Mike Stuart previously worked as an Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at NYCU in Taiwan. Currently he is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. Mike received his PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Toronto in 2015, and has since spent time as a researcher in Pittsburgh, Cambridge, Geneva, Zurich, Tübingen, Bielefeld, and London. Besides traditional philosophical methods, he also draws on qualitative, quantitative, and historical approaches. His work focuses on scientific imagination: what it is, how it’s taught, how it’s learned, when it’s used, how it’s evaluated, and what role it plays in scientific progress (broadly construed). He is also interested in the tools that scientists use to extend and focus the imagination, including artificial intelligence, models, thought experiments, narratives, visualization, and computer simulations.
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