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Saúl Pérez-González @saulpg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣CFP Topical Collection: New Directions for Evidential Pluralism Journal: European Journal for Philosophy of Science Submission deadline: 30 June 2027 More info: link.springer.com/collections/... @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @jonwilliamson.uk #philsci

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New Directions for Evidential Pluralism

Papers on the scope of Evidential Pluralism in science and practice. Across disciplines—from the biomedical and social sciences to economics and ...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 03/02/2026

A new paper with Jurgen Landes and Soroush Rafiee Rad: A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic. Available free until March from this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mYJscCqwz...

We show that while standard first-order inductive logic is not decidable, a large class of inferences in objective Bayesian inductive logic is decidable. Decidability is achieved by reducing the general inference problem to a quantifier-free problem. We show that for any inference, if the quantifier-free reduction of the premisses is satisfiable, then the original inference is decidable. We go on to show that Bayesian networks offer the potential to provide a computationally tractable inference procedure for objective Bayesian inductive logic. We also consider inferences with infinitely many premisses and explore some properties of the logic.

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 03/02/2026

Rani Lill Anjum - Combining evidence for establishing causality. Online talk, 23 February 2026, 3-4.30pm UK time. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Jon Williamson’s research pages: philosophy of science, medicine, AI and law; epistemology; metaphysics; logic

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 12/01/2026

Upcoming online talks on Evidential Pluralism: Lindley Darden, Rani Lill Anjum, Caterina Marchionni, Isabel Hanson, Nancy Cartwright, Jacob Stegenga. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Jon Williamson’s research pages: philosophy of science, medicine, AI and law; epistemology; metaphysics; logic

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Elena Popa @elenapopaphi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I am happy to be part of the organization of the next Causality in the Sciences conference in Sevilla, focusing on cases from medicine. Mark your calendars for October 8-9th 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: March 8th. More details here: eventos.us.es/142286/secti...

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Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine (CauseMed)

This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences, broadly construed, welcoming philosophical, methodological, and scienti...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 27/10/2025

13 November 2025: workshop on Qualitative Evidence in Systematic Review, University of Manchester. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/conferences/...

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Qualitative evidence in systematic review

Jon Williamson’s research pages: Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 13/10/2025

Online talk, 21 October. Miriam Solomon (Temple University). How to be an Evidential Pluralist. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

1/3 Full house in Aula Baratto at Ca' Foscari University for Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025. Morning sessions include a symposium chaired by @mjbuedo.bsky.social on 'Pros and Cons of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences'

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 01/09/2025

Online talk, 29 September. Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh). An argument framework for evidence synthesis and evidence-to-decision analysis. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 22/07/2025

Many thanks to Jie Gao, Rosa Runhardt, Erik Weber and Michael Wilde for a very nice symposium on the book Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences. Both the book and most of the papers are available open access. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky #philsci

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Book Symposium: Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Yafeng Shan & Jon Williamson)

Evidential Pluralism in Social Sciences by Yafeng Shan and Jon Williamson. Routledge, 2023.In this book, Shan and Williamson contend that Evidential ...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 10/07/2025

21 July, 3-4.30pm. Rosa Runhardt (Radboud) & Jon Williamson (Manchester). Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 23/06/2025

Online talk, 30 June. 3-4.30pm. Federica Russo (Utrecht). How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 20/05/2025

On 16 June, an online talk by Phyllis Illari (UCL). Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 28/03/2025

14 April, 3-4.30pm UK time. Online talk. Alexandra Trofimov (Manchester). *How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation*. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

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Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

AI is that drunk bloke who's always in the pub, jumping into other people's conversations and talking absolute bollocks.

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 22/01/2025

The Reasoner (an interdisciplinary gazette for research on reasoning, inference and method) has a new format: thereasoner.org

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The Reasoner

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 22/01/2025

How should we evaluate whether a law is effective? We can't conduct blinded trials that randomise a law to individuals, so orthodox evidence-based evaluation methods fail. My colleague Alexandra Trofimov and I argue for an approach based on Evidential Pluralism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Applying evidential pluralism to evidence-based law: EBL+

Evidence-based law seeks to make best use of evidence to assess the effectiveness of laws and regulations. The question arises as to how exactly to make best use of evidence. This paper argues that...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 16/12/2024

Just arriving on my first day of a new job at Manchester university. Very excited to be joining the philosophy department here.

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Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you protest against the destruction of our planet, you are more likely to be arrested in Britain than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 06/12/2024

CMU is hosting the 2025 Progic Conference on combining probability and logic. This year's focus: Theoretical Approaches to Learning and Learnability Deadline for abstracts is December 15. I cannot derive your probability of getting in, but you should submit anyway :) www.cmu.edu/progic2025/c...

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Call for Papers - Progic 2025 - The 12th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic - Carnegie Mellon University

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 23/11/2024

Here's a start to a mathematical philosophers starter pack. I'm having a hard time keeping track of who is here these days. Apologies if I missed you. Let me know if you want to be added or removed, or if you know anyone else who should be on here.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you! go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

SciSci starter packs! Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5 The first one can be found here: go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD Please nominate or self-nominate with an example work. Please share! #AcademicSky #SciSci #SciPol #metascience

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 12/11/2024

Should explanatory considerations constrain the strengths of our beliefs? Advocates of inference to the best explanation would say yes, but I put forward some doubts in a short paper here: www.filosofiskanotiser.com/Williamson.pdf #philsky

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 02/11/2024

The deadline for these two postdoc positions is approaching. One job for someone with expertise in evidence review and another for a philosopher of science:

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 15/10/2024

Please circulate: we're hiring a postdoctoral research associate with expertise in philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. Apply here: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... A 2nd postdoc job, for someone with expertise in evidence review and research methods, coming soon.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

The Reasoner is a valuable institution, I read most issues. This one interviews Jon Williamson, the long time editor, and Alexandra Trofimov on evidential pluralism . Sadly the newsletter is leaving Kent due to closure of Philosophy but it's good to see Milan University Press taking over. #philsky

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 10/06/2024

This Friday we consider the importance of philosophy to higher education and society, and we celebrate the contribution of the Kent philosophy department. All welcome. www.kent.ac.uk/philosophy/c...

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Celebrating Philosophy at Kent (1965-2024)

The conference will be held on 14 June 2024 at Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 at the University of Kent.

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 22/04/2024

We are holding a workshop to celebrate the achievements of the Kent philosophy department and to mark its demise. In person or online. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/conferences/...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 02/02/2024

Sadly, the University of Kent has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. 58 of us staff face redundancy, in order to fund new hirings in areas that attract more international students.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

#BonfireOfTheHumanities News Courses including Anthropology English, Music and Audio Technology, Philosophy and Art History under threat at the University of Kent Canterbury and Medway. Health and Health Care also threatened. The University blames, among other factors, the impact of #Brexit.

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Nine courses could be ‘phased out’ at university facing financial problems

Nine courses, including journalism and art history, could be phased out at the University of Kent as a consultation is launched.

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · 11/12/2023

Slides and videos from The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties workshop organised by Deborah Mayo: errorstatistics.com/2023/12/08/1...

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Working on something related to Causation in Epidemiology and Public Health? Submit to EpiCause 2024: Causality in Epidemiology, May 2-4 in Linz. I am excited to be one of the keynotes! 400 word abstracts due Dec 11th. www.jku.at/en/institute... Please share across disciplines #philsci #episky

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