Dr Milena Ivanova

Dr Milena Ivanova is a philosopher of science interested in the relationship between science and art, how aesthetic values influence scientific pursuits, and the role of creativity and the imagination in scientific discoveries. She has also strong interests in the development of conventionalism and pragmatism. She studied History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens, before moving for her PhD to the University of Bristol. There she was awarded a fellowship from the British Society for Philosophy of Science as well as Royal Institute for Philosophy Jacobsen Fellowship. Currently Dr Ivanova is a Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies and Graduate Tutor at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Cambridge, she lectured at the History and Philosophy of Science Unit at the University of Sydney and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy. She is the author of Duhem and Holism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, and the co-editor of The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, published by Routledge in 2020. Dr Ivanova is working on a project on scientific experimentation, investigating how aesthetic values enter in the construction, evaluation and reception of experiments. She is editing a book on the Aesthetics of Experiments and working on a monograph titled Beautiful Science.