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20Of War or Peace? Essay Review of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing (review)Philosophy of Science 87 (4): 755-762. 2020.
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18The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational ReliabilityJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 55 (1): 1-28. 2023.The stopping rule for a sequential experiment is the rule or procedure for determining when that experiment should end. Accordingly, the stopping rule principle (SRP) states that the evidential relationship between the final data from a sequential experiment and a hypothesis under consideration does not depend on the stopping rule: the same data should yield the same evidence, regardless of which stopping rule was used. I clarify and provide a novel defense of two interpretations of the main arg…Read more
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9The Local Validity of Special Relativity, Part 1: GeometryPhilosophy of Physics 1 (1). 2023.In this two-part essay, we distinguish several senses in which general relativity has been regarded as “locally special relativistic.” Here, in Part 1, we focus on senses in which a relativistic spacetime has been said to be “locally (approximately) Minkowskian.” After critiquing several proposals in the literature, we present a result capturing a substantive sense in which every relativistic spacetime is locally approximately Minkowskian. We then show that Minkowski spacetime is not distinguish…Read more
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7The Local Validity of Special Relativity, Part 2: Matter DynamicsPhilosophy of Physics 1 (1). 2023.In this two-part essay, we distinguish several senses in which general relativity has been regarded as “locally special relativistic.” In Part 1, we focused on senses in which a relativistic spacetime may be said to be “locally (approximately) Minkowskian.” Here, in Part 2, we consider what it might mean to say that a matter theory is “locally special relativistic.” We isolate and evaluate three criteria in the literature and show that they are incompatible: matter theories satisfying one will g…Read more
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Evidence in classical statisticsIn Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Clayton Littlejohn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, Routledge. 2019.
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