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Research Profile

I work in the following areas:

Foundations of Statistical Inference

• Bayesian vs. frequentist inference
• the inferential role of stopping rules
• interpretation of hypothesis tests
• objective Bayesianism
• model-based vs. data-based statistical inference

General Philosophy of Science and Formal Epistemology

• confirmation of scientific theories
• epistemology of scientific models
• scientific explanation
• Popper's critical rationalism and modern Bayesianism

Probability, Decision Theory and Group Epistemology

• foundations of Probability
• paradoxa of probabilistic decision theory
• judgment aggregation
• group decision-making (expertise, deliberation)

Science and Public Policy

• objectivity and value freedom
• the scientist as policy advisor
• precautionary principle