Dr Milena Ivanova
Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy
Researcher biography
Milena Ivanova completed her MA (2007) in the HPS department at the University of Athens, and PhD in Philosophy (2013) at the University of Bristol. Before becoming a postdoctoral fellow in the MCMP, she lectured philosophy of science in the HPS department at the University of Sydney and was a visiting fellow at the University of Queensland.
Book Chapter
Ivanova, Milena (2014). Is there a place for epistemic virtues in theory choice?. Virtue epistemology naturalized: bridges between virtue epistemology and philosophy of science. (pp. 207-226) edited by Abrol Fairweather. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-04672-3_13
Journal Articles
Ivanova, Milena (2017). Aesthetic values in science. Philosophy Compass, 12 (10) e12433, e12433. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12433
Ivanova, Milena (2017). Teaching and learning guide for aesthetics of science. Philosophy Compass, 12 (10) e12443. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12443
Ivanova, Milena (2017). Poincaré’s aesthetics of science. Synthese, 194 (7), 2581-2594. doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1069-1
Ivanova, Milena (2017). Conceptual change and the philosophy of science: alternative interpretations of the a priori. HOPOS, 7 (1), 151-153. doi: 10.1086/691140
Paternotte, Cedric and Ivanova, Milena (2016). Virtues and vices in scientific practice. Synthese, 194 (5), 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1023-2
Ivanova, Milena (2015). Conventionalism about what? Where Duhem and Poincaré part ways. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54, 80-89. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.09.004
Ivanova, Milena (2015). Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincaré's philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52 B, 114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.03.003
Farr, Matt and Ivanova, Milena (2015). Conventional principles in science: on the foundations and development of the relativized a priori. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52, 111-113. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.11.003
Ivanova, Milena (2014). Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28 (1), 105-108. doi: 10.1080/02698595.2014.915655
Ivanova, Milena and Paternotte, Cedric (2013). Theory choice, good sense and social consensus. Erkenntnis, 78 (5), 1109-1132. doi: 10.1007/s10670-012-9390-7
Ivanova, Milena (2013). Did Perrin’s experiments convert Poincaré to scientific realism?. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 3 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1086/669714
Ivanova, Milena (2011). 'Good Sense' in context: a response to Kidd. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 42 (4), 610-612. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.09.006
Ivanova, Milena (2011). Friedman's relativised a priori and structural realism: in search of compatibility. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 25 (1), 23-37. doi: 10.1080/02698595.2011.552416
Ivanova, Milena (2010). Pierre Duhem's good sense as a guide to theory choice. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 41 (1), 58-64. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2009.12.009
Conference Papers
Ivanova, Milena (2015). Poincaré’s Aesthetics of Science. The 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind, University of Warwick, 10-12 July 2015.
Ivanova, Milena (2015). Poincaré’s Aesthetics of Science. 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, CLMPS 2015, University of Helsinki, 3-8 August 2015.