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Why Frequentists and Bayesians Need Each OtherErkenntnis 78 (2): 293-318. 2013.
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Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging TensionsMinerva 59 (3): 355-377. 2021.Interdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that r…Read more
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Evidence and Knowledge from Computer SimulationErkenntnis 87 (4): 1521-1538. 2020.Can computer simulation results be evidence for hypotheses about real-world systems and phenomena? If so, what sort of evidence? Can we gain genuinely new knowledge of the world via simulation? I argue that evidence from computer simulation is aptly characterized as higher-order evidence: it is evidence that other evidence regarding a hypothesis about the world has been collected. Insofar as particular epistemic agents do not have this other evidence, it is possible that they will gain genuinely…Read more
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Theories of Truth: A Critical IntroductionMIT Press. 1992.Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and meticulous explanations of terminology ensure that readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive general underst…Read more
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Necessary Connections and the Problem of InductionNoûs 45 (3): 504-527. 2011.
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Why Credences Are Not BeliefsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (2): 360-370. 2022.A question of recent interest in epistemology and philosophy of mind is how belief and credence relate to each other. A number of philosophers argue for a belief-first view of the relationship between belief and credence. On the belief-first view, what it is to have a credence just is to have a particular kind of belief, that is, a belief whose content involves probabilities or epistemic modals. Here, I argue against the belief-first view: specifically, I argue that it cannot account for agents …Read more
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Brandt's definition of "good"Philosophical Review 97 (3): 353-371. 1988.
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Johannes Kepler University of LinzInstitut Für Philosophie Und WissenschaftstheoriePost-doctoral Fellow
Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
Areas of Interest
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Science, Misc |