Daniel Kranzelbinder is interested in how the natural world became an object of scientific inquiry, how philosophical and mathematical methods came to be the preferred tools to be applied to its study, and what that means for inquiry and understanding. His current research focuses on two areas: his first project examines how Aristotle thinks we justify making certain assumptions our explanatory bedrock (rather than other ones). His second project concerns the question of how the ancients thought we can lose trust in specific scientific propositions, methods, and systems without losing trust in science and scientific inquiry itself.

Daniel received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton in 2021. Before coming to Chicago, he was a Fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and at Humboldt University’s Center for Human Abilities in Berlin.