Studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Eindhoven (1964-7) and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (1967-71)

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEO A.F. KUIPERS

Biographical Notes

Theo A.F. Kuipers (b. Horst, Limburg, NL, 1947) studied mathematics at the Technical University of Eindhoven (1964-7) and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (1967-71). In 1978 he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Groningen, defending a thesis on inductive logic (Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation, Synthese Library, vol. 123, 1978). The supervisors were J.J.A. Mooij and A.J. Stam. From 1971 to 1975 he was deputy secretary of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. In 1975 he was appointed Assistant Professor of the philosophy of science in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen; in 1985 he became associate professor and full professor since 1988. He married Inge E. de Wilde in 1971. A synthesis of his work on confirmation, empirical progress and truth approximation, entitled From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism, appeared in 2000 (Synthese Library, vol. 287). A companion synthesis of his work on the structure of theories, research programs, explanation, reduction, and computational discovery and evaluation, entitled Structures in Science, appeared in 2001 (Synthese Library, vol. 301). The works he has edited include What is Closer-to-the-Truth? A Parade of Approaches to Truthlikeness (PoznaĔ Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 10, 1987). He also edited, with Anne Ruth Mackor, Cognitive Patterns in Science and Common Sense. Groningen Studies in Philosophy of Science, Logic, and Epistemology (PoznaĔ Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 45, 1995). He was one of the main supervisors of the Ph.D. theses of Henk Zandvoort (1985), Rein Vos (1988), Maarten Janssen (1990), Gerben Stavenga (1991), Roberto Festa (1992), Frank Berndsen (1995), Jeanne Peijnenburg (1996), Anne Ruth Mackor (1997), Rick Looijen (1998), Sjoerd Zwart (1998), Eite Veening (1998), Alexander van den Bosch (2001), and Esther Stiekema (2002). In one way or another, he was also involved in several other Ph.D. theses in Groningen, Amsterdam (VU and UvA), Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Ghent, Leuven, Lublin and Helsinki. During the academic years 1982/3 and 1996/7 he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study (NIAS) at Wassenaar. 504

Besides working in the Faculty of Philosophy, being Dean for a number of periods, he is an active member of the Graduate School for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) of which he chaired the research committee for a number of years. On the national level he was one of the initiators of the section of philosophy of science as well as of the Foundation for Philosophical Research (SWON) of the National Science Foundation (ZWO/NWO). During 1997- 2003 he was ‘the philosopher member’ of the Board of the Humanities of NWO. Since 2000 he has chaired the Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science. He is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Scientific Network on Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe of the European Science Foundation (ESF). His research group, which is working on the program Cognitive Structures in Knowledge and Knowledge Development, received the highest possible scores from the international assessment committee of Dutch philosophical research in the periods 1989-93 and 1994-8.

Publications

1971 0. Inductieve Logica en Haar Beperkingen (unpublished masters thesis). University of Amsterdam. 1971, 64 pp.

1972 1. De Wetenschapsfilosofie van Karl Popper. Amersfoortse Stemmen 53 (4), 1972, 122-6. 2. Inductieve Waarschijnlijkheid, de Basis van Inductieve Logica. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 64 (4), 1972, 291-6. 3. A Note on Confirmation. Philosophica Gandensia 10, 1972, 76-7. 4. Inductieve Logica. Intermediair 49, 1972, 29-33.

1973 5. A Generalization of Carnap’s Inductive Logic. Synthese 25, 1973, 334-6. Reprinted in: J. Hintikka (ed.), Rudolf Carnap (Synthese Library, vol. 73). Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977.

1976 6. Inductive Probability and the Paradox of Ideal Evidence. Philosophica 17 (1), 1976, 197-205.

1977 7. Het Verschijnsel Wetenschapsfilosofie, Bespreking van Herman Koningsveld, het Verschijnsel Wetenschap. Kennis en Methode I (3), 1977, 271-9. 8. A Two-Dimensional Continuum of a Priori Probability Distributions on Constituents. In: M. PrzeáĊcki, K. Szaniawski, R. Wójcicki (eds.), Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences (Synthese Library, vol. 103), pp. 82-92. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977.