Marie Curie Individual Fellow

University of Leeds

Biography

I am Seamus Bradley. I am currently a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Leeds. My interests are in Epistemology, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Science and Logic. My Marie Curie project is on “ Imprecise Probabilities as a Model of Rational Belief”.

Before Leeds I was an assistant professor at the University of Tilburg Philosophy Department. And before that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy. I completeted a philosophy PhD at the London School of Economics in 2012. My thesis title was Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making. The rest of my academic life is laid bare in my CV.

Interests

Formal Epistemology
Decision Theory
Philosophy of Science

Education

PhD in Philosophy, 2012

London School of Economics

Recent Posts

Is there a moral/environmental argument against having children?

Kevin Zollman started an interesting discussion on twitter recently. Lots of people got involved and the discussion inevitably got a bit unfocused and multi-threaded. So I thought I’d try to write up what I thought about it all, building on what others also said in response to Kevin. Here’s Kevin’s original post: I’ve noticed that in discussion of the carbon output of various activities, almost never do people talk about the carbon output of having children.

Seamus Bradley

November 19, 2020

Quiz Rounds Three

Here are some more quiz rounds for your video chat quiz nights. For the numbers round, the questions were correct at the time I wrote this. I can’t guarantee that they remain true (although I’m pretty confident that 5,6 and 10 will remain true in the future). Questions Film round Which film stars all of the listed actors? (Note that actors are not necessarily listed in the order they are listed in the film).

Seamus Bradley

August 10, 2020

More Quiz

Here are some more quiz rounds. I should say that I’ve tried these out a couple of times, but they might still be too hard. Questions Shakespeare or not? In this round, you have to say whether the following quotes are written by Shakespeare or not. How do I love thee, let me count the ways Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practise to deceive Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir’d his overthrow.

Seamus Bradley

July 15, 2020 quiz

Quiz Rounds

Lockdown has rapidly increased the number of video chat quizzes that people are doing. I quite enjoy writing quiz questions, so here are some quiz rounds I wrote. Feel free to use them for your quizes. I don’t guarantee that all the answers are correct, but I’m reasonably sure that I’ve not made too many mistakes. I’ll put answers at the end, so that you can play along. This is the first of several posts along these lines.

Seamus Bradley

July 10, 2020

New Paper: Scientific Disagreement

Here’s something I’m going to try to do from now on. When I have a new paper coming out, I’ll write up a little comment on how the paper came about and what it says. Here’s the first such post. Naftali Weinberger and I have a new paper coming out in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A. It’s called “Making Sense of Non-factual Disagreement in Science”. I thought I’d write something about how the paper came about.

February 14, 2020

Projects

Imprecise Probability Models of Rational Belief

This project explores Imprecise probabilities as a model for rational belief.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Pick the Sugar

October 7, 2020 13:00 — 14:30

Seamus Bradley

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Coherence, Learning and Invariance: Three Desiderata for Formal Epistemology

Rational credence should be coherent in the sense that your attitudes should not leave you open to a sure loss. Rational credence …

August 12, 2020 10:15 — 11:00 Munich (Online)

Seamus Bradley

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Model Migration: Philosophers as Mediators

What are philosophers for? Why bother doing philosophy? In this talk I’ll provide one answer to these questions, at least for …

October 30, 2019 15:15 — 17:00 University of Leeds

Seamus Bradley

Featured Publications

A Counterexample to Three Imprecise Decision Theories

There is currently much discussion about how decision making should proceed when an agent’s degrees of belief are imprecise; …

Seamus Bradley

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Modelling Inequality

Econophysics is a new and exciting cross-disciplinary research field that applies models and modelling techniques from statistical …

Karim Thébault, Seamus Bradley and Alexander Reutlinger

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