Davide Vecchi obtained his first degree in philosophy from the University of Bologna, Italy. After unconvincingly attempting to pursue a career in business, he has been fully lured back to the temptations of philosophy. He was very recently awarded a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he worked under Elliott Sober’s co-supervision. His main research aim is to apply the idea of the universality of selection to science by developing a variation-selection model of evolutionary epistemology that manages to make sense of the apparent progress of scientific knowledge.