Anna-Maria Eder

Anna-Maria A. Eder is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosophy at the KU Leuven where she works in the research group “Formal Epistemology” led by Igor Douven. She is also a Visiting Doctoral Researcher in the research group „Formal Epistemology” led by Franz Huber at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Anna-Maria studied philosophy at the Universities of Salzburg, Austria, and Konstanz, Germany. She graduated in philosophy at the University of Salzburg with a MA thesis on inclusive logic in 2007. Currently she is doing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Leuven under the supervision of Igor Douven (KU Leuven) and co-supervision of Franz Huber (University of Konstanz) and James Joyce (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Her PhD thesis is on the assessment of scientific theories linked to decision theory. In her thesis she assumes that the epistemic value of a scientific theory depends on the aspired epistemic aims, such as truth, informativeness, simplicity, coherence, unification, and explanatory power. Anna-Maria’s primary research areas are general philosophy of science, formal epistemology, and philosophical logic.