Lukas Verburgt has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He received this award for his research into the changes in the way scientists and philosophers define the nature and boundaries of their own field. For this innovative research he received the award, an amount of 15,000 euros, and an artwork. The KNAW Early Career Award will be awarded for the third time this year.
The prize is intended for researchers in the Netherlands who are at the start of their career and have innovative, original research ideas.
Lukas M. Verburgt (1989)
Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW) and guest researcher with Prof. Dr. James McAllister at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University
Lukas Verburgt is a versatile expert in the field of the (knowledge) history of science and philosophy. His research focuses in particular on changes in the way scientists and philosophers define the nature and boundaries of their own field and what this says about how they envision its past and future. He is also interested in the role of the unknowable: what is seen as scientifically or philosophically unknowable and how does this relate to ideas about what constitutes good science or philosophy and about the mutual relationship between these disciplines?
The presentation of the KNAW Early Career Award will take place during a festive gathering in the KNAW Trippenhuis on 14 February 2022.
