Jon Williamson
@jonwilliamson.uk
Philosophy of science, medicine, AI, & law
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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...
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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November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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...
This new paper puts forward a counterexample to orthodox Bayesianism - the "red faces" example: academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
The heuristic use of conditionalisation
Abstract. I provide an example in which Bayesian conditionalisation fails to validate plausible claims about rational permissibility. The example suggests
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November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This new paper puts forward a counterexample to orthodox Bayesianism - the "red faces" example: academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
13 November 2025: workshop on Qualitative Evidence in Systematic Review, University of Manchester. All welcome.
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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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October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
13 November 2025: workshop on Qualitative Evidence in Systematic Review, University of Manchester. All welcome.
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Online talk, 21 October. Miriam Solomon (Temple University). How to be an Evidential Pluralist. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
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October 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Online talk, 21 October. Miriam Solomon (Temple University). How to be an Evidential Pluralist. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
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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'
September 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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'
Online talk, 29 September. Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh). An argument framework for evidence synthesis and evidence-to-decision analysis. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
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September 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Online talk, 29 September. Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh). An argument framework for evidence synthesis and evidence-to-decision analysis. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
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
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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July 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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
21 July, 3-4.30pm. Rosa Runhardt (Radboud) & Jon Williamson (Manchester). Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
jonwilliamson.uk
July 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
21 July, 3-4.30pm. Rosa Runhardt (Radboud) & Jon Williamson (Manchester). Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
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
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
jonwilliamson.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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
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
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
jonwilliamson.uk
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
A nice introductory podcast on EBM+ by the UK Centre of Excellence on in-silico Regulatory Science and Innovation @afrangi.bsky.social : www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Unveiling Evidence-Based Medicine Plus and Mechanistic Reasoning
What is Evidence-Based Medicine Plus? This podcast episode explores the transformative power of computational modelling and simulated clinical trials in medical innovation. Discover the significance o...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A nice introductory podcast on EBM+ by the UK Centre of Excellence on in-silico Regulatory Science and Innovation @afrangi.bsky.social : www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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A very nice conference on the pros and cons of EBM: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/eviden...
Evidence-Based Medicine Reconsidered - The Center for Philosophy of Science
Cathedral of Learning Rooms 1008 and 1117, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA, 15260 (In-person only) The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement began in the 1980s, reached its peak perhaps in …
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April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A very nice conference on the pros and cons of EBM: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/eviden...
Some very welcome respite from trade wars: Progic 2025 at CMU www.cmu.edu/progic2025/h...
Home - Progic 2025 - The 12th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic - Carnegie Mellon University
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April 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Some very welcome respite from trade wars: Progic 2025 at CMU www.cmu.edu/progic2025/h...
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
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
jonwilliamson.uk
March 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
A series of online talks on Evidential Pluralism - all welcome: jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism
Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic
jonwilliamson.uk
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A series of online talks on Evidential Pluralism - all welcome: jonwilliamson.uk/mosep
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AI is that drunk bloke who's always in the pub, jumping into other people's conversations and talking absolute bollocks.
February 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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Newly published: Perspectives on Logics for Data-Driven Reasoning, edited by Hykel Hosni and Jürgen Landes. Springer, 2025. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning
Provides a state-of-the-art presentation of the role logic can have in making the most of the current opportunities, while making explicit the challenges
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January 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Newly published: Perspectives on Logics for Data-Driven Reasoning, edited by Hykel Hosni and Jürgen Landes. Springer, 2025. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
The Reasoner (an interdisciplinary gazette for research on reasoning, inference and method) has a new format: thereasoner.org
The Reasoner
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January 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Reasoner (an interdisciplinary gazette for research on reasoning, inference and method) has a new format: thereasoner.org
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....
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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January 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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....
Just arriving on my first day of a new job at Manchester university. Very excited to be joining the philosophy department here.
December 16, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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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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/...
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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December 11, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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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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...
Deadline for abstracts is December 15. I cannot derive your probability of getting in, but you should submit anyway :)
www.cmu.edu/progic2025/c...
Call for Papers - Progic 2025 - The 12th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic - Carnegie Mellon University
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December 6, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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...
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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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.
November 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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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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!
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November 23, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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
go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj