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Dr Joe Morrison

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Joe Morrison

Dr Joe Morrison

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Dr Morrison works on topics in the philosophy of science (evidence, holism, scientific realism) and in naturalised epistemology (reasoning / inference, psychologism, methodological debates). 

He is currently writing about logical and mathematical knowledge, about perception and hallucination, and about the philosophical aesthetics of electronic dance music

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  • j.morrison@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3231

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • General Philosophy of Science
    • Anything to do with evidence (prediction, confirmation, explanation), pragmatic features of theory choice (‘loveliness’ etc.), (ir)rationality of science, holism.
    • Scientific realisms: abundance-theories vs. minimalism, fictionalism and Inference to the Best Explanation.
    • Science as social knowledge.
    • ‘Scientism’ and anti-science attitudes.
    • Natural kinds and social kinds.
  • Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
    • Mental fictionalism / eliminativism
    • Inference and reasoning
  • Quine, Naturalism and Naturalised Epistemology
    • Quine’s naturalism, Quine’s holism, Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment
    • Indispensability arguments
  • Methodology
    • (Anti-)psychologism in philosophy, in epistemology, in logic.
    • Philosophical methods: a priori knowledge, intuitions.

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  • Director of the British Philosophical Association
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