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:

• Nicolas Wüthrich: Models in Economics [working title] (in progress).

• 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).