College: Hughes Hall
Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga
Thesis topic: Predicting the Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
Research Interests
My research focuses on medical epistemology, particularly conceptual and methodological questions about medical inference, and the intersection of values and epistemic concerns in medical artificial intelligence.
Publications
2020. "What is Interpretability?" Philosophy & Technology (With Tyler Brunet and Eyal Fisher) [download]
2020 "Data-dredging Bias" In Catalogue of Bias (with Bennett Holman and John Ioannidis)
Selected Talks
Nov 2021 "Assessing the Consequences of P-hacking using Expected Utility and the Argument from Inductive Risk." The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Baltimore, USA
Jul 2021 "Integrating Mechanistic Evidence for Predicting Medical Effectiveness." The 8th Biennial Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice Conference, East Lansing, USA
Aug 2019 "Expected Utility, Inductive Risk, and the Consequences of P-hacking." Bayes by the Sea Conference, Ancona, Italy
Aug 2019 "Expected Utility, Inductive Risk, and the Consequences of P-hacking." The 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
Jun 2019 "Inductive Risk, Expected Utility, and the Consequences of P-Hacking in Medical Research." The 8th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, Paris, France
Jun 2019 "Inductive Risk, Expected Utility, and the Consequences of P-Hacking." The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Jun 2019 "Etiological, Symptom-Based, and Pathophysiological Approaches to Disease Classification." The Canadian Philosophy Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Jun 2017 "Inductive Risk and Extrapolation in Medicine." The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Conference, Toronto, Canada
May 2017 "Inductive Risk and Extrapolation in Medicine." The 7th Annual Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference, Dallas, USA
Jan 2014 "A Tracking Theory of Prediction." The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Undergraduate Supervising
2020/21
Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences
2019/20
Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science
2018/19
Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science
Philosophy and Scientific Practice
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics and Epistemology (Faculty of Philosophy)
Logic (Faculty of Philosophy)
2017/18
Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science
Logic (Faculty of Philosophy)