Ilie Parvu is an epistemologist, philosopher of science, metaphysician and interpreter of Kant. Created in 2002, its name commemorates the French philosopher, epistemologist and logician Jean Nicod (1893-1924). His honors thesis was directed by prominent American philosopher and epistemologist Wilfrid Sellars. He has written as a literary critic, epistemologist, sociology of culture analyst and philosopher. He was the father of the historian of science and epistemologist Isabelle Stengers. Witkowski describes himself as a subtractive epistemologist.