Jan Sprenger

Assistant Professor
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)
Tilburg University
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 13 466 3281
Email: J.Sprenger @ uvt.nl (remove spaces)

Jan Sprenger (CV) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Universitair Docent) in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University and Resident Fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS).

Before coming to Tilburg, he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Professor Andreas Bartels . He has written his thesis on the foundations of inductive and statistical inference. In the meantime, he has published a number of journal articles and book contributions, and given a lot of talks at international conferences.

Philosophy of science is Jan’s primary research area, with special focus on statistical methodology and the role of models in scientific inference. He also works in formal epistemology and rational choice theory, with special attention to group decision-making. His broader interests include the philosophy of the natural sciences, decision theory, epistemology, philosophy of language, and music aesthetics.

Recently, Jan has earned a VENI Scholarship by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), worth 250.000 Euros. This means that in the upcoming three years, Jan is scarcely involved into teaching, and that he will mainly focus on research project on theory- vs. data-based statistical methods.

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