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Much of my research centers on decision making and the epistemology of rational belief.  Beliefs and inferences about causation have particular significance to both areas, and I am interested in causation and causal inference. 

I am also interested in understanding social phenomena--patterns of behavior, norms, networks, communication systems--as products and conditions of complex interactions among individuals.  

I have an historical interest in the work of the remarkable early 20th-century philosopher, Frank Ramsey.

I am a member of the Center for Biology and Society, and of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity at ASU.


Selected Papers

On belief and rational degrees of belief:

   "Deliberation and Pragmatic Belief" Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology, Kim and McGrath, eds., 170-180, Routledge 2019. Published version

  "Pragmatic Interests and Imprecise Belief" Philosophy of Science, 80:758-768, 2013. JSTOR version

  "Stakes and Beliefs" Philosophical Studies 147:71-87, 2010. Published version

  "Stake-Invariant Belief" Acta Analytica 23:29-43, 2008. Published version

   "Dutch books, Additivity, and Utility Theory" Philosophical Topics 21:1-20, 1993.

   "Dutch Strategies for Diachronic Rules" PSA 1992, Vol. 1, Philosophy of Science Association.  JSTOR version

   "Is There a Dutch Book Argument for Probability Kinematics?" Philosophy of Science 47:583-588, 1980. JSTOR version

 

On decision theory:

   "Causal Decision Theory and Decision Instability" Journal of Philosophy, 116:263-277, 2019. Published version

   "Deliberation and Pragmatic Belief" Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology, Kim and McGrath, eds., 170-180, Routledge 2019. Published version

   "On Risk and Rationality" Erkenntnis, 79:1119-1127, 2014. Published version

   "Impartiality and Causal Decision Theory" PSA 1988, Vol. 1, 326-336, 1988. Published version

   "Conditional Preference and Causal Expected Utility," in Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics, Harper & Skyrms, eds., Kluwer, 1988.

   "A Foundation for Causal Decision Theory" Topoi 5:3-19, 1986. Published version

 

On Ramsey:

   "Frank Ramsey" The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2006.

   "Frank Ramsey" A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell, 2001.