Professor Jacob Stegenga

Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality and philosophical problems in medicine and biology. Prior to joining Cambridge he taught in the United States and Canada, and he received his PhD from the University of California San Diego. He is the author of Medical Nihilism and Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine, and he is currently writing two books: one on the sciences of sexual desire, and the other on the central role of justification in philosophy of science.

While in Hannover, Stegenga will be focusing on his new book on the central role of justification in philosophy of science. The aim of this book is to place justification and justificatory practices at the centre of several important concepts and debates in general philosophy of science. The book includes chapters on values in science, scientific progress, norms of scientific assertion, fast science, scientific credit, and pursuit worthiness.