Before moving to Groningen, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Her primary research interests are in general philosophy of science, moral psychology and philosophy of economics. Here she discusses the philosophical term of art ‘robustness’ in philosophy of science, de-idealisation, methodologies in science and epistemology, Robert Hudson’s scepticism and realism vs anti-realism. She then discusses norms, descriptive norms and finally her views on x-phi. Autumn creeps in, leaves are falling, thoughts start moving across the cooling earth…