990; PhD, 1994) |
| Thesis | Science and Realism: A Naturalistic Investigation into Scientific Enquiry (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Papineau |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Scientific realism |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario University of Athens |
| Main interests | Philosophy of science |
| Notable ideas | Epistemic optimism Defence of semantic realism about scientific theories and criticism of semantic anti-realism about scientific theories Criticism of the natural ontological attitude Criticism of entity realism Criticism of structural realism |
Stathis Psillos (/ˈstɑːθɪs ˈsɪlɒs/; Greek: Ευστάθιος (Στάθης) Ψύλλος; born 22 June 1965) is a Greek philosopher of science. He is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario. In 2013–15, he held the Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
In 2015, he was classified among the 91 most cited living philosophers with public Google Scholar pages.