Duygu Uygun Tunc is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from Heidelberg University (Germany) and the University of Helsinki (Finland) in October 2020 with the dissertation Communication and the Origins of Personhood. Duygu’s research focuses on scientific methodology in the social sciences, the role of intellectual virtues and vices in scientific inquiry, social aspects of scientific knowledge and the properties of epistemic systems. A key question that guides her research is how the social nature of scientific inquiry can best be utilized to the advancement of scientific knowledge. Duygu’s work has been disseminated in philosophy, psychology, and metascience journals such as Synthese, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Theory & Psychology, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and she was awarded two major postdoctoral research grants from the European Union’s Marie Curie Actions for individually designed projects on extended virtues in science and hypothesis testing in social sciences.
She currently works on a series of articles on the value-free ideal of science, and her first book manuscript on the topic of scientific expertise. The book develops a novel conception of scientific expertise that can make sense of certain features of contemporary science such as radically distributed epistemic labor and technological extension of epistemic processes, without sacrificing the notion of epistemic responsibility.
Website: www.uyguntunc.com
CV: https://uyguntunc.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/cv_uygun-tunc.pdf
Selected Publications
Uygun Tunç, D., Tunç, M. N. (2023). Psychology’s Reform Movement Needs a Reconceptualization of Scientific Expertise. Social PsychologicalBulletin, 18, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10303
Uygun Tunç, D. & Tunç, M. N. (2023). A Falsificationist Treatment of Auxiliary Hypotheses in Social and Behavioral Sciences: Systematic Replications Framework. Meta-Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2021.2756
Uygun Tunç, D., Tunç, M. N., & Lakens, D. (2023). The Epistemic and Pragmatic Function of Dichotomous Claims Based on Statistical Hypothesis Tests. Theory & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231160112
Uygun Tunç, D. (2023). The Subject of Knowledge in Collaborative Science. Synthese,201(3), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04080-y
Uygun Tunç, D. (2022). We Should Redefine Scientific Expertise: An Extended Virtue Account. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 12, Article 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00498-2
Uygun Tunç, D., Tunç, M. N., & Eper, Z. B. (2022). Is Open Science Neoliberal? Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691622111483
Lakens, D., Uygun Tunç, D.,& Necip Tunç, M. (2022). There is no generalizability crisis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000340
Uygun Tunç, D. (2019). Symbolically Mediated Interaction and Perspective Taking. Avant, X(3) [Special Issue: Social Cognition]. https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.2019.03.28
Uygun Tunç, D. (2019). Transformative Communication as Semiotic Scaffolding of Cognitive Development. The American Journal of Semiotics, 35(1–2), 117–154. https://doi.org/10.5840/ajs201971753
Courses
MIND I, II, III (SOSC 14100, 14200, 14300)