Teaching
Courses taught at LSE over the last few years:
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Science
Evidence, Objectivity and Policy (parts)
Reason Knowledge and Values (parts)
Fallacies of Reasoning (parts)
Research Seminar in Philosophy of Natural Science
Summer School Teaching:
First LSE-Tsinghua Workshop for Philosophy of Social Science: ‘Evidence and Policy: The Case of Climate Change’, Tsinghua University, Beijing, September 2013, 5 Lectures.
Vienna International Summer University 2013: ‘Climate Studies’. University of Vienna, July 2013, 5 lectures.
International Summer School on Philosophy, Probability and Physics, Universiät Konstanz, August 2005, 2 lectures.
PhD Students:
Charles Beasley: Dissolving the Logical Problem in Non-Human Animal Mindreading Research [working title] (in progress).
Margherita Harris: Assing Uncertainy [working title] (in progress)
James Wills: The Gibbs Paradox [working title] (in progress)
Joe Roussos: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty [working title] (in progress)
Nicolas Wüthrich: Robustness, Evidence, and Uncertainty An exploration of policy applications of robustness analysis (October 2017).
James Nguyen: How Models Represent (April 2016).
Chris Blunt: Hierarchies of Evidence in Evidence Based Medicine (December 2015).
Jacob Bjorheim: The Philosophy of Finance (July 2014).
Andrew Goldfinch: Evolutionary Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations (April 2013).
Stanislav Larski: Simplicity in Model Selection: Formal Methods and Scientific Realism (April 2013).
Seamus Bradley: Rational Decision-making on the Basis of Non-Linear Models (January 2013).
Dean Peters: Scientific Realism (January 2013).
Foad Dizadji-Bahmani: Probability and Reductionism in Statistical Mechanics (March 2012).
Bengt Autzen: Probability in Evolutionary Biology (July 2011).
Sheldon Steed: Otto Neurath's Positivism (January 2011).
Jeremy Howick: The methodology randomised clinical trials (July 2008).
Peter Ainsworth: The Structure of Scientific Theories (April 2008).
Matteo Morganti: Empiricism, Ontology, and Experimental Metaphysics (November 2007).
Gabriele Contessa: Models as Fictional Entities (July 2007).