Verhaegh

Sander Verhaegh studied Political Science in Nijmegen and Philosophy in Nijmegen, Groningen, and Sheffield. He received an NWO 'Duurzame Geesteswetenschappen' grant to conduct a PhD project. The topic of his project is the Benacerraf Dilemma, a problem concerned with the question of how one can combine a plausible epistemology with a consistent metaphysics in the philosophy of mathematics. He is especially interested in the way naturalistic philosophers deal with this dilemma. The project will be supervised by Jeanne Peijnenburg and Igor Douven. Sanders' Masters thesis was concerned with the Duhem-Quine thesis, the idea that hypotheses cannot be tested in isolation but only in conjunction with our background theories.