Main Interests
My research is in two main areas:
- philosophy of statistical inference, with some sidelines in philosophy of probability and other parts of mathematics;
- applications of philosophy of science to research policy, especially as it affects Evidence-Based Medicine.
See main interests chatty version for a 5-minute talk on my interests.
See work in progress and my teaching pages for online material.
When teaching, I specialise in philosophy of science. But more specifically, I’ve taught:
- philosophy of cosmology
- ethics
- decision theory
- philosophy of mind
- logic
- general philosophy of science, especially realism
- history of analytic philosophy
- philosophy of probability and statistics
- philosophy of medicine
- philosophy and sociology of biology
- philosophy and sociology of information technology
- exobiology
and (as one-offs) a few other areas. For more detail, see philosophy courses. Jason