Rate My Professor Joeri Witteveen

Witteveen has secured several prestigious grants, including the Sapere Aude Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the project "Tackling the Conservationist’s Dilemma: towards a pluralist philosophy of taxonomy for species conservation" (2023-2026), where he serves as research leader. He is also principal investigator for the Semper Ardens Accelerate Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for "Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment" (2025-2029). Earlier, he was Principal Investigator of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) VENI grant for "The Nature of Naming and the Naming of Nature" (2017-2022) and co-Principal Investigator for "Productive Ambiguity in Classification" (2018-2021) with collaborators from Arizona State University. His key publications include "Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time" (2024, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science), "Teaching philosophy of science that matters" co-authored with S. Green (2023, European Journal for Philosophy of Science), "Consensus and Scientific Classification" with B. Sterner and A. Sen (2022, Knowledge Organization), "Biological markets, cooperation, and the evolution of morality" (2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science), and "Linnaeus, the essentialism story, and the question of types" (2020, Taxon). He serves as Associate Editor of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences and on the editorial boards of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Acta Biotheoretica.