Niall Roe

Supervisor: Hasok Chang

Advisor: Marta Halina

Thesis topic: Philosophy of Experimentation and C.S. Peirce

Please feel free to email me at nrr32@cam.ac.uk.

For more information please visit my website, www.niallroe.com.

Selected research areas

• History and philosophy of scientific experimentation;
• C.S. Peirce;
• teleology and function in science (esp. biology);
• philosophy of statistics; and
• philosophy of law.

Publications

'Charles Peirce and Experimental Science'. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. (forthcoming)

'Trial and Error: Conceptual Development in Law and Science' A (yet untitled) paper on Susan Haack's Legal Pragmatism. (invited contribution, forthcoming).

'Metatheoretical Linguistics: A Philosopher's Guide'. Biolinguistics (with Konstantinos Voudouris, an extended review of Nefdt, R., 'The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics')

Teaching

Supervisor (Cambridge):

• HPS Part II Paper 5: Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science
• HPS Part IB: History and Philosophy of Science

Teaching Assistant:

• Formal Logic – University of Calgary

I have given invited guest lectures to undergraduate classes at the University of Calgary and the University of Cambridge, on Thomas Reid and on Charles Peirce respectively.

Selected awards and grants

Recipient of the 2024 Charles S. Peirce Society Essay Prize

I am the grateful recipient of the following funding awards:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
• Cambridge Trust Scholarship
• Rausing, Williamson and Lipton Studentship for the PhD in History and Philosophy of Science
• J. William E. Mingo Memorial Scholarship

Service and other roles

Referee:

• Synthese

Organizer (or co-organizer) of the following weekly Cambridge groups:

• HPS Postgraduate Workshop
• Pragmatism Reading Group
• Philosophy of Experimentation Reading Group
• Purpose and Progress in Science Reading Group

Conference and seminar presentations

Please see my CV.

Prior education

• BA, Philosophy, University of Calgary – 2014
• MA, Philosophy, University of Calgary – 2016
• JD, Dalhousie University – Schulich School of Law – 2019

Professional experience

I practiced law with a global law firm in my home town of Calgary, Alberta. I remain a member of good standing with the Alberta Law Society (non-practicing status).