Prof Julie Zahle

Julie Zahle has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Bergen since 2021. Previously, she taught at the University of Copenhagen and Durham University. For four years, she was also a research fellow, visiting one month every year, at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT) at University of Helsinki. She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 2009.

Julie Zahle is specialised in the philosophy of the social sciences. Her main areas of research are social theories of practice, the individualism-holism debate, and qualitative research. During the time at SOCRATES, she will be working on how qualitative data may serve as evidence for causal and interpretive claims and the strategies that may be used to secure the trustworthiness of these claims.