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Psillos is the author and editor of 8 books (two of which have been award-winning) and over 120 papers and reviews in learned journals and edited books, mainly on scientific realism, causation, explanation and the history of philosophy of science. He has delivered more than 150 talks in seminars and
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and served as its first elected President (2007–2009). In the midst of the Greek socio-economic crisis he organised the 3rd congress of the European Philosophy of Science Association, in Athens, in October 2011. From 2009 to 2014, he was the editor of the journal
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Between 1993 and 1998 he was initially assistant editor and subsequently deputy editor of the
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he obtained a PhD in Philosophy in 1994 from King's College London with a thesis titled
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at the University of Athens, Greece, in 1999. Psillos was among the founders of the
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Notes to Realism and Theory Change in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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to study for an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science. Under the supervision of
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In 2015, he was classified among the 91 most cited living philosophers with public
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, at the Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method,
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Science and Realism: A Naturalistic Investigation into Scientific Enquiry
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Science and Realism: A Naturalistic Investigation into Scientific Enquiry
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in Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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on the most cited living philosophers with public Google Scholar pages
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Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation
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and the metaphysics of science. He is a notable defender of
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l’Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science
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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science
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In 2008 Psillos was elected member of 27:Greek philosopher of science (born 1965) 743:The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 492: 402:Psillos is best known for his work in 7: 455:, Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 682:Academy of Europe: Psillos Stathis 471:, Okto Publishers 2008 (in Greek). 339:. Between 1995 and 1998, he was a 25: 1447:Sociology of scientific knowledge 1442:Sociology of scientific ignorance 1395:History and philosophy of science 279:. In 2013–15, he held the Rotman 1644: 1632: 447:Logic: The Structure of Argument 384:Université catholique de Louvain 259:; born 22 June 1965) is a Greek 224: 1706:21st-century Greek philosophers 1686:20th-century Greek philosophers 1681:Alumni of King's College London 175: 836:Analytic–synthetic distinction 394:conferences around the world. 1: 776:"Interview by Federica Russo" 741:, in Zalta, Edward N. 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Psillos

Athens
University of Patras
King's College London
Contemporary philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy
Scientific realism
Thesis
Science and Realism: A Naturalistic Investigation into Scientific Enquiry
Doctoral advisor
David Papineau
Philosophy of science
Epistemic optimism
semantic realism
semantic anti-realism
natural ontological attitude
entity realism
structural realism
/ˈsɪlɒs/
Greek
philosopher of science
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
University of Athens
University of Western Ontario
Canada Research Chair
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