I am a philosopher: a professor and University Research Chair at the  Department of Philosophy of VU Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at the African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) of the University of Johannesburg. Until recently, I was a Professorial Fellow at Arché in St. Andrews (2019-2024), and led the ERC Consolidator project 'The Social Epistemology of Argumentation' (2018-2024). I am an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) (2025-2029). Here is my CV.

My main fields of research are history and philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, social epistemology, philosophy of science, and argumentation theory. I also have general interests in medieval philosophy, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, philosophy of technology, issues pertaining to gender and race, and empirically-informed approaches to philosophy in general.

My monograph The Dialogical Roots of Deduction won the 2022 Lakatos Award. My monograph Reason and Power in Argumentation is due to appear in the second semester of 2026.

Here is the text of my inaugural lecture, where I explain my conception of philosophy and describe my intellectual trajectory. Here is a video of the lecture (it starts with an introduction in Dutch by the dean, but the lecture itself is in English).

I can be reached at c dot dutilhnovaes at vu dot nl