Finnur Dellsén
Philosophy professor at the Universities of Iceland, Inland Norway, and Oslo. Mostly here for philosophy of science, epistemology (formal and social), and metaphilosophy.
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- @boruttrpin.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Philosophical Quarterly. We had both written on how inference to the best explanation could work with uncertain evidence. So we teamed up to test some suggestions for how to do that using computer simulations: academic.oup.com/pq/article/d...
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénFinnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénHelen Longino giving the first Annual Institute of Philosophy and Duke University Research Talk at the University of Iceland! The talk was titled “Why Center Interaction? (In science and elsewhere)”
- A weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci doi.org/10.1017/psa....
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénCurious why my latest paper left one notable astrobiologist "unpleasantly surprised"? Follow the link and you might just find out! #philsci #philsky #astrobiology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- I just found out that this paper, co-authored with James R. Beebe, is now out and freely available at Philosophy of Science. #philsky #philsci #xphi doi.org/10.1017/psa....
- We show, among other things, that scientists' views about various forms of scientific realism are best predicted by their views on scientific progress -- as opposed to, for instance, their views on the epistemic status of current theories, the no-miracles argument, or the pessimistic induction.
- And we argue, on that basis, that the debate about scientific progress should be seen as central to the various debates about scientific realism.
- Tomorrow at U. of Iceland: James Beebe talks about how and ehy to make epistemic autonomy reflective. #philsky english.hi.is/research-tal...
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénThis is hilarious, and makes a good point.
- This paper of mine is now officially published, a mere four years after it was accepted at Philosphers' Imprint. #philsky #philsci #philpapers journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...
- In the paper I argue for the heretical view that there is a way in which accommodated data provides more support than predicted data. How could that possibly be right? Read the paper to find out. (It's fully open access.)
- Happy to have a chapter (coauthored with Insa Lawler, @insar.bsky.social, and James Norton) in this excellent and totally open access volume on philosophical methodology. #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HORAPA-2
- Very exciting workshop in Reykjavik in October, organized by @oscarw.bsky.social. Please spread the word and/or consider submitting an abstract. #philsci #philsky #hps philevents.org/event/show/1...
- New paper now forthcoming in PPR, co-authored with Bob Beddor. Argues that inquiry, especially in science, needs to be construed as a more social/egalitarian endeavor: the point of inquiring is often to confer epistemic benefits on others. #philsky #philsci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- I wasn't able to make thismone open access. Preprint available here: philpapers.org/archive/BEDI...
- New paper forthcoming in Analysis on methodological pluralism! Co-authored with the rest of the "Philosophical Meth. Lab" (Sam Baron, Tina Firing, and James Norton)! #philsky #philsci #metascience academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
- And although we frame the argument as focusin on methods in philosophy specifically, it easily generalizes to other disciplines, and indeed to any systematic research.
- #Gaza is often described as an open-air prison. That analogy is no longer accurate: prisoners are not systematically shot, bombed, and starved to death. Gaza is now an open-air death camp.
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénNew issue, new Editors' Choice article (free to read): Finnur Dellsén, ‘Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?’ Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hps
- Many good and interesting points made here, including the final point about research papers soon being written by AIs, reviewed by AIs, and then subsequently summarized for us by AIs. At some point we'll need to rethink the current model of the ~10k word research article. #philsci #philsky
- Reposted by Finnur DellsénHave you ever wanted to visualize how belief polarization might occur in scientific communities? Then check out this simulator, based on the model developed by @cailinmeister.bsky.social and @jamesowenweatherall.com in their (2018) paper on polarization #philsci #philsky #metasci
