Duygu Uygun Tuncمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Duygu Uygun Tunc is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where she has been teaching since September 2023. She is also affiliated with the Society of Fellows and holds the position of Harper-Schmidt Fellow. Her academic journey includes a dual PhD from Heidelberg University in Germany and the University of Helsinki in Finland, which she completed in October 2020 with her dissertation titled 'Communication and the Origins of Personhood'. Her research spans multiple dimensions of epistemic value in scientific research, investigating what makes individuals good researchers, groups good scientific collectives, epistemic systems good scientific communities, and research procedures good empirical studies. She works extensively on intellectual virtues in science, scientific communities, experimental methodology (including testability, theory choice, and underdetermination), and applied philosophy of science (addressing the replicability crisis, science policy, and scientific norms). A central question guiding her work is how the social nature of scientific inquiry can best be utilized to advance scientific knowledge. Her publications from 2019-2024 demonstrate a consistent focus on the intersections of philosophy of science, epistemology, and values in science. Her work often examines distributed cognition in scientific communities, the nature of scientific expertise in contemporary research environments, and the relationship between scientific methodology and social values. A notable trend across her publications is the exploration of how scientific knowledge production has become increasingly social and collaborative, requiring new conceptual frameworks to understand epistemic responsibility in team science. Marie Curie Actions Fellowship for 'Extended Scientific Virtue' project Dr. Uygun Tunc currently teaches 'Science and Values' (PHIL 23404/33404) at the University of Chicago, examining debates about the value-free ideal of science and the relationship between scientific objectivity and social values. She is actively working on a series of articles on values in science and her first book manuscript on scientific expertise, which develops a novel conception addressing distributed epistemic labor and technological extension of epistemic processes while maintaining notions of epistemic responsibility. She maintains a blog on the epistemology of science where she explores topics like trust and criticism in scientific communities.
