Fons Dewulf received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Ghent University. Prior to joining HKUST, he was an FWO post-doctoral fellow at Ghent university and a post-doc researcher at KU Leuven and Tilburg University.

Research Interests

In his research, professor Dewulf investigates the emergence of anglophone philosophy of science as an independent subdiscipline of professional philosophy and the impact of this emergence on the methods and aims of philosophy (of science) and on its relation to the sciences and society.

Representative Publications

Dewulf, Fons. (2024) “Disciplinary Bounds and Their Upkeep: A Framework to Capture 20th Century Philosophy in its Context.” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/734066

Dewulf, Fons. (2024) “The Failed Reception of the Voluntarism in Logical Empiricism.” In: Verhaegh, S. (ed.), From Hamburg to Harvard, from Jena to Yale: Euro-American Migration and the Development of Postwar Philosophy, 211-232. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.

Dewulf, Fons. (2022) “Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation.” Philosophy of Science, 89, 585–603. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.45

Dewulf, Fons (2021) “The Institutional Stabilization of Philosophy of Science and its Withdrawal from Social Concerns after the Second World War.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (5), 935-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1848794

Dewulf, Fons. (2018) “Revisiting Hempel's Contribution to Philosophy of History.” Journal of the History of Ideas 79 (3), 285-406. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2018.0023