Short Bio
Dunja is a full professor working in social epistemology and philosophy of science at the Institute II for Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum. She serves as a co-editor in chief of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Her research topics include formal modeling of scientific inquiry (with focus on agent-based modeling), scientific disagreements and controversies, pursuit-worthiness of scientific theories, and integrated history and philosophy of science. Find more information on her academia page.
Recent Activity
2026-04-22 : Reading Group for Qualitative Grading Project
2026-05-06 : Dunja gave a talk in the Higher Seminar in Philosophy at Stockholm University
2026-05-04 : Dunja gave a talk at the Modelling in Philosophy Workshop in Stockholm on ABMs as a Philosophical Method
Current research projects
Qualitative grading (e.g., ‘very promising’, ‘quite unlikely’) is pervasive in scientific evaluations and policy recommendations by expert panels, yet its formal foundations and aggregation methods remain underexplored. This project addresses this gap by applying formal resources dispersed across formal (social) epistemology and social choice theory, developing a novel theoretical framework for qualitative judgments (grades) and their aggregation, and applying them to science.
The project is led by Thomas Boyer-Kassem (Poitiers), Dunja Šešelja (RUB) and Minkyung Wang (LMU).
Publications
This is awfully outdated and will be updated soon!
2013
- \Seselja\, Dunja and Straßer, Christian (2013). Kuhn and the Question of Pursuit Worthiness. Topoi, v. 32, pp. 9—19.
2010
- Straßer, C. and Seselja, D. (2010). Towards the Proof-theoretic Unification of Dung’s Argumentation Framework: an Adaptive Logic Approach. Journal of Logic and Computation, v. 21, pp. 133–156.
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- Wieland, Jan Willem and Straßer, Christian and \Seselja, Dunja (Unknown). Disagreements: A Dynamic and Two-Stances Model. .
2013
- \Seselja\, Dunja and Straßer, Christian (2013). Kuhn and the Question of Pursuit Worthiness. Topoi, v. 32, pp. 9—19.
2010
- Straßer, C. and Seselja, D. (2010). Towards the Proof-theoretic Unification of Dung’s Argumentation Framework: an Adaptive Logic Approach. Journal of Logic and Computation, v. 21, pp. 133–156.
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- Wieland, Jan Willem and Straßer, Christian and \Seselja, Dunja (Unknown). Disagreements: A Dynamic and Two-Stances Model. .