Samuli Reijula is a philosopher and cognitive scientist interested in how science works, how it could, and how it should work.
Reijula works as an Associate Professor in
The general aim of his research is to better understand scientific problem-solving: Science is the humanity’s most successful problem-solving system, and the primary source of epistemic authority in modern societies.
He views & models science as a distributed cognitive system, “problem-solving writ large.” How does that system function at different levels of analysis ranging from individual scientists to research groups and scientific communities?
And how should it function - what are the social, cognitive, and institutional preconditions of well-functioning scientific research?
Introduction to be added in 2026
Introduction to be added in 2026