I am a professor in the Philosophy Department at New York University. (More)
This semester (Fall 2023) I am teaching:
- How Science Works (undergrad)
- Philosophy of the Special Sciences (grad)
My major research interests include:
- Philosophy of science (including complex systems, scientific explanation, probability, the social structure of science)
- Philosophical applications of cognitive science (especially the psychology of concepts)
To get in touch with me:
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Department of Philosophy
New York University
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998 3559
My office is room 603 (6th floor)
Recent items of interest:
- Dynamic Probability and the Problem of Initial Conditions
- My new general audience book on science, The Knowledge Machine
- Permissible Idealizations for the Purpose of Prediction
- Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy
- New location for my lecture notes on Bayesian confirmation theory
- The Structure of Asymptotic Idealization
- My research proposal on grasp and humanistic understanding for a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship
- The Mathematical Route to Causal Understanding
- Scientific Sharing: Communism and the Social Contract
Elsewhere on the Web:
- Why Aristotle didn't invent modern science, at Big Think
- The highly effective irrationality of science, at the Brooklyn Public Library
- Talk at the Royal Institution on some ideas in The Knowledge Machine
- Keep science irrational (at Aeon; a preview of the core idea of The Knowledge Machine)
- New York Times review of The Knowledge Machine
- New Yorker review of The Knowledge Machine
- W W Norton web page for The Knowledge Machine
- Blogging Thinking Off Your Feet at the Brains blog
- Sketch of Thinking Off Your Feet on the Harvard University Press blog
- Landscape art at Gilded Birds
Last updated November 2023