Employment
- January 2013 – present
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich
Education
- 2004 – 2007
BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Warwick 2:1
- 2007 – 2008
MA in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Bristol – Title: Structuralism and Geometry. Distinction
- 2008 – 2012
PhD in Philosophy, London School of Economics – Title: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making. Passed with minor corrections. Examiners: James M. Joyce and Jon Williamson
Publications
- Laplace’s Demon and Climate Change (2013) with Roman Frigg, Hailiang Du and Leonard A. Smith. Grantham Institute on Climate Change discussion paper 103
- Probabilistic forecasting: why model imperfection is a poison pill (2013) with Roman Frigg, Reason L. Machete, Leonard A. Smith. New Challenges to Philosophy of Science, Edited by Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Gregory Wheeler, Wenceslao Gonzalez and Thomas Uebel. Springer
- Dutch book arguments and imprecise probabilities (2012) Probabilities Laws and Structures, Edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stoeltzner and Marcel Weber. Springer
- Scientific uncertainty: A user’s guide (2011) Grantham Institute on Climate Change discussion paper 56
- A literary approach to scientific practice (2011) Metascience 20, pp. 363-367
Talks
Sophisticated imprecise choice Joint work with Katie Steele
- November 30, 2012 Choice Group workshop London School of Economics
Are reduced complexity models only useful because humans are stupid?
- October 05, 2012 – October 06, 2012 Explanation, models and simulation in social and behavioural sciences University of Barcelona
There is no disagreement about disagreement
- July 06, 2012 – July 08, 2012 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association University of Stirling
Non probabilistic chance?
- July 05, 2012 – July 06, 2012 British Society for the Philosophy of Science University of Stirling
Can free evidence be bad? Joint work with Katie Steele
- June 06, 2012 Formal Epistemology Festival Universität Konstanz
- January 26, 2012 Rationality and Decision meeting MCMP LMU Munich
- November 02, 2011 Choice group LSE
Robustness does not warrant confidence in climate models
- October 06, 2011 European Philosophy of Science Association University of Athens
- July 07, 2011 British Society for the Philsophy of Science University of Sussex
- May 26, 2011 Philosophical issues in climate change workshop University of Bristol
Problems with imprecise decisions are unavoidable
- May 07, 2011 London-Berkeley graduate philosophy conference University of California, Berkeley
Decision making with climate models Joint work with Roman Frigg, Lenny Smith and Reason Machete
- September 22, 2010 LRR10 University of Ghent
- May 22, 2010 Modeling in the social and behaviourial sciences IHPST Paris
- February 03, 2010 Choice group seminar LSE
Vague Dutch books
- September 09, 2010 Pluralism in the foundations of statistics conference (ESF) University of Kent
- June 09, 2010 DGL10 Paris
Against probabilism
- June 09, 2009 Philosophy of Probability II LSE
