I am a professor in the Philosophy Department at New York University. (More)
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:
- Commentary on Philip Kitcher's What's the Use of Philosophy?. To appear in a book symposium in Philosophia
- Grasp and Scientific Understanding, Philosophical Studies, 181:741–762. 2024
- Science Is Irrational—and a Good Thing, Too. To appear in Extreme Philosophy, Routledge, edited by Stephen Hetherington
- Why High-Level Explanations Exist. To appear in Levels of Explanation, OUP, edited by Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson
- My new-ish general audience book on science, The Knowledge Machine
- Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy
- New location for my lecture notes on Bayesian confirmation theory
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 September 2024