Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the

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. Bovens is a former editor of '' Economics and Philosophy''. His main areas of research are moral and

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, philosophy of

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epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

, rational choice theory, and

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. He has also published work, of some controversy to the anti-abortion movement, on issues regarding abortion and natural family planning methods of contraception.Professor Luc Bovens
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Biography

Bovens attended the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, studying Social Sciences, before moving to the

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. Here he completed an MA in Sociology, an MA in philosophy and a PhD in philosophy in 1990. He was a research assistant in the

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in Belgium, before gaining a professorship in the department of philosophy at the

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in 1990. Bovens was Director of the Philosophy, Probability and Modeling (PPM) research group with Stephan Hartmann at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

, Germany from 2002 to 2005, and an editor of '' Economics and Philosophy'' from 2002 to 2007. He was a professor in and the head of the department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the

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2004 through 2017. In 2018 Bovens joined the Philosophy Department at the

as a professor, and core member of the Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) Program.

References

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Books

*''Bayesian Epistemology'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (with Stephan Hartmann) *''Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science'', Routledge, 2007 (edited with Stephan Hartmann and Carl Hoefer)

Articles

*"The Rhythm Method and Embryonic Death", ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', 32 (2006), pp. 355–56. :Article reviewed in ''

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