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Dr Joe Morrison
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsDr 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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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.
Public outreach & key achievements
- Director of the British Philosophical Association
- Committee Member for the Analysis Trust
- AHRC Peer Review College member