Jun Otsuka
Philosopher of Science. The author of Thinking About Statistics (Routledge) and the Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory (CUP).
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- 少ない・・・？コミュ力おばけだと思ってました．
- "If you read only one book on the philosophy of statistics, make it this one. Otsuka’s compact yet comprehensive treatment (under 190 pages) provides a uniquely integrated view of the major statistical frameworks that shape modern data science and AI." crowintelligence.org/2025/03/19/s...
- Our process causation paper is published in Synthese! We propose that process causation (a la Salmon, Dowe, MDC new mechanists) can be modeled using a category-theoretic framework. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- A full-text view-only version is here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
- This is a very good book, and you can read it for free!
- All titles of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, including mine The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory, are downloadable for free till the 25th. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Thank you for sharing and recommending the book!
- All titles of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, including mine The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory, are downloadable for free till the 25th. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- It was such a great honor to host Prof. Michela Massimi’s @michelamassimi.bsky.social special lecture at the Japanese Philosophy of Science Association. Her talk was truly inspiring for thinking about a more human-centered form of science—something much needed today.
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- Thank YOU for the wonderful talk! It was such a pleasure and an honor to have you in the Japanese phil sci community. I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay!
- New paper out in Royal Society Open Science! In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian framework to model scientific practice as a whole, based on Taniguchi's theory of Collective Predictive Coding. (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- The central idea is that the scientific community can be viewed as a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm that approximates the posterior probability. (2/n)
- This perspective leads to rich and intriguing implications—for example, the importance of diversity in science, and Kuhnian paradigm shifts as phase transitions in Bayesian updating with singular models. I really enjoyed working on this project with such an inspiring team of scientists! (3/n, n=3)
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- New preprint out! We use string diagrams to quantitatively model process causality (à la Salmon) and tackle issues like the Principle of Common Cause, explanatory irrelevance, and more—turns out process causation might be cooler than you thought. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25367/
- Co-authored with my students Tomoyuki Hayashi & Tatsuya Yoshii, and my colleague Hayato Saigo. Forthcoming in Synthese!
- Précis of Thinking About Statistics rdcu.be/edlaK URL to the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- My book, Thinking About Statistics, got featured in Asian Journal of Philosophy! The book symposium hosts reviews by Elliott Sober, Jeanne Peijnenburg & David Atkinson, Hanti Lin, and Tung-Ying Wu, along with my reply. link.springer.com/collections/...
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View full threadMy replies: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I'm so grateful to the reviewers for their thoughtful critiques and to the editor, Masashi Kasaki, for this great opportunity!
- Hanti Lin: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Tung-Ying Wu: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Elliott Sober: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Jeanne Peijnenburg & David Atkinson: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Really enjoyed attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings special session on Categorical Generalizations of Conditionalization. We presented "a sheaf-theoretic reconstruction of statistical models", a joint work with Tatsuya Yoshii and Hayato Saigo.
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- Many thanks for sharing! Just to add, the preface can be read here: www.philosophy.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/junotk/mypap...
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- 残念😢
- I’ll be speaking at the CIVICA DS Seminar on Oct 30! The registration link (below) lists an outdated title & abstract. The correct one is ‘Changing Ideals of Science in the Age of AI’, where I’ll discuss AI’s impact on what science should strive to be. socialdatascience.network/fall2024/ses...
- Forgot to share it here: a new paper coauthored with my student, where we solved the grue paradox using category-theoretic statistical modeling. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Check out Elliott Sober's excellent review of my book. I'm truly honored! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I created a poster version synopsis of my book, 'Thinking About Statistics.' To be presented at JFFoS in Strasbourg next week.
- Check out the synopsis of my book, 'Thinking About Statistics'! It's translated from the Japanese version using machine translation, so it may have some translation quirks, but should convey (some of) the main idea(s) of the book. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22945/
- The book Publisher: www.routledge.com/Thinking-Abo... Amazon: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Abo... Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
