Biography
Blandine De Becker began her PhD in philosophy at UCLouvain at the end of 2025 as a FNRS research fellow. Her PhD focuses on the logic of vagueness and the analysis of scientific models. She holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from UCLouvain, where she specialised in logic. Her master thesis focused on Curry’s paradox and the difficulties it poses for certain justifications of dialetheism. She also obtained a Master’s degree in communication, during which she worked on the links between advertising and philosophy and on the challenges of greenwashing. Continuing this line of thinking, she worked in the renewable energy sector, notably on heat decarbonisation projects.
The project
Blandine De Becker’s research project, entitled “Towards a Trans-Model Truth: A Supervaluationist Approach to Scientific Models,” analyses scientific models, particularly environmental ones, from supervaluationist logic. Scientific models, due to the abstractions and idealizations that constitute them, are often based on binary structures that struggle to account for the complexity of the world and the phenomena they seek to represent.
The project explores the possibility of mobilising a logic with more demanding truth values in order to better account for the indeterminacy and vagueness present in these models, and to enable more precise reasoning about their components and the results they produce. The challenge is thus to better understand what models allow us to assert, and under what conditions their results can be considered robust.