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Jonathan Weisberg

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EDUCATION

Rutgers University
PhD in Philosophy, October 2006

Dissertation: Credence and Credibility: the Commonsense Approach to Probabilistic Epistemology

Committee: Barry Loewer (supervisor), Frank Arntzenius, John Hawthorne, and Michael Strevens (external)

University of Washington
BA in Philosophy, 2001
BA in Math, 2001

EMPLOYMENT

University of Toronto, 2006-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Epistemology, Decision Theory

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Science, Logic

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Commutativity or Holism: A Dilemma for Conditionalizers", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
  • "Locating IBE in the Bayesian Framework", Synthese, forthcoming.
  • "Varieties of Bayesianism", Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 10, eds. Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartmann, and John Woods, forthcoming.
  • "Conditionalization, Reflection, and Self-Knowledge", Philosophical Studies (2007), 135(2):179-197.
  • "Firing Squads and Fine-Tuning: Sober on the Design Argument", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2005), 56(4):809-821.
  • "Clark and Shackel on the Two-Envelope Paradox", with Chris Meacham, Mind (2003), 112(448):685-689.

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Why Explanationists and (Most) Bayesians Can't Be Friends", BSPS Annual Conference, Bristol, 2007
  • Comments on Jan-Willem Romeijn et al.’s "Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks", Formal Epistemology Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon, 2007
  • "Locating IBE in the Bayesian Framework", Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, 2007
  • "A Dilemma for Jeffrey Conditionalizers", Formal Epistemology Workshop, UC Berkeley, 2006
  • Comments on Kent Staley's "Probability in Fine-Tuning Design Arguments", Pacific APA, Portland, 2006
  • "The Case Against Representation Theorems", Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Colloquia, Fall 2005
  • "Does Conditionalization Entail Reflection?", National Postgraduate Analytic Philosophy Conference, Cambridge UK, Summer 2004
  • "Self-Knowledge and Bayesian Rationality", Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Colloquia, Spring 2004

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Referee: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Mind, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Synthese Book Library
  • Co-founder and co-organizer: Formal Epistemology Festivel, University of Kon-
    stanz, 2008; University of Michigan, 2009; University of Toronto, 2010
  • Co-organizer: Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2002, 2003, & 2004

AWARDS

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant, 2007-2010
  • Connaught Startup Grant, University of Toronto, 2006-2007
  • Travel Award, Rutgers University Graduate School, 2004, 2005
  • Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2001, 2003, 2004
  • Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, University of Washington Department of Philosophy, 2001
  • Department Fellowship, University of Washington Department of Philosophy, 2000