...While failure itself is not a novel philosophical topic – Deborah Mayo’s work on error informs my analyses, as does more recent work by Ann-Sophie Barwich more squarely on failure – it remains an...
Deborah Mayo is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. She’s the author of Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge (1996, Chicago), which won the 1998...
...he subsequently specialized in the philosophy and history of social science (e.g., The Descent of Political Theory: The Genealogy of an American Vocation (University of Chicago Press, 1993); Imagining the...
What is your work about? The “statistics wars” reflect disagreements on one of the deepest, oldest, philosophical questions: How do humans learn about the world despite threats of error due...
