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Events:

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Research projects:

Interdisciplinary Systematic Review: mechanistic evidence and epistemic justice (UKRI 2025-27)

EBL+: New philosophical foundations for evidence-based law (Leverhulme Trust 2023-26)

Monograph:

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences Yafeng Shan and Jon Williamson: Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences, Routledge 2023. EPitSS ISBN 9780367697228

Asian Journal of Philosophy published a symposium on the book, ed. Jie Gao, including:

Articles:

Jon Williamson: Towards Science-Friendly Epistemology, in Y. Shan (ed.), Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, Springer.

Juergen Landes, Soroush Rafiee Rad and Jon Williamson: A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic in press.

Jon Williamson: The heuristic use of conditionalisation, Analysis. Doi 10.1093/analys/anaf094.

Maria Federica Norelli, Ioannis Votsis & Jon Williamson: The Interplay of data, models, and theories in machine learning, Philosophy of Science. Doi 10.1017/psa.2025.10161.

Alexandra Trofimov and Jon Williamson: Applying Evidential Pluralism to evidence-based law: EBL+, Jurisprudence. Doi 10.1080/20403313.2025.

Jon Williamson: Explanationist constraints on rational degrees of belief, Filosofiska Notiser 12(1):25-37, 2025.

Samuel D. Taylor and Jon Williamson: Evidence and Cognition, Erkenntnis 89:1927-1948, 2024. doi: 10.1007/s10670-022-00611-0

Marissa LeBlanc, Jon Williamson, Francesco De Pretis, Juergen Landes & Elena Rocca: Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: Going beyond the Ottawa Statement, Critical Public Health 34(1): 2338074, 2024. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2024.2338074

Yafeng Shan, Samuel D. Taylor & Jon Williamson: Epistemic causality and its application to the social and cognitive sciences, in Y. Shan (ed.), Alternative approaches to causation: beyond difference-making and mechanism, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 241-277. . doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0010

Jon Williamson: Where do we stand on maximal entropy? In Perspectives on logics for data-driven reasoning, eds Hykel Hosni & Juergen Landes, Springer, 2024, pp. 39-61. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77892-6_3