Publications and output

Paper publications

Hilligardt, H. and Wilholt, T. (forthcoming). Science and Democracy (book chapter), in: Elliott, K., Richards, T. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science.

Hilligardt, H. (2024). Science as Public Service. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14, 45.

Hilligardt, H. (2023). Partisan science and the democratic legitimacy ideal. Synthese 202, 135.

Hilligardt, H. (2022). Looking beyond values: The legitimacy of social perspectives, opinions and interests in science. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12, 58.

Academic presentations etc.

February 2026 „Norms of science communication: what are appropriate constraints?“, First Hannover-Bern Workshop on the Philosophy of Climate Science, Leibniz University Hannover

January 2026 Participation „How to spend 15 billion dollars?“- workshop London School of Economics (invited by David Stainforth)

January 2026 „Diversity and disagreement in science communication“ at IZWT-Kolloquium Wuppertal (invited by Leon Schäfer)

December 2025 „Values in communicating deeply uncertain knowledge“, Philosophy of science colloquium, Universität Konstanz (invited by Hanna Metzen)

November 2025 „Philosophie und Aktivismus“ with Tanja Rechnitzer, Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Germany Tagung, Ulm (invited by Franziska Reinhard)

„Trust in and the authority of science: Why it is worth distinguishing“. SWIP Germany Tagung, Ulm (invited by Franziska Reinhard)

September 2025 „Trust in and the authority of science: Why it is worth distinguishing“ with Hanna Metzen, Authority and Authoritarianism Conference, Milan

“Climate tipping points: deep uncertainties and values in climate science communication“ with Mathias Frisch, GAP.12, Düsseldorf

August 2025 “Should scientists communicate consensus positions, even when their view diverges?“ European Philosophy of Science Conference, Groningen

“Climate tipping points: deep uncertainties and values in climate science communication“ with Mathias Frisch, European Philosophy of Science Conference, Groningen

May 2025 “Assessing strategic communication in science: the case of climate tipping points“, PhilCliSci Workshop, St. Andrews (UK) (invited by Katharina Bernhard)

November 2024 “The concept of Legitimacy in the values in science debate“, Biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), New Orleans

July 2024 “Introducing institutional context into the inductive risk debate”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference (BSPS), York

November 2023 “Partisan science and the democratic legitimacy ideal”, Objectivity, Trust and Values in Science Workshop, Cambridge (invited by Stephen John)

March 2023 “Non-epistemic interests and the social credibility of science”, Peritia Conference, Dublin (invited by Maria Baghramian)

October 2022 “Looking beyond values”, Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference, London School of Economics

July 2022 “The democratic legitimacy of particular interests in science”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference, Exeter

September 2021 “Political Representation in Science“, European Philosophy of Science Conference, Turin

December 2020 “How to not relativize scientific claims when speaking of their politics”, Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) Conference, Online

Teaching

MA Seminar (Spring semester 2026) „Epistemologies of Ignorance“ (University of Bern)

MA Seminar (Summer Semester 2024): „Political Philosophy of Science” (Leibniz University Hannover)

MA Seminar (Winter Semester 2021/22): “Feminist Philosophy of Science” (Leibniz University Hannover)

Public events

December 2025 Panel discussion on „‚Gold Standards‘ of Science: Should Politics Meddle?“, Universität Zürich

February 2025 Speaker at „Pizza, Philosophy and Science“ event on the democratic legitimacy of science organised by „Reatch“, Bern

Reviews etc.

I currently serve as guest editor for the EPSA 2025 proceedings, to be published in the European Journal of Philosophy of Science.

I have furthermore reviewed papers for Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, the European Journal for Philosophy of Science and Synthese.