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Branden Fitelson
Born
(1969-08-17) August 17, 1969 (age 54)
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Alma mater
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Awards
Mellon Research Grant, WARF Fellowship, Oliver Prize
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic
Institutions
Northeastern University
Thesis
Studies in Bayesian confirmation theory (2001)
Doctoral advisor
Malcolm Forster
Doctoral students
Kenny Easwaran
Main interests
Formal epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics
Notable ideas
Computational metaphysics
Branden Fitelson (/ˈfaɪtəlsən/;[1] born August 17, 1969) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University.
He is known for his expertise on formal epistemology and philosophy of science.[2][3]
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^"Philosophy Phriday [On a Tuesday]: Video Interview With Branden Fitelson". The Daily Ant. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^"Brief Biography of Branden Fitelson". infidels.org. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
BrandenFitelson (/ˈfaɪtəlsən/; born August 17, 1969) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University....
restricted abstraction schemata to avoid such paradoxes. In 2007, Zalta and BrandenFitelson introduced the term computational metaphysics to describe the implementation...
and evolution is internally dubious or inconsistent. In a 1998 paper BrandenFitelson of the University of California, Berkeley and Elliott Sober of the...
Nostrand, New York, 1979, p. 31. [Fitelson, 2001] "New Elegant Axiomatizations of Some Sentential Logics" by BrandenFitelson (Computer analysis by Argonne...
fewer variables, and was first proven equivalent by William McCune, BrandenFitelson, and Larry Wos. MathWorld, a site associated with Wolfram, has named...
attributed to the organization of yearly Formal Epistemology Workshops by BrandenFitelson and Sahotra Sarkar, starting in 2004, and the PHILOG-conferences starting...
following names: Rich Baldwin, Eli Chiprout, Taner Edis, Ellery Eels, BrandenFitelson, Philip Kitcher, Peter Milne, Massimo Pigliucci, Del Ratzsch, Jeff...
Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism BrandenFitelson of the University of California, Berkeley and Elliott Sober of the...
(1917–1987) John Martin Fischer (born 1952) Frederic Fitch (1908–1987) BrandenFitelson (born 1969) Owen Flanagan (born 1940) Kurt Flasch (born 1930) Richard...
Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism, by BrandenFitelson & Elliott Sober Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism...
The Foundations of Conditional Probability (2008) Doctoral advisor BrandenFitelson Main interests Epistemology, decision theory, mathematical logic, philosophy...
to Detect Design (pdf file) by BrandenFitelson, Christopher Stephens and Elliott Sober. Dembski's reply to Fitelson The advantages of theft over toil:...
Western Philosophy of Religion. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54638-2. Fitelson, Branden; Sober, Elliott (1998). "Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against...
Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 6 March 2021. Fitelson, Branden; Hawthorne, James (2010). "How Bayesian Confirmation Theory Handles...
Nielsen, Kai and D.Z. Phillips. (2005). Wittgensteinian Fideism? Fitelson, Branden; Hawthorne, James (2010). "How Bayesian Confirmation Theory Handles...
lecture given at University of California, Berkeley, March 17, 2006. Fitelson, Branden; Stephens, Christopher; Sober, Elliott (September 1999). "How Not...
equation is not strictly necessary to explain events. See, e.g., Fitelson, Branden; et al. (2001). "How Not to Detect Design–Critical Notice: William...
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