Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence
A weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
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Scientific Progress, Astrobiology and the Pursuit of Knowledge | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Scientific Progress, Astrobiology and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Curious why my latest paper left one notable astrobiologist "unpleasantly surprised"? Follow the link and you might just find out! #philsci #philsky #astrobiology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The landscape in #Iceland is just endlessly beautiful 🥰
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Lava, lagoon and life...
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Canadian Socialist in Alberta
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Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaborating, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Philosopher, curious about how we reason and make sense of science.
Assistant professor at Uni Ljubljana, PI at Uni Maribor.
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The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNC Greensboro
I do research on topics in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and meta-philosophy.
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Philosophy professor at the Universities of Iceland, Inland Norway, and Oslo. Mostly here for philosophy of science, epistemology (formal and social), and metaphilosophy.
https://philpeople.org/profiles/finnur-dellsen
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Philosopher working on theories of explanation, understanding consciousness and AI (http://daniel-kostic.weebly.com).
One half of KOKHA (https://kokha.bandcamp.com/album/mental-health)
"A minor marginalised philosopher writing in the early twenty-first century"
Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP
I was once suspended from Twitter for defending animal rights...
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Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack:
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Prof of Metaphysics of Science & Head of School of Arts at University of Bristol.
I run, hike, take photos, drink craft beer, and eat my veg.
www.ttahko.net
・@FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow @UQAM
・Philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; bioethics; data ethics.
・Runner, amateur tango dancer, vinyl collector, nature lover.
yasminhaddad.com
Philosopher of Neuroscience, PhD (HPS), MS (Neuro). Associate Professor, Philosophy, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western Institute for Neuroscience @UWO. Webpage: jacquelineannesullivan.com
Philosopher of Science, PhD, MD. Dean’s Professor and Chancellor’s fellow, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine. she/her
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~rossl/
Philosopher of science in Helsinki
Philosopher of biology at University of Leeds
occasional blogger at https://philosomama.blogspot.com/
Philosopher working on causality and causal reasoning, science and values, philosophy of medicine. Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Philosophy of Science, University of Seville. https://philpeople.org/profiles/elena-popa
I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
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Professor of Philosophy. Mainly animal/environmental ethics and Mary Midgley.
Author of Mary Midgley: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2020): https://tinyurl.com/Mary-Midgley & Mary Midgley on What Matters: Conversations on Science, Ethics, and Nature (2026).
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